The world sees Camile as an overly protective and caring mother to Esme (Emily Skeggs), her wheelchair-bound daughter. There are people all through history who are doing things that other groups of people would question whether or not what they are doing is a service to humanity.” The answer is that when you look at crimes across history, racist people don’t think they are racist. My biggest question was whether or not a person who engages in that kind of behavior is aware of it or not.
“Then, it got corroded, and it became the way of life. “She initially thinks she is doing this out of love when she first thought her daughter was sick,” Harden says. All she could see when she looked at the way the mother acted was a lot of gray areas. Marcia Gay Harden (“Code Black”), who plays the abusive and manipulative mother, Camile, didn’t look at the role as being good or bad. The story is based on the true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard from Springfield, Mo. It’s a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy when a mother forces her healthy young daughter to pretend she is ill so she can reap the rewards from charitable people who offer her help. It’s easy to judge the incidents that inspired the Lifetime movie “Love You to Death” as extreme cruelty and abuse.
