Since September 9, M6 has been broadcasting the mini-series, inspired by real events, The Thing About Pam With Unrecognizable in the title role, Renée Zellweger plays murderess Pam Hupp. What happened to the real protagonist of the affair?
Renee Zellweger is unrecognizable in The Thing About Pam, a series inspired by true events, which arrives on M6 this Saturday, September 9 and in which the Oscar-winning actress plays Pam Hupp, an American sentenced to life for murder. For this shoot, which was sometimes difficult for the actress, Renee Zellweger went through the makeup box. “Four hours” more precisely, as she confided in an interview, to complete this transformation…
The Thing About Pam : physically transformed, Renée Zellweger plays the murderer Pam Hupp
In the six episodes that make up the mini-series The Thing About Pam, Renee Zellweger was transformed into Pamela Hupp. This Missouri woman has inspired a popular podcast, several books and, now, this fiction film starring the Oscar-winning actress. Crime aficionados probably already know the incredible story of Pam Hupp. In 2011, she murdered Betsy Faria, her best friend who had cancer, in an attempt to collect insurance money. Before doing everything to incriminate Betsy’s ex-husband, Russ Faria. The accused spent three years behind bars before being exonerated thanks to the help of his lawyer, Joël Schwartz, played by Josh Duhamel.
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The Thing About Pam : what happens to the real Pam Hupp?
It is only in 2021 that Pam Hupp was charged with the murder of her former friend Betsy Faria. Sentenced to life in prison, she is serving a life sentence for another murder. That of Louis Gumpenberger, a man diminished by physical and mental handicaps. She committed this murder in 2016 hoping to ward off police suspicion while again trying to frame the victim’s ex-husband, Russ Faria. Pam Hupp is incarcerated at the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri where she is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. The inmate is also suspected of having killed herself, who died in 2013 in strange circumstances…
