A last-minute addition to the project after another performer dropped out, Van Patten had only about two months to prepare for the intense six-month shoot, in which she had to put herself in the skin...

Nearly two decades after she first made international headlines, Amanda Knox is bringing her story to the screen—on her own terms.

Van Patten leans into Knox’s uncanny mix of girl-next-door innocence and tabloid fixation, down to the colored contacts that became shorthand for her American-in-Italy persona.