Between 2013 and 2017, Russian-German convicted con artist and fraudster, Anna Sorokin, pretended to be a wealthy German heiress under the name Anna Delvey. In 2017, she was arrested after defrauding or intentionally deceiving major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and acquaintances in the United States for a total of $275,000. In 2019, Sorokin was convicted in New York state court of attempted grand larceny, larceny in the second degree, and theft of services, and was sentenced to four to twelve years in prison. Sorokin was being held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and likely deported on March 14, 2022 (according to her attorney). In June 2018, Netflix and Shondaland acquired the rights to the life story of Anna Sorokin and Pressler's New York article, with plans to turn it into a television series with Rhimes serving as producer and writer. Sorokin received $320,000, which was used to pay restitution and legal fees. By early October 2019, Anna Chlumsky, Julia Garner, Arian Moayed, Katie Lowes, Anders Holm, Anna Deavere Smith, Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney, Laverne Cox, Kate Burton, Tim Guinee, Anthony Edwards, Caitlin FitzGerald, Joshua Malina, Ben Rappaport and Christopher Lowell were cast. Madeline Brewer was set to portray the role of Anna Delvey but had to pass due to scheduling conflicts. At the same time, principal photography commenced and took place in New York and Los Angeles.
An unreliable narrator is notoriously tricky, and an absolute gas to play around with in film. And yet, like so much in the series and beyond, Garner makes it look easy. Both provocative and thoughtful, it's a showstopper of a film with a dynamite cast, and one of the year's most exciting and entertaining series. What a delight it is that just when streaming is about to get snobbish and cerebral that a streaming series as confident, slick and vivacious as this comes out of the woodwork and surprises people. The series, like its titular character, promotes itself under the facade of beauty and wealth but hides behind it a story loaded with a social criticism that confronts the viewer. The legs that the series stands on really do belong to Garner, who flashes her unbelievably glamours looks as she walks into the room (or scene). That is the fun of this series, its lack of concern for being a blatantly good time.
The series stars Chlumsky, Garner, Moayed, Lowes, Holm, Smith, Perry, Kinney, Cox, Burton, Guinee, Edwards, FitzGerald, Malina, Rappaport and Lowell. The cast, especially Garner, absolutely own every second they are on screen.
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