{"id":28446,"date":"2022-06-18T05:08:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T10:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=28446"},"modified":"2023-03-23T04:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T09:53:32","slug":"suitcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/18\/suitcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with cast of &#8220;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>TV Interview!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28457\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/suitcasepanel.png\" alt=\"Lifetime press day panel for &quot;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&quot;\" width=\"395\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/suitcasepanel.png 478w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/suitcasepanel-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> Interview with actors Candice King, Michael Roark and Jackson Hurst; EP Kim Raver; and Director Nicole L. Thompson of &#8220;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&#8221; on Lifetime by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a> 6\/1\/22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is your typical Lifetime thriller, based on a true story.\u00a0 Candice King does a great job as the title character. This was from a larger Lifetime press panel. I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-28446-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/tvmegasite.net\/prime\/moviessounds\/articles\/suitcasekiller.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tvmegasite.net\/prime\/moviessounds\/articles\/suitcasekiller.mp4\">http:\/\/tvmegasite.net\/prime\/moviessounds\/articles\/suitcasekiller.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Please join me in welcoming the cast and creatives from \u201cSuitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story.\u201d We have with us today Executive Producer Kim Raver; Director Nicole L. Thompson who makes her directorial debut with this movie; Candice King who plays Melanie McGuire; Michael Roark who plays Melanie\u2019s husband and victim; and, Jackson Hurst who plays the doctor with whom Melanie is having an affair. I\u2019m going to now open the floor to questions. If you would like to ask a question, just a quick reminder at the bottom there\u2019s a reactions button. You can raise your hand, and I will get to as many questions as possible, and we\u2019re just going to get started right now.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Thank you very much. Hi, everyone. Kim, my question is for you. I know you\u2019ve been producing for a while. When you get a project like this do you automatically look for a role for yourself in it, or do you not look for a role in it, or I\u2019m not sure which way that question really cuts, but obviously we know your acting credentials, so it strikes me that perhaps you might have pursued the role of the prosecutor had you wanted it. Can you talk about that a little bit?<\/p>\n<p>KIM RAVER: Sure. Hi, Jay. Thank you for your question. I actually don\u2019t look for a role for myself. I, you know, I love the fact that I can kind of be a creative and my job is on \u201cGrey\u2019s\u201d acting in it. So it\u2019s, I think, you know, my partner, Manuel Boyer, who\u2019s also executive producer on this, we look for things that are story driven and, for sure, I\u2019m looking for really interesting characters. But the way that I can kind of produce is, in a way, if I\u2019m not acting in it. But I still I think my acting drive helps me kind of search out for really interesting characters and really interesting female characters. So I think my first thing is, yes, I would imagine how an actor would want to play it or perceive it, because if it\u2019s something that I find interesting I\u2019m hoping that other actors as talented as this group, you know, is as interested. So I think for me it\u2019s character driven, but it\u2019s more about me not acting in it so that I can kind of do it simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Thank you. Candice, I\u2019m just curious. Your career has been filled with fantasy roles and that strangeness that comes in those kind of characters, but when you do a project like this do you sometimes think that life is stranger than fiction, than the fictional fantasy worlds?<\/p>\n<p>CANDICE KING: Yes, absolutely. Even in some of the circumstances we found ourselves filming in. I mean, essentially, recreating what is, of course, in real life, a horrific scene of a body being cut up in a bathtub. I oddly felt right at home with a bunch of fake blood and, you know, being thrown at my face and, you know, fake saw sounds. It really brought me back to some \u201cVampire Diaries\u201d days, so absolutely real life and fantasy can obvious &#8212; There\u2019s a lot of parallels, shockingly.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: To follow up, Candice, real quickly, what do you do as far as thinking their state-of-mind? Do you think this person I\u2019m playing is a guilty person or somebody that doesn\u2019t understand guilt? What kind of state-of-mind do you get yourself into?