New true crime drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile has garnered much attention.
The film stars former Disney star Zac Efron as infamous American serial killer Ted Bundy and features Lily Collins as his long-time girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer.
The movie is rather light on depicting the killer at his most despicable, but director Joe Berlinger has spoken out about the film's final scene, which he reveals was significantly dramatised for cinematic effect.
The sequence saw Elizabeth confront Bundy when he's on Death Row and wants to hear the truth from him - with him eventually breaking from his charming persona to reveal his darker side.
Berlinger told Digital Spy: "You know, I just felt that, particularly with the #MeToo era of accountability that we live in, you know, which I wholeheartedly support in the most fundamental way, I felt it was very important for this character to really hold him accountable; to make him, eye to eye, admit to her what he's done."
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He suggested the rest of the film is based on historical fact, but the showdown was required to deliver an effective climax.
"And so 95% of the film is extremely accurate. But that final scene is, you know, embellished for dramatic purposes. But it is based on a real conversation that had happened.
"But that was a telephone conversation – and in a movie that's full of telephone conversations, it would have been very anticlimactic to have yet another phone conversation.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile also stars Kaya Scodelario, Jim Parsons, and John Malkovich.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is released on Netflix in the USA on May 3, and Sky Cinemas on May 3 in the UK.
