‘The Staircase’ editor Sophie Brunet never wanted to be a character in HBO Max’s adaptation—and exclusively tells V.F. that the series misrepresents her 13-year relationship with Michael Peterson.
after he was accused of murdering his wife, Kathleen, in 2001.which has been heralded as true-crime cinema—providing astonishing access into a fascinating trial that unfolded in a series of stranger-than-fiction story twists involving secret lovers and the late discovery of a missing suspected murder weapon. Campos wanted to know about aengaged in a yearslong romance that largely overlapped with his time in prison.
without ever meeting or corresponding with Peterson. She says she was inspired to reach out to Peterson only after he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in October 2003. After that meeting, Brunet traded hundreds of letters with Peterson, and flew to visit him three to four times a year, he writes in his book. She received phone calls from him via a company called Prison Calls Online, she adds.
edited the documentary with the understanding that, per an agreement with Peterson’s defense attorney,they could not release footage until after Peterson had exhausted his chances for appeal. to try and help Michael is this,” writes Brunet, “I worked on the owl theory for years, collecting dozens and dozens of accounts of owl attacks on people. But since it was never presented in court, we did not include it in the documentary.
“My relationship with Michael never affected my editing,” writes Brunet. “I never ever cut anything out that would be damaging for him. I have too big an opinion of my job to be even remotely tempted to do anything like that. And Jean would never let it happen anyway. It is his film and I respect that greatly.”
Brunet did not realize at the time that by doing the interview, she was also qualifying the relationship as public domain.
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