Why Rebecca Hall Wants to Champion Christine Chubbuck
The film is neither depressing nor lurid, but rather a tender portrayal of an intelligent misfit struggling to keep it together.
After Rebecca Hall finished shooting the final scene of , her new film about the American newsreader Christine Chubbuck, who, in 1974, blew her brains out on live television, she got in the car that had come to take her off the set. The movie, a small, independent production financed with money Hall helped raise, couldn’t afford trailers, and she was still caked in fake blood; she couldn’t shower until she got back home. “I just remember really shaking for a long time, as I washed the blood off myself,” she says. “Being rigged to a machine that pumps blood, and holding a gun and putting it to your
