Author: Jean Bentley / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
[This story contains spoilers from the series premiere of HBO’s Sharp Objects.]
Camille Preaker is a self-harming alcoholic journalist — and the heroine of HBO’s new, Southern Gothic murder-mystery limited series Sharp Objects. At the very end of the series premiere, viewers glimpsed what Camille (Amy Adams) had been hiding under her baggy clothes for the entirety of the episode: self-inflicted scars covering practically every inch of her body.
The self-harm storyline is lifted directly from the book, which was Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s debut novel, but it wasn’t really a focus of the advertising for HBO take. And in fact, the first episode establishes that one of Camille’s biggest demons is a drinking problem. But in the book, the impulse to harm herself is paramount in Camille’s mind.
HBO recognized the “sensitive nature of the show’s content,” and included an end card in the premiere pointing viewers to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and has set up a website with resources.
Adams previously told The Hollywood Reporter that the scarring on her body was created daily by makeup artists gluing prosthetic scars to her body.
“I had to stand naked because it was head to toe, every inch of my body. So, there I’d be, in a taped-on thong. Everyone was so professional but,…
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