Michael Peterson, the man at the heart of the real-life story in The Staircase, has raged about the HBO series in a new interview.
In a recent interview with Variety, Peterson said that de Lestrade had “pimped” him and his family out by giving The Staircase showrunner Antonio Campos access to his archives.
“There are egregious fabrications and distortions of the truth in the HBO series, well beyond what may be considered ‘artistic’ license.”
An HBO series starring Colin Firth as Peterson and Toni Collette as Kathleen, which is a follow-up to Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s acclaimed documentary of the same name, is currently filming inside Michael’s home.