Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ Trailer Finds Kaitlyn Dever as a Scammer Influencer (with Australian Accent!)
The Netflix limited series will star Dever as a queen of an influencing empire built on a lie.
by Erin Strecker · IndieWireAnna Delvey, meet Belle Gibson. After the smash success of Netflix’s “Inventing Anna” it’s no surprise more scammer stories are forthcoming. And the latest, “Apple Cider Vinegar,” is a doozy.
“Set at the birth of Instagram, ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ follows two young women who set out to cure their life-threatening illnesses through health and wellness, influencing their global online communities along the way. All of which would be incredibly inspiring if it were all true,” per a Netflix press release. “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.”
Starring Kaitlyn Dever as Australian influencer Gibson, the show was created and written by Samantha Strauss, inspired by “The Woman Who Fooled the World,” by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano. Directed by Jeffrey Walker, the Netflix series will also star Alycia Debnam-Carey, Aisha Dee, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Ashley Zukerman, Mark Coles Smith, Susie Porter, Matt Nable, Phoenix Raei, Chai Hansen, Rick Davies, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Catherine McClements, and Essie Davis.
“She’s probably killing people with her lies,” one person notes in the trailer for the show, which will also tackle the under-regulated wellness injury and the alternative medicine people, primarily women, use when not listened to by their doctors.
“You’d have to be an actual sociopath to do that,” Dever says in the trailer about faking a cancer diagnosis for attention. “And I could do 50 personality quizzes right now and I’m an empath every time.”
Dever previously starred in Netflix’s limited series “Unbelievable” and Hulu’s “Dopesick” as well as the films “Booksmart” and “Ticket to Paradise.” She broke out in the indie “Short Term 12,” and will soon be seen as the highly anticipated character of Abby in the forthcoming “The Last of Us” Season 2.
“Apple Cider Vinegar” will debut on Netflix February 6. Watch the trailer for the limited series below.