
How did Sophie Brunet and Michael Peterson meet? HBO Max’s series suggests that Brunet was editing episodes of the original The Staircase while she was involved with Peterson - but did this really happen? To find out more about the real relationship between Peterson and Brunet, read on below. Last week, de Lestrade expressed his distress at the depiction of the documentary process, and Brunet’s role in it specifically, to Vanity Fair, saying, “I feel that I’ve been betrayed in a way” by Antonio Campos, who directed the new limited series. Unlike the docuseries, it delves deeply into the relationship between documentary editor and documentary subject. Now, HBO Max is airing a fictionalized version of the series, also titled The Staircase, starring Colin Firth as Peterson and Juliette Binoche as Brunet. But they left out perhaps the juiciest morsel of all: the fact that Peterson embarked on a romantic relationship with the editor of the documentary, a woman named Sophie Brunet, in the wake of his conviction. Later episodes, which were filmed during Peterson’s appeals process and aired in 20, continued to document the case. At the trial, the prosecution dug into Peterson’s sex life (which involved correspondence with a male escort), the Petersons’ wobbly finances, and a family friend of Petersons’ who’d died in eerily similar circumstances to Kathleen decades earlier.


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The story followed the trial of Michael Peterson, who was accused of murdering his wife Kathleen, after she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in the couple’s home. When Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s docuseries The Staircase first premiered in 2004, it asked thought-provoking questions about guilt and innocence, interrogated the American criminal justice system, and provided enough of drama to keep people arguing for years to come.
