Elisabeth Moss is in great demand. In addition to "The Handmaid's Tale", she will soon also appear in the "Candy" series – as a murderer.
After "The West Wing", "Mad Men" and the still ongoing series "The Handmaid's Tale – The Report of the Maid", actress Elisabeth Moss (37) will be seen in another promising series. For "Candy", the Emmy winners will slip into the title role of the murderer Candy Montgomery, according to a report by the US website "The Hollywood Reporter".
The limited series tells the true story of the wife and mother who one day in Texas in Texas in 1980, for reasons that were initially obscure, murdered a friend from the church, Betty Gore, with an ax. The case already inspired the 1990 film "A Killing in a Small Town", for which Stephen Gyllenhaal, father of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, was responsible.
For "Candy" Moss works with an old friend. Robin Veith ("Mad Men") wrote the script for the pilot episode and acts as an executive producer alongside Moss. "I've been wanting to be an antihero for quite a while now," said a statement from Moss. "And after 'Mad Men' working with Robin again, I wanted even longer. So when she asked me if I wanted to play a Texas housewife who, as some would say, got away with a murder, I just asked : 'Where do I have to sign?'"