New HBO Max crime series casts Jesse Plemons opposite Elizabeth Olsen

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The series is based on real events

Jesse Plemons and Elizabeth Olsen
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Jesse Plemons has joined the cast of Love and Death, a new crime series for HBO Max, starring alongside Elizabeth Olsen.

Based on true events that occurred in 1980, Olsen is playing Candy Montgomery, a small town Texas housewife who murdered her friend Betty Gore – Candy was having an affair with Betty's husband Allan (Plemons), and, shortly after they called off the relationship, Betty was found dead. The series will be written by David E. Kelley, the man behind Big Little Lies and The Undoing, and directed by Homeland‘s Lesli Linka Glatter. Nicole Kidman is also on board as an executive producer.

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Emily Garbutt
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