But if we can do it right, we’d be open to it. I read it and thought, “This is brilliant. Kathy Scruggs was born on September 26, 1958 and died September 2, 2001, age 42, in Cherokee County, Georgia. These are just some of the biggest highlights of Carla Gugino's career, which proves she's an actress not just with major chops but with incredible staying power no matter who or where she's starring. MANHUNT: DEADLY GAMES: âBombinghamâ Photos. The other thing is that she did proper journalism. 'The Suicide Squad' Official Synopsis Teases a New Crew & Another Bonkers Mission, Carla Gugino on 'Manhunt: Deadly Games' and the Strange Circumstances of 'Jett's Cancellation, More > Who plays Kathy Scruggs on Manhunt: Deadly Games. MANHUNT: DEADLY GAMES is a scripted true-crime anthology series that chronicles one of the most complex manhunts on U.S. soil following the deadly terrorist attack at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. She also definitely partied, during the time that drinking and doing coke, and all of those things, really was not as much of a taboo, as it is now. We’re looking back at something with 20/20 vision. I remember this happening, but I was young and I didn’t really know the details of this story. My job felt like it was to explore as much as I was afforded, in the context of this show, why she wasn’t willing to accept her mistakes. highly-anticipated and mixed-reviewed adaptation. Note for CBS Full Episode Screeners: We are now using a separate platform to send forensically watermarked screeners to press. The show chronicles the story of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. !” But, we’re looking at this from a lens of the future. I feel very proud of that first season, and hopefully we’ll be able to make another one, or more than one, that we feel equally proud of. Also, Kathy Scruggs, the journalist who broke the Richard Jewell story, confronts her wrongdoing, on MANHUNT: DEADLY GAMES, Saturday, Oct. 31 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. I have a strong belief that you’re not trying to destroy yourself, but you’re actually looking for the light. It made me realize what a big personality she was, and how she was not afraid of attention. W sieci pojawiÅ siÄ zwiastun serialu "Manhunt: Deadly Games" podejmujÄ
cy temat zamachu w czasie Igrzysk Olimpijskich w Atlancie w 1996 roku. I think she would have checked more sources, had there been more time. Skyler Elyse as Tammy, Kathy Scruggs' (Carla Gugino) niece at her First Communion party in the anthology, Manhunt: Deadly Games in ep.208 What made you want to return to the stage and why was the character in Anatomy of a Suicide, in particular, appealing to you? The Umbrella Academy's Cameron Britton stars as Richard Jewell, a Georgian security guard who, after stopping a bombing attempt at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, has his life upended when the FBI leaks to the media he's also a suspect in the case. A security guard, Richard Jewell, discovered a backpack ⦠We don’t want to make a second season, if we can’t make it in the way that we want to, since we got to do that with the first season. Kathy Scruggs on IMDb: Movies, Tv, Celebrities, and more... Manhuntâ comes back for its second season next month on a new network, having moved over from Discovery Channel to Spectrum Originals for its follow up story, subtitled âDeadly Games,â about the hunt for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics bomber. 9. As one of the creators and creative people, it’s certainly disappointing, but people have been speaking up and asking for more, so we’ll see. GUGINO: That is an absolutely accurate description of it. I don’t know that there would be character for me in it, but I really like Sex Education. She clearly was at home in Atlanta, but wanted to be able to go further than that. She was a go-getter. There are those, as well. You’ve played so many great, fun, and memorable characters, in TV and film. collider.com Movie News And I love Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Fleabag so much. Gugino plays Kathy Scruggs, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter who got the scoop and broke the story that Jewell was a suspect. I hope that we are able to do that. The American true-crime drama show Manhunt Deadly Games released its season 2 in 2020. Television tells its latest American crime story with Manhunt: Deadly Games, the follow-up to the Sam Worthington and Paul Bettany-led Manhunt: Unibomber. Perhaps that’s because I’m hankering to do a period piece, but it was also just such a rich world that Edith Wharton crafted. Her paper required her to write in a voice of God. Christina Radish is a Senior Reporter at Collider. I was really intrigued by this woman who kept trying to get out and be able to really move forward beyond that. So, yes, Carla feels like, “My god, couldn’t you see? Sheâs played by Carla Gugino in Manhunt: Deadly Games , and sheâs played by Olivia Wilde in the Eastwood film. If not, I’m so grateful we got to do it. The true crime anthology series tells the story of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and the two main suspects in the case: Richard Jewell, played by Cameron Britton, and Eric Rudolph, played ⦠starring Tony Danza and her Manhunt co-star Judith Light. She was a really beautiful blonde, and a southern, smart lady. Between her small-screen work, Gugino also appeared in several films, including opposite Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise in the crime thriller Snake Eyes and as Chica Barnfell, a somewhat stringer young troop member whose jet-setting parents often leave her, in 1989's beloved Shelley Long classic Troop Beverly Hills. I couldn’t love it more and want to do more of it, and I hope that we will find a home for a second season and be able to continue the story because anyone who’s seen the whole first season is adamant about wanting that. What intrigued me, thematically, was the notion that everything can look a certain way, depending on the point of view you’re looking at it from, and that we all have a sense of what our truth is and it might be very different than somebody else’s. There are just so many. Comments Off on MANHUNT: DEADLY GAMES: âBombinghamâ Photos. What happened to the real Kathy Scruggs? We filmed all over England for five months, they had these exquisite gowns made, and it took place in the 1870s. Maybe we’ll be in Europe making it. Beyond her appreciation for a good horror script, Gugino has also opted for starring and supporting roles in a number of TV dramas and comedies. Also, there’s the really cool thing about just the ritual of an audience, every night being different, and sharing that moment together. