Margaret Qualley to play Amanda Knox in new TV series

Hulu says the series is Knox’s ‘16-year odyssey to set herself free’
Margaret Qualley will play Amanda Knox.
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Ayan Omar8 March 2024

Hulu has green-lit a limited series about Amanda Knox, the American author and activist who was wrongfully incarcerated for the murder of Meredith Kercher, before being acquitted in 2015.

The Oscar-nominated Poor Things and Maid actress, Margaret Qualley, is set to take on the lead role as Knox.

The untitled series comes from the creators of Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale, and has been a fast-tracked by the producer of This Is Us and Gossip Girl. Monica Lewinksy and Knox herself are also credited as executive producers. 

Lewinsky hinted at the show back in October, telling Today: “I wish it were announced already, but I’m executive producing a limited series that’s on another young woman who found her life decimated and ripped apart on the world stage, but she somehow managed to survive. I think it’s going to be really powerful.”

The show will consist of eight one-hour episodes. It has been described by Hulu as Knox’s “16-year odyssey to set herself free.”

This is not the first timer her tumultuous story was told on the big screen. In 2021, Knox fiercely criticised Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy for “fictionalising” her story in the film Stillwater. 

In a lengthy X thread, she said: “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 and story without my consent.”

She added: “By fictionalising away my innocence, my total lack of involvement, by erasing the role of the authorities in my wrongful conviction, McCarthy reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person.

“And with Matt Damon’s star power, both are sure to profit handsomely off this fictionalisation of ‘the Amanda Knox saga’ that is sure to leave plenty of viewers wondering, ‘Maybe the real-life Amanda was involved somehow.’” 

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