<\/p>\n<p>CANDICE KING: Ooh, well, that\u2019s a big question for anyone that was on set with me, because I get very into stories, and especially true life crime stories. So I talked everybody\u2019s ear off about this case. For me, personally, I really just felt that it was my responsibility to tell Melanie\u2019s story, as those were the shoes that I was filling, and this was someone who, by her own account, she is a mother who was scared and as in an abusive relationship, and who was also very dedicated to her job and who was not perfect. She had many, many faults, self-admittedly. So I really felt that kind &#8212; listening to her testimony and that she had given to her lawyers, and as well as there\u2019s a great podcast called \u201cDirect Appeal\u201d in which she spoke for hours, there\u2019s hours of recording of her sharing her story and her experiences that I listened to. So that\u2019s more kind of the direction in which &#8212; or at least that\u2019s what I was showing up to set with, you know, also while following the script that we have.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you, Rick. I have an email request that we received for Nicole. Nicole, you\u2019re a first-time director. What was your experience like bringing this shocking story to television?<\/p>\n<p>NICOLE THOMPSON: It was a great experience being able to work with this very talented cast and crew. As a first-time feature director, it was very important to me to make sure that I did the research to give the story justice and make sure that the facts shine through and showing the characters in fullness, right. Candice spoke to how being flawed, but also having a humanity side to it, so just wanting to make sure that the characters were portrayed properly, but also making sure that film had a full story arc all from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you, Nicole.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Yeah. This is also for Nicole. Interestingly enough, at the last session, we had a Black actress told a story about how she knew she wasn\u2019t getting the role, because the real life person was Caucasian, and she got the role anyway, and so I was wondering, I wanted to ask you are we closer to having real colorblind casting now? Have you sensed any of that at all? And also are we closer to getting rid of that huge gap of there weren\u2019t enough Black people behind the screen, scenes as directors and producers and so on?<\/p>\n<p>NICOLE THOMPSON: Great question. I think Hollywood has definitely began progressing, but I think we still have more to go. I think in terms of your first question with colorblind casting, when I\u2019m looking for cast I\u2019m looking for the best person who can play the role, so I can\u2019t speak for every director or every company, but &#8212; and that\u2019s something that\u2019s a priority for me. And I\u2019m happy with the way things are progressing as well as, you know, seeing more people of color in leadership roles behind the camera, so but I would say, back to my first point, we definitely are taking steps further but there\u2019s still more to go, and I\u2019m very thankful to Lifetime who allowed this opportunity, the Broader Focus Initiative is to put more women in opportunities of leadership roles behind the camera, so that\u2019s why I think because of leaders like Lifetime there is a change.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Okay. Cool, thanks.<\/p>\n<p>KIM RAVER: Yeah, I\u2019m going to add into that. I really do feel that Lifetime is like what Nicole was saying. They really are taking the steps to give opportunities to women and to women of color, and in order to make those changes we need to have those positions filled by women and Women of Color, and Lifetime is really doing that, and I think as producers, too, we\u2019re really trying to support that, and we have Lifetime\u2019s support, which is it\u2019s really encouraging, and it\u2019s just the steps and moving in the right direction of where we need to go and then, you know, we\u2019re lucky to have the talent of Nicole to be able to direct a movie like this, and Lifetime giving those opportunities. So, yeah, it\u2019s nice that that\u2019s happening, and it\u2019s happening at Lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Cool. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you. The next question is an email question for Michael Roark. You play Melanie\u2019s husband in the film, who she subsequently murders. What was the biggest challenge you faced in playing him?<\/p>\n<p>MICHAEL ROARK: Well, initially, you know, obviously, whenever we\u2019re doing a story that\u2019s, you know, we\u2019re doing a real-life story here we\u2019re going where are the resources, what are the facts, and the biggest challenge I faced initially was two things. One was while there was a whole lot of information on Melanie there really wasn\u2019t a whole lot on Bill. I was actually surprised how little could be found on Bill. So, you know, I had to do my work, kind of fill in a lot of those gaps and find my own interpretation. And the other is just the speed at which we move. You know, especially when we\u2019re doing film you never know how much time you have to prepare something, so we moved very quickly on this, so that was a challenge but that\u2019s not atypical for making films.