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Actress Carla Gugino talks about playing Kathy Scruggs in Manhunt: Deadly Games and if Jett might continue elsewhere after Cinemax stopped making originals. Police reporter Kathy Scruggs broke the biggest story of her career in 1996, but little did she know that it would turn her life upside down. I’d love to revisit where Nan St. George might be now. I’m in rehearsals in New York for Anatomy of a Suicide, which is an exquisite play written by Alice Birch, who also writes Succession. Why doesn’t she move on to that story and start covering that aspect of it?” When you’re dealing with somebody who was a real person and who you can’t speak to anymore, you have to go with the facts. Security guard Richard Jewell is lauded as a national hero after he discovers a massive bomb at the Games and ⦠Carla Gugino mostly got her career start thanks to small screen projects, but they catapulted her to major cinematic roles — and frequently as iconic characters. October 12, 2020 by Marisa Roffman Filed under Manhunt: Deadly Games. Wardrobe, for me, is always hugely defining because it’s usually relatively early on, in the process, where you’re having your first wardrobe fitting. It’s a good question. Agent Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerld, a fresh-faced criminal profiler with the agency, faces an uphill battle in tracking the infamous criminal but also has to fight against the bureaucracy of the Unabom Task Force (UTF), of which he is a ⦠It’s something that was absolutely and completely unforeseeable, and out of our control. It’s just a big part of my life, so I’ve been really looking. It actually just recently came out in the UK on Sky, so it’s still continuing its life. Jewell was eventually cleared, but the media circus surrounding him and his family raised serious questions about media ethics long after the cameras left his doorstep. I’m honored to premiere it in the States. In her deposition, she was majorly medicated and also using drugs and alcohol, and yet was sharp as a tack. In a new depiction of the 1996 Olympics bombing in Atlanta and its aftermath, a newspaper reporter from the time is once again portrayed in a controversial light. GUGINO: Oh, wow! GUGINO: I’ve been really, really wanting to get back to the stage. What about when there’s a new suspect? As his life and career hang in the balance, Brennan tries to find common ground with the militia ⦠She made everybody laugh and she told dirty jokes. She really tried to get her life back in gear and, ultimately and unfortunately, wasn’t able to. Still regarded as one of the best and most unique comic adaptations, Gugino played Lucille, the parole officer and advocate of Mickey Rourke's Marv, a hulking and scarred ex-convict, who got caught up in a truly gruesome and deadly situation. The true crime anthology series tells the story of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and the two main suspects in the case: Richard Jewell, played by Cameron Britton, and Eric Rudolph, played ⦠The last play, which I loved doing, was at Lincoln Center and was called A Kid Like Jake. Manhunt: Deadly Games is the follow-up installment to Manhunt: Unabomber on CBS. She also talked about the recent announcement that Cinemax would no longer be making original programming, which as a result meant that the network won’t be airing a second series of her TV series Jett, which previous characters she might want to revisit, the TV series she’d love to do a guest spot on, and what made her want to return to the stage for the play Anatomy of a Suicide. That was the style of the paper. While Gugino has certainly earned a reputation for herself on the big screen, more recently, she's been showing love for her TV roots. We see that happening, all the time. In "Manhunt: Deadly Games,â reporter Kathy Scruggs, who broke the story that authorities were looking at Richard Jewell as a suspect in the 1996 Olympic Bombing in Atlanta, is depicted as doing drugs with cops. What did you think of her wardrobe and how did that help you define who she was? It was just across the board, for Cinemax. But first, letâs take a look at the plot for this one. Why Kathy Scruggs From Manhunt: Deadly Games Looks So Familiar. This play is exquisite. It’s about inherited suicide, so it’s profound and deep and painful, but it’s also witty and human and exhilarating, in the way in which she’s written it. Manhunt: Deadly Games This miniseries tells the story of the FBI's hunt for the Unabomber in the 1990s. I love the theater. Photo: Lionsgate. Fox's Deputy Mayor of New York City, Mike Flaherty, in Spin City before scoring a season-long stint on the popular CBS medical drama Chicago Hope. Among them were 2007's Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor-led American Gangster. She did check sources. But at the moment in which she reported that he was a major suspect and the FBI was investigating him, that was, in fact, true. You’re looking for some moment of respite and some feeling of elevation, and this story was like that for her. He had the same backpack, he had bomb