Dennis Quaid Calls Playing 'Happy Face' Serial KILLER 'Easier' Than He Thought

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00:00Turns out playing a serial killer playing him was much easier than I thought because he doesn't have emotions

00:07Not real emotions. Mr. Jefferson. You promised you would tell us about the ninth victim

00:15The Jane Doe I've already told Ivy that this whole thing is just a lie to get me here. So I wish

00:21Then prove it. What's her name? I wasn't interested in playing a serial killer

00:25I don't like to go there, but they love fame and stuff, but this was

00:30Really Melissa's story told from the daughter's point of view and I think she knows him better than he knows himself

00:37Tell you the truth even after everything that he has done. You still love him. He wasn't always a monster

00:43he became one for that he was just

00:47My dad her father and her had a very loving sweet relationship in her memory

00:53Growing up and then at 15 she finds out her dad is a serial killer

00:57He killed eight women in five years. And how do you reconcile that? I mean makes you ask yourself

01:04What would that do to my life? She's a hero in a way in the way that she responded

01:09She reached out to the victims families. It was very courageous. Our show is about the victims more than

01:17Sensationalizing him if I tell you that then you're just gonna get up and you're gonna walk out of here

01:22And I'm not gonna see you for another 15 years

01:25well

01:25If you don't tell me that now then I'm just gonna get up and I'm gonna walk out of here and you won't see

01:29Me for the rest of your life

01:32And Annalie Ashford who plays Melissa says after they met she quickly realized they have more in common than just looks

01:38I think what's actually the most similar about the two of us is we have the same energy

01:44and the same sort of

01:46Spirit we both wear a heart on our sleeve and that was something that I really wanted to make sure was a part of her

01:52characterization and the telling of our story because it is such a part of how she

01:58navigates the world in this

02:01unexpected role that she has in

02:03Being an advocate for people who are touched by the true trauma of true crime through her own story of being the daughter of a serial

02:08killer