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you, Michael.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Hi, for Candice, this is such a dark role. How long did you shake off a long day of embodying this character?<\/p>\n<p>CANDICE KING: You know, I\u2019d like to say that really going into &#8212; tequila. That\u2019s the straight answer. No. I mean, the reality is that we, you know, as to what Michael was just saying, we shot so much in such a short amount of time, which I mean we were &#8212; we all were together for many, many hours within this three-week period, so there wasn\u2019t a lot of time to really shake off the character, which I actually appreciated because, which sounds so silly, I usually don\u2019t say things like that, but I really did get so deeply involved with reading as much as I could about this case and Melanie, because it is such a wild and tragic and fascinating story of so many flawed individuals, and even just the prosecution and the defense attorneys, that could be a whole other film in itself, just those two characters and real-life people. So there wasn\u2019t a lot of shaking everything off, but I was totally happy with that, because I really could not get enough of the story and really convincing myself that I was going to solve it. I was just going to solve every, you know, unanswerable question to this case by obsessing over it for these few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Hi, how are you guys?<\/p>\n<p>GROUP: (Hellos.)<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: So Melanie did gruesome things in order to have the life she wanted. How do you guys feel about her maintaining her innocence even though the evidence proved otherwise? Do you think she was in denial or simply disassociated herself from the crime itself?<\/p>\n<p>MICHAEL ROARK: Ooh, that\u2019s juicy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28469 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/king2.jpg\" alt=\"Candice King stars in&quot;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&quot; on Lifetime\" width=\"228\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/king2.jpg 304w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/king2-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/>CANDICE KING: Well, there\u2019s a lot of circumstantial evidence against Melanie, but that\u2019s what I think is so fascinating about this case is that the actual physical evidence specifically to the condo in which her and Bill lived in they couldn\u2019t find anything within that condo, and that\u2019s what I think &#8212; Regardless of what you believe on either side of the case, you have to take that into consideration is, you know, they went four or five times. They took piping from the sinks and to test it and found nothing. So regardless of which side you stand on just, you know, the evidence alone it\u2019s just really interesting based off of what the prosecution came to the courts with.<\/p>\n<p>MICHAEL ROARK: I\u2019ll chime in here. This is something we talked about endlessly on set as well. I do agree. There is, you know, if you look at the facts of the case there\u2019s so many other things other than just, you know, the facts that were presented that even the discovery in the trial seemed like it was a bit off, so we\u2019re not even sure the facts that were presented, you know, are all the information that\u2019s there. And now there\u2019s no smoking gun evidence but, at the same time, Melanie had some really behavior that kind of looks like someone who would be guilty. So, I mean, and this is obviously very much just like the minimal amount that we can, you know, just say like, you know &#8212; The case goes on and on but, for me, like how did it affect me coming in, it didn\u2019t. I mean, I played Bill the way I would play Bill, and do I think there\u2019s more to it? Do I think she was guilty? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve got opinions on it, but I\u2019d like to hear what everyone else has to say.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>KIM RAVER: Yeah, I think &#8212; Go ahead &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON HURST: Yeah, I will take it just for (a hair @ 01:04:05), you know, I was kind of torn. I went in thinking she was guilty, guilty, guilty as charged, and then I started listening to the podcast, of course, and I started doing my own research, and then I realized through, yeah, the forensic evidence that was completely lacking. It was circumstantial evidence and it\u2019s crazy. I mean, you could get into the specifics of a few things but I, to this day, am still pretty torn. But, I mean, that\u2019s what makes it such a riveting story, and Lifetime did a good job, Nicole did a good job at not forcing you to choose sides within the movie but just telling the story and then from there the audience can pick a side however they see fit, and then somebody can break Melanie out of jail and everything &#8212; everybody would be happy, boom.