Julia Garner is New York’s hottest scammer in trailer for Inventing Anna
The upcoming Netflix series stars Julia Garner and Anna Chlumsky
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The full trailer for Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix miniseries, Inventing Anna, is here. The show chronicles the rise and fall of Anna Delvey (portrayed by two-time Emmy winner Julia Garner), the scammer who convinced New York socialites that she was really a German heiress. Delvey’s story went viral thanks to the 2018 New York Magazine story “How an Aspiring ‘It’ Girl Tricked New York’s Party People—and its Banks.”
In the show, Anna Chlumsky plays Vivian, a fictional journalist who’s trying to get to the bottom of Anna Delvey’s deceptions. Rounding out the cast are Shondaland veteran Katie Lowes, Laverne Cox, Arian Moayed, Jessica Esposito and Anders Holm.
“She’s either a rich German heiress or she’s flat broke,” Chlumsky explains in the trailer. Whether her name was even actually Anna Delvey was part of the mystery.
“She is everything that is wrong with America right now,” someone argues over montages of Anna spending money and taking selfies. But Anna argues that’s not her full story, and Garner nails Anna’s confusingly and vaguely European accent.
In 2019, in real life, Delvey was found guilty on eight charges, including grand larceny. She was sentenced to four to 12 years in state prison. She was released into ICE custody in February 2021, where she reportedly still is, awaiting deportation to Germany.
Garner has been an in-demand actress since her breakout role on Ozark. The first half of that show’s final season is set to hit Netflix on January 21, 2022. Last week, she signed on to the psychological thriller Apartment 7A.
Inventing Anna is Rhimes’ second series for Netflix since she signed her landmark deal with the streamer in 2017. Her first, Bridgerton, will return for a second season this March. The producer has also announced an anthology series, Notes on Love.
Inventing Anna premieres February 11.
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I swear to god that is Kaitlyn Dever not Julia Garner
A scammer and fraudster? Oh, was she into crypto and NFTs?
I love Julia Garner but why does she sound like Tommy Wiseau in this?
From the article: “Garner nails Anna’s confusingly and vaguely European accent.”From that, I gather that the real woman had a weird accent.
I’ve never heard Sorokin/Delvey’s real voice, but she was born in Russia and moved to Germany at 16, and reputedly struggled with the language. So, basically: a Russian who has an accent in German, trying to impersonate the way she thinks a German would speak English. Or maybe that’s just how she speaks English. But, like, why wouldn’t she sound like Tommy Wiseau, who also probably moved from Eastern to Western Europe before coming to the US (according to what his Wikipedia article says today; my recollection was just that nobody knew where he was really from, but now maybe he was born in Poland?) and has generally deflected or just lied about his background?
Here’s an interview with the real Ana. I think Garner does a pretty good job.
https://abc7ny.com/anna-sorokin-gma-interview-fake-heiress-prison/10390849/
One of my best friends is from Pereira, Colombia and moved to New Jersey when he joined the navy. That’s where he learned English. Said it took him a good few years getting made fun of in the navy to shed the NJ accent in English.
This read like Jack Kerouac writing a vogue article… and i like it.
You can find clips of Delvey’s real voice. She really does sound like that.
Is the point of the character that she’s constantly changing accents? Because in that trailer she’s either British, German, or Ruth Langmore.
This looks fun and Garner is just magnetic whatever she’s doing. There was a similar story years ago about a Duke student who convinced people he was a Rothschild, getting into a top fraternity and basically getting his actually rich friends to pay for his big lifestyle. He was actually in his mid-30s. Fake it ‘til you make in indeed.
Also similar is the story of Christian Gerhartsreiter, who was German-born, but convinced people in the U. S. that his name was “Clark Rockefeller “ and was related to the Rockefeller family, and was convicted of kidnapping and murder in California. He had killed people while carrying out his impersonation. Walter Kirn, who wrote the novel “Up In The Air”, upon which the movie was based, knew Gerhartsreiter and wrote a book about him called “Blood Will Out”.