Actress Janel Moloney didn’t know much about Amber Frey until agreed to play her. The “The West Wing” actress portrays the former mistress of convicted murderer Scott Peterson in the CBS movie “Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution” that airs Wednesday.
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Adapted from Frey’s autobiography, the film tells the story of her romance with Peterson (Nathan Anderson) and what happened after she realized that he had a pregnant wife who was missing, and her effort to help Modesto, Calif., police gather evidence against him. “Saturday Night Live” alum Nora Dunn plays Frey’s attorney, Gloria Allred, a co-executive producer of the movie.
Moloney said she had “absolutely no interest on any level” in the Peterson case as he became the prime suspect in the deaths of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son. But playing Frey began to intrigue Moloney after she “read her book and started to think about the challenge of doing the role. It became appealing to me as an actress.”
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