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>KIM RAVER: I think that\u2019s what\u2019s so great about this film. I mean, the talent in it that tells the story, and the directing of it, that it\u2019s this incredible roller coaster of back and forth, and there\u2019s just there\u2019s moments where you\u2019re like, \u201cOh, my God. She did it.\u201d \u201cOh, my God. She didn\u2019t do it.\u201d You know, and I think that that &#8212; I mean, unfortunately, it\u2019s a real story, but I think that\u2019s what makes a true crime story to watch so appealing is that there is so much back and forth, and it is such a sort of a ride that you go from one side to the other and just makes it a really great true crime story.<\/p>\n<p>NICOLE THOMPSON: Yes, and I would add, you know, throughout the entire time it was pretty hard not to be torn, because it\u2019s seeing both accounts, but also our goal was to kind of keep it in a way that the audience can, in return, make their decision.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Hey, my question\u2019s actually for Candice. Did you have to put your mindset in the fact that she was innocent to get an accurate portrayal of her, because I would imagine if you thought she was guilty, I\u2019m not going to ask you to pick sides here, but I\u2019m just wondering did you go into this thinking, yeah, she has to be innocent for me to accurately portray her?<\/p>\n<p>CANDICE KING: Yeah, I mean, I think what any actor usually says to a question like this is that you have to go in servicing the character. So, of course, even though the character is a real person, you know, I am going in telling her story. Now what everyone\u2019s just also shared is there are two different narratives. You know, there\u2019s her story and there is, you know, the reason why she\u2019s in jail, the fact that others believed the prosecution\u2019s story and what they said happened. So, of course, yes, I showed up playing Melanie McGuire as Melanie McGuire and what she shared was her, you know, she still to this day declares innocence, you know, and she passed a polygraph test. It\u2019s not admissible in court, but it\u2019s there. So that\u2019s absolutely the role that I came to. That\u2019s who I was, whose story I was there sharing also while acting out the script and the story that you guys will all see, because it is, of course, we are sharing an entertainment version of these events. So as everyone has said you\u2019re going to have moments of like did she, did she not, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re all turning on the TV to watch something.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Great. Thanks so much.<\/p>\n<p>KIM RAVER: And I think what Candice does so well in this movie, which is so difficult, is it\u2019s not like a one-dimensional \u201cis she guilty\/is she not guilty.\u201d She\u2019s such a human being with so many different layers, and that\u2019s really her specific performance in all of these incredible moments and multilayered moments that it just also makes it &#8212; It\u2019s so appealing to watch, because you\u2019re watching this real human being go through and navigate such kind of intricate details of her life, and I think that that\u2019s also what\u2019s so fascinating, and it\u2019s performed so well by you, Candice, and really kind of brings us into her world of how someone gets there whether they\u2019re guilty or not guilty, and so that\u2019s also the beauty of the performance.<\/p>\n<p>CANDICE KING: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: And so the next question is for Jackson Hurst. What is tough about playing a bad guy of sorts as the doctor who\u2019s having an affair with Melanie McGuire?<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON HURST: Bad guy?<\/p>\n<p>KIM RAVER: I was like bad, (laughs.)<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON HURST: This is news to me. This is the first I\u2019m hearing this.<\/p>\n<p>(Laughter.)<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON HURST: You know what, it\u2019s you don\u2019t look at yourself as a bad guy. In my case, I looked at myself as an endocrinologist who\u2019s in love with a woman, and that\u2019s essentially it, and everything revolves around love, you know, and then at the end of the day did she kill somebody and stuff him in a suitcase, maybe. Do I still love her? Yeah, you know, and at the end of the day, it\u2019s we go to court. I\u2019m sure you guys have all seen the story, but it\u2019s tough to justify all of your actions, but in this case, I loved her, and that\u2019s pretty much it.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: I\u2019m here. Yes, I really enjoyed the film, and I\u2019m looking forward to watching it again once it actually comes on TV on June 18th. Can you all talk about any behind-the-scenes moment that was interesting that we wouldn\u2019t have known about since we were not there on set with you?