Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ Starring Kaitlyn Dever

Are you hooked on gritty true crime collection however want they may often be extra colourful, feminine and enjoyable? Effectively, Netflix would possibly simply have the subsequent present for you.

The streamer is revealing a sneak peek Tuesday of its forthcoming Australian restricted collection Apple Cider Vinegar, a playfully fictionalized tackle the story of Belle Gibson, the Australian single mom who launched a wellness empire by convincing the world she had mind most cancers however was efficiently curing herself with an all-natural way of life. 

“This is a true-ish story based on a lie, about the rise and fall of a wellness empire; the culture that built it up and the people who tore it down,” Netflix’s official abstract reads. 

Netflix unveiled a batch of first-look photographs and a teaser video this morning that includes star Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart, Dopesick, Unbelievable) as Belle throughout numerous phases of her unbelievable journey from nameless striver to globally disgraced grifter. 

Apple Cider Vinegar is created by award-winning Australian author Samantha Strauss (9 Good Strangers, The Finish), who scripted the present with up-and-coming abilities Anya Beyersdorf and Angela Betzien. The collection was loosely impressed by the non-fiction e-book The Lady Who Fooled the World, written by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the 2 journalists who uncovered the main points of Gibson’s deception. 

However Strauss’ tackle the story is rather more than a easy rise and fall chronicle. With Belle at its heart, Apple Cider Vinegar follows 4 ladies’s overlapping experiences with wellness and the rise of the social media influencer. With sly wit and unbelievable empathy, the present concurrently scrutinizes the conceitedness of the standard medical institution and the presumptions and false guarantees of the wellness trade. The present’s vibrant aesthetic and interval pop rating, in the meantime, present a nostalgia journey to the early 2000s — whereas not shying away from what the period’s headlong embrace of social media did to our grasp on collective fact. 

Tilda Cobham-Hervey (I Am Lady) performs Lucy, a lady fighting most cancers who’s seduced by the neighborhood and hope supplied by Belle’s Instagram feed. Alycia Debnam-Carey (Worry the Strolling Useless) performs Milla Blake, a younger lady who launches a rival wellness platform after she’s identified with a grave type of sarcoma and involves imagine that she will be able to overcome her prognosis with a routine of espresso enemas and a juice-heavy food regimen. Aisha Dee (The Daring Kind) performs Milla’s shut pal, who meets Belle at an occasion and initially senses a comrade — earlier than their budding partnership curdles right into a crusading sense of suspicion. 

Apple Cider Vinegar is directed by Jeffrey Walker (The Clearing, The Suave Dodger, Trendy Household). Extra solid contains Ashley Zukerman (Succession), Mark Coles Smith (Thriller Highway: Origin), Susie Porter (Irreverent), Matt Nable (Transfusion), Phoenix Raei (The Night time Agent), Chai Hansen (Night time Sky), Richard Davies (Offspring), Kieran Darcy-Smith (Mr. Inbetween), Catherine McClements (Complete Management) and Essie Davis (Recreation of Thrones).

See-Noticed Movies’ Liz Watts, Helen Gregory, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning government produce, alongside Choosing Scabs’ Samantha Strauss, Louise Gough and Dever. Yvonne Collins is credited as a producer.

“Samantha Strauss has created a series that is searing in its comment but entertaining at its very core,” Watts and Gough mentioned in a joint assertion. “It’s complex, it’s got bounce and it’s got bite, and we love it.” 

Apple Cider Vinger is predicted to be launched someday in early 2025. 

The present can also be a part of Netflix’s increasing push into Australian unique content material, following the current success of Territory — described by critics as “the Aussie answer to Yellowstone” — and the a lot anticipated third and remaining season of the Sydney-set YA collection Heartbreak Excessive. 

The collection was shot on location in Melbourne, Australia with assist fromVicScreen by way of their Victorian Manufacturing Fund. Submit Manufacturing occurred in NSW with assist by way of Display screen NSW and their PDV Fund.