training, he was highly uncomfortable around people. ... Brennan tries to change the FBI's stance after uncovering Rudolph's plan, while Kathy Scruggs struggles with the fallout of her reporting on Richard. The point is that we, as a society, get one piece of information and, all of a sudden, it’s being spoken about like it’s the truth, and it may not be and it may be destroying people’s lives, in the meantime. It absolutely seemed like it was him. There’s something really tangible about the practicality of it, and the storytelling nature of it. Contains spoilers for Manhunt: Deadly Games. When this came your way and you read it, what most interested you in the overall story, but also specifically in Kathy Scruggs’ story? Gugino took a stab at another comic book character, this time named Sally Jupiter (or Silk Spectre) in Zack Snyder's highly-anticipated and mixed-reviewed adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen. GUGINO: Yes, I did find that frustrating. This was an opportunity that she had never been given before. The show is based on the true story of the incident and features the people who were either involved or got pulled into the FBI ⦠The actress has appeared in several horror-based TV franchises, including the first and second iterations of Mike Flanagan's horror series' The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor. GUGINO: Thank you. Seemingly riding on the success of 2019's Oscar-nominated Richard Jewell, the second season of this crime anthology tells its own version of the real-life drama around a man who, unlike his series predecessor, was falsely accused of being a bomber. It all goes back to that fateful day at the Centennial Olympic Park hosting the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In the first, Gugino stars as Olivia Crain, the family matriarch who is slowly swallowed whole by the hungry ghosts of the haunted manor her family is renovating. That story she talks about, where she showed up before the cops, and the rookie cop came into the crime scene and she was already there, that’s totally true. It was very unusual for her, as a woman, to be in that position, and it was because she was really good. The costumes were so much more right on than I ever thought they would be. After first pointing the finger at the wrongly accused and innocent Richard Jewell (Cameron Britton), whose life was turned upside by the FBI and the national news media while he fought to clear his name, the FBI then focused their hunt on elusive serial bomber Eric Rudolph (Jack Huston), who had a very clear and dangerous agenda of his own. She was a southern woman and, at that time, without any kind of shame, that was a part of her whole package. She ended up dying of a morphine overdose. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actress Carla Gugino (who plays real-life former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs) talked about why she wanted to play Kathy Scruggs, exploring all of the sides of who she was, always gravitating towards the grey areas in characters, whether she personally found this woman to be frustrating, the incredible wardrobe, and how much the clothing can inform the character. And thereâs no time like the present to start streaming. And Cinemax is obviously disappointed, as well, because they really loved the show, and we had such a wonderful working relationship with all of the people over at HBO and Cinemax. The lines were a little bit more blurred. Finally, in 2003, Gugino nabbed her first leading TV series role (outside of appearances in mini-series like The Buccaneers) in ABC's unfortunately short-lived Karen Sisco. It’s been six years? In 10-episodes of the David Duchovny Showtime series Californication, she played Hank Moody's love interest and attorney. Is there a current TV series that you watch, that you’d love to do a guest spot on? The story basically fell in her lap, and she was then pressured to do it quickly, otherwise somebody else was gonna run the story, which is the nature of that profession, and she ended up in very deep. Obviously, my job, as an actor playing someone, is to see it from their point of view, but it was one of the things I talked to Andrew [Sodroski], our writer and showrunner about. She is buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens, Georgia. Gillian [Anderson] is just so good in it. I knew before it officially happened, but it is the strangest set of circumstances because the show has been so embraced, both by fans and by critics. So, to me, it’s absolutely terrifying and awful, what happened to Richard Jewell, but I didn’t want to back away from or soften [Kathy Scruggs], in any way, because I wanted to give people perhaps a chance of empathy, seeing a little bit of the world through her eyes. Well, for a lot of years, I felt that way about Karen Cisco, and I still feel that way about her, even though, for me, somehow we were able to dig even deeper with Jett, so because they could be distant cousins, I feel like maybe that switched to Jett, a little bit. It’s that thing where your work in the business that we’ve chosen, outlasts you. Before that was the USA miniseries Political Animals, alongside well-known talents like Sigourney Weaver and Sebastian Stan, the gritty FX drama Justified, and the more light-hearted Fox comedy New Girl. Release year: 2019. You’re actually the first journalist that I’m talking to about it. We only had one picture available to us, in existence, of Kathy, which is crazy considering that she was a journalist who was gonna be sent to jail. But when I speak to people who really did, everybody said that everyone thought it was Richard Jewell. It’s really incredible piece of theater. She was caught up in this much bigger game with very high stakes that she ended up being a pawn in, as well, but she is culpable. & Juno Temple Is Just as Excited as We Are. 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