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Killer Role

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Documentary, News, Dateline, Society & Culture, Society, Culture, American Crime Story, True Crime

4.6 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

An actress playing a killer in a horror film is so good, you’d almost think she’d done it in real life. Turns out she had… Dateline’s Keith Morrison takes you inside a story where fiction and reality collide.

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0:00.0	A new horror movie with a promising young star.
0:04.5	Three, two, one, action!
0:07.5	What the hell are you doing?
0:09.5	I was just using the bathroom.
0:11.0	Did you hear that noise?
0:12.0	Yes, and the power is out again, too.
0:14.0	Cut!
0:15.0	She was such a phenomenal actor.
0:16.0	I mean, it was just insane.
0:17.0	We absolutely adored her.
0:19.0	She definitely seemed to really nail it.
0:22.0	She was so good.
0:24.0	Maybe too good at playing a killer.
0:28.0	I really had a strong inkling, but that was her.
0:33.0	Who was this talented young woman?
0:36.0	I'm Keith Morrison.
0:38.0	Here at Dayline NBC, we see a lot of people pretend not to be killers.
0:42.0	But we've never had a case where the main suspect decided to play one.
0:47.0	Ready actors?
0:48.0	Action!
0:49.0	Please stop!
0:50.0	No!
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