14 DAY TRIAL // On October 5, Lifetime will air yet another hotly anticipated biopic, this time about a public figure who is still very much alive: designer Donatella Versace of the House of Versace, with Gina Gershon as lead.
In a recent interview, the actress admitted to turning down the part initially because she thought the film would be a disservice to Donatella and she didn’t want any kind of involvement in that, SF Gate reports.
However, that lasted only until she got her hands on the script, which is when she had a change of heart.
“Then I read the script and I just thought, it’s really a family drama at the end of the day and I found it so compelling, her story, I almost wish it hadn’t been her. I was like, ‘I’ll play this no matter what’, because I love the rise and fall and rise…,” the actress says.
A video from the film is embedded below. “House of Versace” premieres in a few days’ time, and is based on Deborah Ball’s book “House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival.”