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The Staircase, which is impressed by the real-life story of acclaimed creator Michael Peterson and the suspicious dying of his spouse Kathleen, guarantees a chilling dramatization of occasions in a brand new trailer launched April 21.
Within the trailer, when Peterson, performed by Colin Firth, is accused of murdering Kathleen, performed by Toni Collette, he calls it “a witch hunt” as his household and North Carolina hometown try and make sense of what truly occurred. Kathleen was discovered on the backside of the staircase within the household’s residence in 2001.
Firth’s Peterson does all he can to maintain his 5 kids on his facet.
“I believe there should not many households like us,” he says within the trailer. “We’re not good, however we stick collectively. And we love one another.”
Sophie Turner, who performs Peterson’s daughter Margaret, urges the household to face by their father. “Dad has been there for us at all times,” she says. “Cease questioning every little thing. Simply cease.”
The sequence additionally analyzes the dying of Elizabeth Ratliff, Peterson’s first spouse who was additionally discovered lifeless on the backside of a staircase in 1985. Peterson was by no means formally charged in her dying.
