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Amanda Knox make surprise appearance at Peacock’s Installed — but how did it come to be?
During the season finale, which premiered earlier this month, Zosia MametAJ’s character accidentally scores dinner with Knox, 37. AJ’s friend Ruby (Stephanie Hsu) surprised her in an attempt to patch things up after sleeping with on and off boyfriend AJ.
“Your boyfriend said you always say, ‘If I could just have an hour with Amanda Knox,'” Knox told AJ in the scene. “Well, I’m Amanda Knox, and you have one hour.”
Mamet, 36, interrupted the scene, saying IndieWire on December 21, “We kept the set very small that night because we didn’t want any spoilers and wanted to respect Amanda’s privacy. It was not unlike the scene we shot.”
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The actress praised Knox’s involvement. “(Amanda) is wonderful and so kind and so smart and so open about her experience,” Mamet added. “She’s a force. She is one of the strongest people I have ever met.”
After the entire season was released on Peacock, Knox offered a glimpse of her cameo. “It was fun taking a break from courtroom drama to cameo in this TV comedy and do a scene with @zosiamamet,” she wrote via Instagram.
It was Knox was thrust into the spotlight in 2007 when she was accused of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher while they were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison after she and then her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito both were found guilty of the crime despite a lack of evidence.
An appeals court later acquitted the former couple in 2011, but they were again found guilty three years later during a retrial. The Italian supreme court cleared Knox of Kercher’s murder in 2015, and she was exonerated.
Ivorian migrant Rudy Guede was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years for Kercher’s murder after his DNA was found at the crime scene. His sentence was later commuted, and he was released from prison in November 2021.
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During her questioning in 2007, Knox, who was 20 at the time, accused her boss at the time. Patrick Lumumba of the murder, which led to his arrest and imprisonment for two weeks. Knox signed two statements prepared by the police regarding this accusation before withdrawing the allegations.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2023 that Knox’s rights had been violated during the interrogation that ultimately led to her indictment against Lumumba. As a result, the Italian supreme court ordered a retrial at the appellate court level.
It was Knox eventually being re-convicted of slander in June by an Italian court. He was originally convicted in 2009 of slander for falsely accusing Lumumba of murdering Kercher, and the appellate court upheld that conviction nearly two decades after Kercher’s murder.
Knox, who shares two children with her husband Christopher Robinwithout spending more time in prison, given the four years she already spent behind bars following her wrongful imprisonment for Kercher’s murder.
