It was really important to me not to show Deborah as somebody who's foolish or silly or stupid or any of those things.

First of all because that was not my experience listening to the podcast at all.

I'm talking with Connie Britton who was playing Deborah Newell in the new Bravo series

Dirty John.

The first experience that I had listening to the podcast was how terrifying this guy is

and how easy it is to be conned.

And that for me was the most chilling part

because frankly, I believe we're living in a country where we've been to some degree cons.

People are having a hard time accessing truth and values and in

in steps the con man.

Britain is best known for her role as Tammy Taylor on the show Friday Night Lights.

In Dirty John, she's a successful interior designer in an affluent area of Orange County, California.

She ignores her family's warnings about the new man in her life, marries him hastily, then

after she discovers he's been lying to her from the start, takes him back.

To me, it was a really important story to tell because I love telling stories of women trying to find their own power through whatever influences have been given to

them by their community, by their their church by the state that they live in by their family

On some level she tells me she sees the story as being about the passing down of values through generations and how women struggle

to define themselves against those forces.

To some degree your value is as much as who you are with a man.

That can be a very subtle thing,

because especially in this day and age, women,

if you're lucky, you're raised to believe that you can do whatever you want and

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