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It’s that time of year again! Without my consent, yet another entertainment product has been made that is “inspired by” my wrongful conviction, and as with #STILLWATER, this new TV series in France paints me as manipulative & guilty of murder. /🧵
This new French show is called Une Mère Parfaite, The Perfect Mother, and it’s adapted from a 2014 novel by American author @ninadarnton. I’ll come back to the French show. For now, I want to focus on this novel.
Darnton’s book, written before my definitive acquittal by Italy’s supreme court, is “a fictionalized account of the Amanda Knox case,” according to Kirkus reviews. 
It's unendingly strange to see my face being used yet again, without my consent, to promote products that defame me, this time an essay by @alicebolin for @vulture.
I'll let the comments to this essay speak for themselves about the argument @alicebolin makes, comparing my recent thoughts on #Stillwater to the #CatPerson controversy.
"Imagine a movie 'inspired by' the Central Park 5 in which it turns out their fictionalized avatars were actually indirectly involved in the rape," this commenter writes. "Would that be justifiable, for fiction's sake?"
Super disappointed in Tom McCarthy’s response to my critique of #Stillwater in this latest @Variety interview.
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/ an open letter to Tom
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/ an open letter to Tom
Hi Tom. You say: “Stillwater is a work of fiction and not about her life experience...There were a few entry points that sparked the narrative, including aspects of real-life events, but the story and characters within my latest film are all invented.”
Did you read my Atlantic piece? Because I feel like you’re being disingenuous and evading my point.
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Matt Damon is insisting that he has never used the “f-slur” following a recent interview in which he was quoted saying he had stopped using the offensive term when his daughter wrote him a “treatise”: "I stand with the LGBTQ+ community" bit.ly/3yjtheb
“I recalled a discussion I had with my daughter... I attempted to contextualize for her the progress that has been made – though by no means completed – since I was growing up in Boston and, as a child, heard the word ‘f*g’ used on the street,” says Damon. bit.ly/3yjtheb
“I explained that that word was used constantly and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a movie of mine as recently as 2003; she in turn expressed incredulity that there could ever have been a time where that word was used unthinkingly.” bit.ly/3yjtheb
Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent. Most recently, the film #STILLWATER.
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This new film by director Tom McCarthy, starring Matt Damon, is “loosely based” or “directly inspired by” the “Amanda Knox saga,” as Vanity Fair put it in a for-profit article promoting a for-profit film, neither of which I am affiliated with.
I want to pause right here on that phrase: “the Amanda Knox saga.” What does that refer to? Does it refer to anything I did? No. It refers to the events that resulted from the murder of Meredith Kercher by a burglar named Rudy Guede.
Congratulations to the teams behind #Stillwater, #LongWayUp, #Ghostwriter, #Helpsters, #HelpstersHelpYou, and #HereWeAre for their total 25 nominations at the #DaytimeEmmyAwards
A huge congrats to the team behind #Stillwater for their four nominations, including Outstanding Preschool Children’s animated series for the #DaytimeEmmyAwards.
Kudos to the team behind #LongWayUp for their three nominations, including Outstanding Travel, Adventure, and Nature program for the #DaytimeEmmyAwards.
