Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist - Introducing: Killer Role

Episode Date: April 13, 2021

As a bonus for Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist listeners, we’re sharing a special preview of Killer Role, a new podcast from Dateline NBC and Keith Morrison. An actress playing a killer in a horror film is so good, you’d almost think she’d done it in real life. Turns out she had… Dateline’s Keith Morrison takes you inside a story where fiction and reality collide. Search for Killer Role and listen now.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A new horror movie with a promising young star. Three, two, one, action. What the hell are you doing? I was just using the bathroom. Did you hear that noise? Yes, and the power is out again, too. Cut! She was such a phenomenal actor.

I mean, it was just insane. We absolutely adored her. She definitely seemed to really nail it. She was so good, maybe too good, at playing a killer. I really had a strong inkling that that was her. Who was this talented young woman? I'm Keith Morrison. Here at Dayline NBC, we see a lot of people pretend not to be killers,

but we've never had a case where the main suspect decided to play one. Ready actors. Action! Please stop! Cut! Our latest story will take us to a small town in Oregon, where an actor who dreamed of marrying a Hollywood producer would get her chance in the spotlight.

But where did the performance end? And reality begin? You know how, like, in horror movies, the hand goes around the door? A story of secret identities and a family feud. My sister's open to the house. They were a kid fired off a gun over there this morning. And inheritance. I was going to adulterate the will with additional language

that said that if anything happened to my family, he would be immediately disinherited. And a protective mother, who said she and her children lived in constant fear. We were terrorized. Terrorized. I don't agree for my brother.

I am glad this man is dead. And the young woman at the center who landed a killer role. I could never have you have made that shot if I tried. This is Jackson County 911 emergency. All I can tell you is a gun went off. Killer role.

A story was surprises even Hollywood couldn't have imagined. Subscribe for free, wherever you get your podcasts, and join us for the first two episodes on April 13th.