I was at home in Australia, my agent called and I've been sort of dancing.

I was at home in Australia, my agent called and I've been sort of dancing around finding something to do in this space for many

years but hadn't found something that I was really really obsessed with.

I'm talking to the actor Eric Banna who plays the title role in Dirty John.

It's late October and he's in the last week of a four month shoot.

And she called me and said, there's this project, just hear me out out I think that was the first thing just hear

me out on this one okay there's a project and it's based on a true crime

podcast so I spend the next couple of days with you in my car listening to the

podcast which I was fascinated by and really enjoyed.

We're in Bannas trailer at the Los Angeles

equestrian center in Burbank and he's about to take a shuttle to the parking lot where they're going to film the scene of climactic violence in the eighth and final episode of the Bravo series.

In a few days he's flying home to Australia where he lives a simple life as a family man and likes to tool around in vintage cars.

But for four months he's lived inside the skin of John Mehan, a Machiavellian grifter and seducer.

I wanted to know what it was like to bring life to the road. a Machiavellian grifter and seducer.

I wanted to know what it was like to bring life to the role of a guy had spent so much time writing

and thinking about.

Now, Bann is not one of those actors who's in character every minute of the day.

He didn't go around the set demanding people

call him John and trying to swindle the grips and caters. Everyone I talked to

described him as a gentleman and the American accent he uses for Meihan

vanished between takes.

The actress Connie Britton was already signed on to play Deborah Newell,

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