Daniel Zovatto on Playing Serial Killer Rodney Alcala in Woman of the Hour

ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Woman of the Hour star Daniel Zovatto about joining serial ender Rodney Alcala in Anna Kfinishrick’s straightforwardorial debut. Zovatto talked the character’s complicatedity, filming The Dating Game scenes, and more. Based on an incredible genuine story, it debuts on Netflix on October 18.

“The stranger-than-fantasy story of an ambitious actress in 1970s Los Angeles and a serial ender in the midst of a yearslengthy killing spree, whose lives intersect when they’re cast on an episode of The Dating Game,” says the synopsis.

Tyler Treese: I experience enjoy it’s an odd allotment where, as an actor, you’re trying to find the humanity of a character, but you’re joining such a depraved individual and one with such complicated emotions. He fair sits there sobbing sometimes instead of finishing his ends. Did you ever experience enjoy you had a filled benevolent of this character, or how was that experience?

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They wonderfilledy reoriginated The Dating Game set, which sees phenomenal in the film. How was that whole experience? Becaengage it sees enjoy a time capsule. It’s incredible.

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Thanks to Daniel Zovatto for speaking about Woman of the Hour.