<\/p>\n<p>CANDICE KING: I mean, I think that what was really interesting was how many times we\u2019d find ourselves filming a scene and, all of a sudden, everyone would just stop for a minute and ran &#8212; like different people in the crew would go, \u201cI don\u2019t know if she did it. I don\u2019t know if she did &#8212; \u201c because we, and then we\u2019d find ourselves in another scene where they\u2019d go, \u201cNo, no, no, no, no, this seems like she did it,\u201d and just it was interesting to be acting out these two different, very different accounts that were presented in court, and I think the two ones &#8212; which, Nicole, you can expand on &#8212; but the two ones that stick out to me were, one, how much fake blood was in that bathroom and even if you were to drain a body of blood there would still be &#8212; You know, if you\u2019ve ever been in a surgical room, my dad\u2019s a doctor, so I\u2019ve been lucky enough to witness a surgery, and it\u2019s messy. You know, it\u2019s not &#8212; it\u2019s clean but it\u2019s still very hard to keep it perfectly clean, but they\u2019re going to have blood on the walls, and then the second thing would be throwing suitcases over the bridge, because we actually did that, and they were very difficult, and less than what Melanie would have been pushing over the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>NICOLE THOMPSON: Yes, I can\u2019t chime in with that. Uh, Candice did an amazing job at just demonstrating lifting those suitcases and how much they would have actually weighed in real life, and like it\u2019s like this is actually really difficult to do so just experiencing that, to have it come to life, it was definitely a testament to, you know, what some might say how could this happen or how could it not happen, but I would just say that whether you agree or disagree those moments were definitely some things that we can keep with us as we think about the journey of making this film.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you. I think we have time for one more question.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Yeah. I wanted to ask you, Candice, the year on \u201cVampire Diaries,\u201d what do you think you learned from that experience that you could apply to this one?<\/p>\n<p>CANDICE KING: Shaving cream gets out fake blood when it (stains to your skin @ 01:12:46).<\/p>\n<p>KIM RAVER: And tequila at night. No, I\u2019m just kidding.<\/p>\n<p>CANDICE KING: And tequila at night, yes. Those are both two very important facts. I mean, I think what I would apply &#8212; We had very long hours. We had a lot of nights on that show. We were 22 to 24 episodes a season, so I think making a lot happen in a short amount of time but, obviously, my time on \u201cVampire\u201d was very special. You know, it immediately kind of bonds you when you are working those kind of hours together. So I think that that\u2019s also something that could be applied to this experience. We\u2019re all coming in. We were all &#8212; You know, the story really did take a hold of all of us at different points throughout the experience. It\u2019s impossible for it not to, and so just to immediately all be showing up to make the best story that we could together is something that I was delighted to be able to experience with a new group of individuals in such a short amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Thank you. Well, that concludes today\u2019s Virtual Press Day. Just a quick reminder that \u201cSuitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story\u201d premieres on Saturday, June 18th at 8\/7 Central. A special thank you to the cast and creatives from \u201cSuitcase Killer\u201d and all the panelists that joined us today. Thank you, everyone. As a quick reminder, transcripts and recordings will be available beginning tomorrow. If we didn\u2019t get to your question please feel free to email us at LifetimePR@aenetworks.com, and please be sure to tune into all of our incredible movies all season long, and follow us on social at @LifetimeTV and @LifetimeTVPR. Have a great week and thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p>MORE INFO:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.mylifetime.com\/movies\/suitcase-killer-the-melanie-mcguire-story\/preview-suitcase-killer-the-melanie-mcguire-story\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Trailer<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"text-component-item-54d93173-eeee-11ec-a061-092d83942e42\" class=\"text-component-item body-copy sanitize-html\" role=\"region\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28448 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/suitcasekiller.jpg\" alt=\"poster for &quot;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&quot;\" width=\"340\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/suitcasekiller.jpg 645w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/suitcasekiller-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based on a shocking true story, Melanie McGuire (Candice King) was an exceptional fertility nurse, married to her ex-Navy husband Bill (Michael Roark) and doting mother of two boys. When she falls for Brad (Jackson Hurst), a doctor at her clinic, and gets entangled in a steamy love affair, Melanie does the unthinkable. After drugging and murdering Bill, she dismembers him and places the body parts into three suitcases, throwing them into Chesapeake Bay. But when the suitcases are found on the shores of Virginia Beach, an investigation is launched leading to Melanie as the prime suspect. Led by the efforts of assistant attorney general Patti Prezioso (Wendie Malick), authorities eventually bring Melanie to justice, who despite being convicted, continues to maintain her innocence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story<\/em> is produced by Swirl Films and Big Dreams<br \/>\nEntertainment. Executive producers are Manu Boyer and Kim Raver. As part of the Broader Focus initiative, Nicole L.Thompson makes her directorial debut from a script by Peter O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40237 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/roarkeking.png\" alt=\"Candice King and Michael Roark in Suitcase Killer: &quot;The Melanie McGuire Story&quot; on Lifetime\" width=\"155\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/roarkeking.png 249w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/roarkeking-187x300.png 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>Candice Ren\u00e9 King<\/strong> is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Caroline Forbes in The CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries and her recurring role as the same character on the spin-off series The Originals and Legacies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Roark<\/strong> was born in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA as Michael Sean Roark. He is an actor, producer and a licensed attorney, known for his roles as Marshall Bennett in Bennett&#8217;s War (2019), Kyle Johnson in Beauty and the Beast (2012), Travis Crawford in The Young and the Restless (1973) and Colton Donavan in Driven (2018). He has starred in several television series including Sleepy Hollow (2013), Finding Carter (2014), Banshee (2013) and Grey&#8217;s Anatomy (2005).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40238 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hurst.png\" alt=\"Jackson Hurst in &quot;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&quot; on Lifetime\" width=\"111\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>Jackson Ryan Hurst<\/strong> is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Grayson Kent on the Lifetime comedy series Drop Dead Diva.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40239 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/raver.png\" alt=\"Kim Raver of &quot;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&quot; on Lifetime\" width=\"87\" height=\"124\" \/>Kimberly Jayne Raver<\/strong> is an American actress and producer. She is best known for television roles as Dr. Teddy Altman on ABC&#8217;s medical drama Grey&#8217;s Anatomy, Kim Zambrano on Third Watch, and Audrey Raines on 24.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-69 c1-6a c1-b c1-c c1-d c1-e c1-f c1-g\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28461 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nicolethompson.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole L. Thompson\" width=\"109\" height=\"128\" \/>Nicole L. Thompson<\/strong> is a filmmaker born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Nicole L. Thompson is the Director of Lifetime Network&#8217;s film Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story. Nicole is also the Producer for Nickelodeon&#8217;s Noggin animated children&#8217;s show <em class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1z c1-20 c1-b c1-63 c1-3w c1-2b c1-65 c1-66\">Rhymes Through Times <\/em>featuring Nick Jr. characters. Nicole graduated from USC with a MFA in Film &amp; TV Production. Recently, Nicole served as the 2nd Unit Director of Lifetime Television Network Original Film <em class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1z c1-20 c1-b c1-63 c1-3w c1-2b c1-65 c1-66\">Envy<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Proofread and Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biobrenda\/\">Brenda<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/interviews\/\">Back to the Primetime Articles and Interviews Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28450\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/suitcasekillerking.png\" alt=\"Candice King stars in&quot;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&quot;\" width=\"229\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Interview! &nbsp; Interview with actors Candice King, Michael Roark and Jackson Hurst; EP Kim Raver; and Director Nicole L. Thompson of &#8220;Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story&#8221; on Lifetime by Suzanne 6\/1\/22 This is your typical Lifetime thriller, based on a true story.\u00a0 Candice King does a great job as the title character. 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