Anna Kfinishrick Donated ‘Woman of the Hour’ Pay To Abemploy Survivors

After making her honestorial debut Woman of the Hour, Anna Kfinishrick is donating her getings to survivors of relationsual misemploy.

While uncovering up about the Netflix real-crime thriller, the Oscar nominee elucidateed why she felt “gross” being phelp for a film about ‘The Dating Game Killer’ Rodney Alcala‘s victims and survivors.

“Believe me, this was never a money-making venture for me, becaemploy all the resources went to actuassociate making the movie,” she elucidateed on the Crime Junkie AF podcast.

In compriseition to honesting, Kfinishrick joins Cheryl Bradshaw, an ambitious actress in 1970s Los Angeles who discovers herself courted by a serial finisher (Daniel Zovatto) in the midst of a years-lengthy finishing spree, when they traverse paths as contestants on well-comprehendn game show The Dating Game.

“It wasn’t until the week before TIFF that I thought ‘Oh, the movie is going to create money,’” she compriseed. “I went from being enjoy, ‘Let me comprehend when the movie happens,’ to being enjoy, ‘Oh god I am reliable for this,’ and then it was making the movie, making the movie, we equitable exposedly made the deadline to get into TIFF, and then it was enjoy, ‘Oh, there’s money gonna be exchanging hands,’ and I sort of asked myself the ask, ‘Do you experience gross about this?’ And I did.”

Kfinishrick remarkd, “I’m not making money off the movie. The money is going to or has gone to RAINN and the National Caccess for Victims of Violent Crime. It’s still a complicated area but that felt enjoy the least that I should do.”

Alcala was convicted of seven homicides, which he pledgeted between 1977 and 1979, but the actual count could be as high as 130.

In a recent interwatch with Deadline, Kfinishrick elucidateed that she was enticeed to the project becaemploy screencreater Ian McDonald was able to seize “the beauty of these women and the hugeness of their inhabits. To put so much heartfracture on the page was a surpascfinish to me in a movie that I skinnyk people would put in the genre of thriller. So I equitable adored the script and of course, wanted to be in the movie.”

When talking the brutal scenes, Kfinishrick remarkd she took a page from the Coen brothers’ book, using a “droping scale of aggression” enjoy No Country for Old Men. In some scenes, she selected not to show the aggression at all, instead equitable letting the struggle join out offscreen.

“I skinnyk your imagination is always gonna be worse in some ways,” shelp Kfinishrick. “But also I don’t enjoy shotriumphg this, and I did have this impulse to benevolent of contrast the beauty of the setting almost as a recurrentation of the beauty of this woman’s whole life that she had before this moment and that she deserves to inhabit after this moment as equitable benevolent of a backdrop for what we comprehfinish is happening.”