Eric Bana plays real-life con man John Meehan and Connie Britton plays his wife Debra Newell in the Netflix series Dirty John. Anyone who has listened to the Los Angeles Times podcast that birthed the series, which debuts Thursday on Netflix, can understand Newell’s ambivalence. Dirty John, a.k.a. John Meehan, was a drug addict, criminal, and serial liar and stalker who pretended to be a doctor and war veteran when interior designer Newell met him via a dating app. “That was the most difficult part.” Bana did have one condition before signing on to Dirty John.

Source: thestar February 13, 2019 05:01 UTC