A new excerpt of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile has been unveiled, further teasing out Zac Efron’s performance as serial killer Ted Bundy.
The scene occurs at a diner and sees Efron’s Bundy answer his girlfriend’s questions as he prepares to defend himself in court – just like the real-life Bundy did.
Elizabeth Kloepfer, Bundy’s one-time partner, played by Lily Collins in the biopic, asks him why a woman picked him out of a line-up, thus implicating him.
Bundy offers excuses, at one point telling Collins’s Kloepfer: “Do you see that car out there? It’s been following me since I got back.
“Either I’m going crazy, or I’m being set up.”
The real Bundy was executed in 1989 aged 42. At the time of his death, he had confessed to killing 30 women and girls across seven states, though the actual death toll might be higher.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival.
It is scheduled to be released in some theatres and has been acquired by Netflix. The film will be available on Sky in the UK in May.
The trailer of the biopic received mixed reactions earlier this year, leaving some viewers worried that the film would glorify Bundy. Director Joe Berlinger has dismissed those concerns as naive.
