Before shooting, Raúl Esparza did his homework, finding out as much as he could about the Candy Montgomery case. “I’m a big reader, so I liked reading a lot about the case,” he said. “We had trial transcripts and photographs of the crime scene, and we had interviews with the people who were involved and in attendance in the courtroom or at the police station.”
He also made a point of studying how the real Don Crowder looked and behaved. “I looked for audio and video of Don,” he said. “I tried to find how he felt and looked and sounded, made some decisions to not play him exactly the way he looked in his face. Everything else was a lot of fun to try to emulate, even down to the cadence of the way he spoke and the way he said very particular words, because he had an incredibly specific way of speaking. That was fun.”
