The Girl from Plainville doesn’t feel exploitative, but how does Sevigny view the appetite for true crime served up as entertainment? “Well, I think it’s case by case.
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It just felt like a very full arc, to really examine how this woman navigated her way through that.” Also, how kind of healed from that and eventually found some peace. Also, look at suicide and how it affects families and how far-reaching it is.” The five-month shoot, she says, “was a real exploration of grief and pain. Sevigny wanted, she says, to “help raise awareness around the issues, destigmatise depression. She didn’t meet Lynn, who has since become a campaigner to get Massachusetts to criminalise coerced suicide and make it punishable by up to five years in prison. “I thought that was interesting, just having the time to really examine the case and look at it from all sides.” “I remember seeing pictures of the girl and automatically being like: ‘She’s guilty,’ so I’m as complicit as anybody else in vilifying young, beautiful girls,” says Sevigny. She was released from prison in 2020, after serving less than a year. It is based on the real case of Michelle Carter (played by Elle Fanning in the drama), a 17-year-old who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after encouraging Roy to kill himself in an intense text relationship. Photograph: Steve Dietl/Huluįirst, though, in a role that could not be more different, Sevigny plays Lynn, the mother of Conrad Roy, a teenager who kills himself, in The Girl from Plainville. Sevigny (right) with Paige Roy in The Girl from Plainville. “I’m glad that I can contribute in some little way and just be around her, help propel her in any way I can. “Just watching your friend flourish like that I’ve always thought she was a genius and I’ve always wanted her to be celebrated,” says Sevigny. The show – which follows Nadia, trapped in a nihilistic time loop – is a riot. She has known Lyonne – who wrote, co-created and stars in the show – for years and is palpably proud of her friend’s success. In the Netflix show Russian Doll, soon to begin its second series, Sevigny plays the chaotic mother of Natasha Lyonne’s character, Nadia, in flashback. Somewhere in the background, I can hear her nearly two-year-old son. She is wearing black and applies a slash of red lipstick before we begin. It gives the impression that Sevigny is being birthed by her. Sevigny is at home in New York, positioned beneath a reclining female nude by her longtime friend the artist Rita Ackermann.
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