The first look exclusively to Happy makes: a real -series criminal story from a new perspective

“I was very lucky throughout my career that I played a few people in real life and that was really helpful in this incredible story,” says Ashford. “The best part of playing this character is that the real Melissa has such a beautiful and authentic heart. This is a real gift – to play someone who really cares about others before they cared about itself. “

Dennis Quaid enters the role of Keith Jesperson, nicknamed The Happy Face Killer because of his pain for smiling faces in correspondence with the authorities. Currently, Jesperson is 69 years old and continues to torment his daughter behind the graces of the Oregon State Penitentiary, with unwanted letters.

“((Happy face) It shows how it is for these letters to come to my mailbox, following my Instagram, strangers who reach me, only the emotions of what is and the emotions of what my children pass, having a grandfather who is a serial criminal, ”says Moore.

Moore credits the performance of Ashford and Quaid, helping her understand her dynamics with her father better.

“They obtained the emotional connection, how toxic it was,” says Moore. “It has always been a part of me who wanted this is not true, that I really had a father. Dennis knows that my desire is to have a father and how my real father plays this as manipulation. “

“One of the things Dennis made so beautiful was that he was able to play both people. He was able to play the man before the crime and the man after the crime, ”adds Ashford. “It was a thrill to act with him. I feel like I had a truly natural parental chemistry. “