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I’m going to have to really think about these decisions that I’m making.’ I wish I had an understanding of the potential reflectiveness of the character on what she was doing. Marcia Gay Harden: “I wish I had a journal of Camile’s, or Dee Dee Blanchard’s, where she talked about ‘today I forced my daughter to sit back down in the chair and she wanted to walk. What questions do you still have even after playing her? It’s still very difficult to understand.” It was fascinating and yet still for me, there are so many unanswered questions. That’s when thank goodness Emily’s a little detective because she sent me all the stuff, the podcasts she had. I wasn’t paying attention so when it came out, it was electrifying to me to read this story, to read about this relationship and to try to understand what it was. I’d never heard the word Munchausen and I’d never heard of the case.
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I had friends saying, ‘You absolutely need to play this girl when the scripts come out,’ and I did. I was very fascinated by the case for a long time, this specific case, and I actually had friends who recommended the documentary to me. Were you aware of Munchausen Syndrome before this film?Įmily Skeggs: “I’m a true crime fanatic. Harden and Skeggs spoke with Showbiz Junkies about Love You To Death, which airs Saturday, Januat 8pm ET/PT on Lifetime. Gypsy Rose ultimately got a boyfriend to help her kill her mother so she could escape. Lifetime’s latest movie, Love You to Death, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Emily Skeggs, dramatizes a true crime case of Munchausen by Proxy.Ĭamile (Harden) and Esme (Skeggs) are fictionalizations of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. When the child is not actually sick and the mother is forcing her to sit in a wheelchair and take medication via feeding tube, that is a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. When a child is sick, a mother will do anything to care for him or her.
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Emily Skeggs and Marcia Gay Harden star in ‘Love You to Death’ (Photo by Courtesy of Lifetime