The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 165, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 25, 2019 Page: 17 of 42
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Kirsten Dunst has a soft spot for
satire.
The actress has proven it in projects
from the movie “Drop Dead Gorgeous”
to the second season of the series
“Fargo.” She tackles the genre again -
as both the star and (along with fellow
“ER” alum George Clooney and others)
an executive producer - as a revenge-
minded crusader against a pyramid
marketing scheme that costs her a lot
in the early 1990s in “On Becoming a
God in Central Florida,” initially made
for YouTube Red but with Showtime
“Mostly, I always look for (a desired)
director or things that I would want
to see or characters I’d like to play,”
Dunst explains, “and I have to say this
material was just so special to me. It’s
been three years now, and we’ve really
had a little bit of a roller coaster of how
this show actually got made to now
being at Showtime.”
The series’ Founders American
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Merchandise — or FAM, to make the
acronym clear - is fictional, but actual
operations have shared its personalized
approach that Dunst’s character Krystal
Stubbs comes to oppose with fury. “I
wasn’t totally familiar with that kind of
multilevel marketing scheme,” Dunst
says, “but I was more familiar with
cults and that kind of thing, which I
think this is comparable to.”
Co-star Mel Rodriguez (“The Last
Man on Earth”), who plays Krystal’s
boss at a water park, has had experience
with such situations. “My mother was
in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Amway
started,” he notes, “and she almost got
into it and regrets the day that she
didn’t, because she would have been
really wealthy now.
“Later on, my poor mom got
involved with an oil company, and she
called me and told me all the benefits
of this oil. She kept saying, ‘They’re
pharmaceutical grade, honey.’ That
Kirsten Dunst stars in
"On Becoming a God in
Central Florida," premiering
Sunday on Showtime.
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kids. And it was really awful, because
it took advantage of this older woman
who really didn’t know any better. She
spent money she didn’t have, a little
over $1500.”
Adds executive producer Esta
Spalding, “Everyone on the show
wants something more for their life,
and there’s no way they can get that
working for minimum wage in 1992.
That’s when Americans were really
betrayed; the working class couldn’t
earn a living that they could sustain
and feed their families with, so they’re
all reaching for something else, and the
(FAM) scheme moves into that. This
show really lives in the world of people
just trying to be happy in their daily
lives, and they’re being preyed on.”
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 165, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 25, 2019, newspaper, August 25, 2019; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1467828/m1/17/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.