SEATTLE — The true-crime limited series "The Thing About Pam" continues tonight right here on KING 5. Evening Host Jim Dever spoke with actors Renée Zellweger and Judy Greer about the series. Below is a transcript of the interview.
RENEE & JUDY: "Hi Jim! Hi Jim!"
JIM: "Hi! I love this show. It's so much fun. Let me start out by asking about the true crime genre and how Americans seem to be in love with this idea of us looking at each other in the most extreme scene, I suppose. And Renee you've been a fan of true crime for a while, right?”
RENEE: "Oh yeah. I mean, guilty. You need a way to unwind at the end of a long day.”
JUDY: “Some people internet shop, Renee (laugh)."
JIM: "Were you a fan of the podcast? Is that how you got involved in the project?"
RENEE: "Oh yeah, I was obsessed. I binged the whole thing driving up the 5 freeway. Try and stop me. I'm like millions of people I couldn't believe it. When you hear this story and a series of escalating absurdities, and you get to the end and you ask yourself, 'Why?' and 'How?'"
JIM: "Judy, your character, it fascinates me. I wonder, as the audience, are we supposed to root for or against you?"
JUDY: "I will leave that up to the audience. I found I felt a little of both sometimes I'll be honest about Leah. I mean she is a real person and I was trying to be, and we were all trying to be, respectful to all of these people who are real people. The fact that this person is still alive and she's a real person, she did these things and she's out there, and I wonder, I’m so curious if she's watching it."
JIM: "And another strong character in the narrator. I can't picture this project without Keith Morison. In fact, I want Keith Morison to narrate my entire life."
RENEE: "Mmmm, I don't know if you do (laugh). Cause that only means one or two things…"
JUDY: "You're either going down or you're the one who did it."
JIM: "Yeah he really adds the right tone to the project. Now another thing that brings this whole story to life is the extensive makeup, Renee, that you had to endure. I don't know how you do it?"
RENEE: "Well, thanks. That's the genius of Arjen Tuiten, our prosthetics, I call him a magician. He hand-makes every single one of these things and paints them every day down to the last freckle."
JIM: "Well thank you so much for talking to us. I am so looking forward to where this journey takes all of us."
RENEE: "Ah, that's great. Thanks so much."
"The Thing About Pam" airs Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. on KING 5
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