J.T. LeRoy
“Based on the incredible true lie”
DramaHistory
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
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A haunting exploration of identity and performance. It feels like a quiet, unsettling dream, blurring the lines between truth and fiction as a woman embodies a persona. Intimate and disquieting.
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based on true storyimpersonatorwriterbased on memoir or autobiographymale impersonator
