Kaitlyn Dever Discusses Her Career & Unbelievable With InStyle

Kaitlyn Dever sat down with InStyle magazine for an interview to promote her new Netflix series, Unbelievable. Based on real events, this new series tells the story of a young woman who recants her her story of rape and the two detective determined to put a serial rapist behind bars. Highlights from her interview are below.

On defining her career: “I never wanted to define myself and I don’t think I’ll ever want to. I was just talking to someone about my style, and over the past couple of years, I’ve tried to pinpoint, ‘What am I representing when I walk outside? Who do I want to be?’ I get in my head about that kind of thing, but it doesn’t really matter. I don’t want to be one specific thing because I’m so scatterbrained anyway. My style is all over the place. That’s the reason why I do different types of work and roles. It’s in my core to be all over the place and scattered, which makes life kind of fun.”

On playing the role of Marie in her new series: “I had such an emotional connection to Marie since reading her story, and I felt a sense of responsibility to give it my best effort because she deserved that,” she tells me, revealing that she found it hard to disconnect from the role on her days off. “I really stayed in it for three to four months. I’m not a method actor, so I didn’t mean to do that. I don’t know if I had control over it. But what I was feeling was nothing compared to what she felt.”

You can check out even more from Kaitlyn’s interview here. Unbelievable is currently streaming on Netflix!