Netflix has released a first look image for Apple Cider Vinegar, a new limited series shot in Melbourne starring Kaitlyn Deaver as infamous Australian wellness influencer Belle Gibson. The series’ tagline is “A story based on lies that feels like truth.”
According to Netflix’s website Tudum:
Inspired by a true story based on a lie, Apple Cider Vinegar stars Kaitlyn Deaver as Belle Gibson, an Australian wellness influencer who claims to have cured her terminal brain tumor through health and wellness. Not likely?
apple cider vinegar. Image: Netflix.
“That’s because it is. As it turns out, Bell was never actually diagnosed with or cured of a malignant brain tumor. She shares it with the world through social media, a mobile app she developed, and a companion cookbook. ”
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Here’s an overview of this series: “Set during the birth of Instagram, Apple Cider Vinegar tells the story of two young women who strive to cure life-threatening illnesses through health and wellness and influence a global online community in the process. If it’s all true, it’ll be incredibly impressive.
“This is a true story based on lies about the rise and fall of the wellness empire. The culture that built it and the people who destroyed it.”
Watch Apple Cider Vinegar Teaser Trailer
apple cider vinegar. Image: Netflix.
Apple Cider Vinegar: Developer
According to Tudum, the show was created by “award-winning Australian writer Samantha Strauss (who lived in Melbourne at the peak of Gibson’s success in real life) (‘Nine Perfect Strangers’, ‘The End’, ‘Dance’)”・Produced by “Academy.”
“The six-episode limited series explores the birth of Instagram and serves as a cultural interrogation of our time: the glamor and rise of wellness culture; the girlboss startup culture at its peak; Not the age of innocence on social media.”
Apple cider vinegar: cast and crew
Director: Jeffrey Walker (The Clearing, The Artful Dodger, Modern Family) Creator: Samantha Strauss Writer: Samantha Strauss (The End, Nine Perfect Strangers) ”, “Dance Academy”), Anya Beiersdorf (“The Twelve,” “Fake”), Angela Betsian (“Total Control”)) Sources of inspiration: “The Woman Who Deceived the World” by Beau Donnelly and Nick Toscano Executive producers: Liz Watts, Helen Gregory, Emile Sharman and Ian Canning of See-Saw Films. Samantha Strauss and Louise Gough picking scabs. Producer: Yvonne Collins Co-producer: Libby Sharp of See-Saw Films Co-executive producer: Jeffrey Walker Simon Gillis of See-Saw Films Previously announced cast: Kaitlyn Deaver (Dope Sick, Unbelievable), Alicia Debnam-Carey (Alice Hart’s Lost Flower, Fear the Walking Dead) Aisha Dee (The Bold Type, Safe Home), Tilda Cobham-Harvey (The Lost Flower of Alice Hart, I Am Woman), Ashley Zukerman (Succession), Mark Coles-Smith (Mystery Road: Origins) Newly Announced Cast: Susie Porter (Irreverent, Wentworth), Matt Nable (Transfusion, The Last King of the Cross), Phoenix Ray (The Night Agent), Chai Hansen (Night Sky), The New Legends of Apple Cider Vinegar by Rick Davis (The Offspring), Kieran Darcy-Smith (Mr. Inbetween), Catherine McClements (Total Control) and Essie Davis (One Day, The Babadook). Image: Netflix.
Apple Cider Vinegar will be filmed on location in Melbourne, Australia with support through VicScreen’s Victorian Production Fund and is scheduled for a global premiere on Netflix in 2025. Post-production took place in NSW with support from Screen NSW and the PDV Fund.
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