Amanda Knox, Twisted Tale
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Sharon Horgan told UPI she wanted to star in "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox" because it is a nuanced family drama as opposed to a salacious true-crime saga.
Amanda Knox and Monica Lewinsky, both women involved in massive public scandals, worked together on a new project about the former's life.
"She finally honors that young person that I was and the person I am today," Knox tells PEOPLE of the actress, who helped tell the story of her wrongful murder conviction
In 2007, she was accused and convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher while they were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. Knox and her boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty of murder in 2009,
A 2009 conviction for the murder of her housemate, for which she was later exonerated, has dogged Amanda Knox, now the subject of a new Hulu series.