Amanda Knox Updated Movie Difficult to Create Without Knox Involvement, Says Hayden Panettiere
Hayden Panettiere, who played Amanda Knox in a special Lifetime channel movie, has expressed her excitement at Knox’s recent acquittal, but has said a new movie about the successful appeal would be difficult to create without Knox being involved.
Panettiere, who played Knox in “Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy,” was interviewed by Access Hollywood recently where she admitted that she watched emotionally as Knox was set free.
She said, “I was on the edge of my bed, my eyes welled up when I heard the verdict read.”
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Panettiere told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Access Hollywood: “It’s hard for me because I played her. I do feel like I have a certain connection with her.”
“It’s difficult for me to say that I’m not excited to see a young girl get a second chance at life and she does have a second chance, and I hope she makes the best of it,” the actress added.
Talking about the Lifetime movie where she played Knox, Panettiere told: “I think the great thing about that film was that it ended. It was so fact based that it ended when she went to jail, regardless the ending wouldn’t change.”
Access Hollywood asked her whether she would consider playing Knox in another movie, to which she answered: “I just don’t know how differently they’d do the story or what they’d do it about and because it was such public knowledge. They had such facts and information.”
“Now, if they did it about her being in jail, I feel like they would have to get her involved,” she said.
She admitted that she was open to reading a Knox script if presented to her, but gave no guarantees she would be involved in any future productions.
