‘Girl In Room 13’ Director Elisabeth Röhm: Anne Heche Gave This Role ‘Everything She Had’

Girl In Room 13 volition people 1 of Anne Heche’s last roles. The histrion sadly passed away connected August 11 astatine the property of 53. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with the Lifetime movie’s manager Elisabeth Röhm astir moving alongside the precocious actress.

Anne Heche successful ‘Girl In Room 13.’ (Lifetime)

“We had a large relationship, and we were some arsenic committed to collaborating connected this project. I cognize she was precise arrogant of this film, and she gave it everything she had. Her show is phenomenal,” Elisabeth said.

Anne died aft her car crashed into a location connected August 5. Both the car and the location caught fire. It took firefighters astir an hr to extinguish the flames and extract Anne from the car. The histrion was successful a coma for a week earlier being declared legally dead. She died of fume inhalation and thermal injuries.

Girl In Room 13 was a task that meant truthful overmuch to Anne. The movie addresses the important and applicable taxable of quality trafficking. Grace, played by Larissa Dias, is held captive by her ex successful an effort to merchantability her into quality trafficking. Janie, played by Anne, stops astatine thing to find her daughter. She uncovers the acheronian satellite of quality trafficking and the shocking statistic astir its wide victims.

Elisabeth noted that she’s go “really inspired by Lifetime’s committedness to halt unit against women,” and that’s wherefore she wanted to nonstop Girl In Room 13. “They are telling the pugnacious stories, and they’re not doing it successful a mode that’s irresponsible… This is simply a precise hard topic. It’s a confusing topic. It’s a monolithic topic. It’s a $150 cardinal taxable and millions of victims — men, women, and children — endure due to the fact that of quality trafficking. This is our effort astatine telling a tiny portion of that story. I emotion directing and acting for Lifetime due to the fact that I consciousness they instrumentality a heavy consciousness of work astir these stories. The Girl In bid besides specifically gets into immoderate of the tougher topics, truthful we look guardant to sharing this movie with the satellite and anticipation it makes an impact.”

Anne Heche and Larissa Dias successful ‘Girl In Room 13.’ (Lifetime)

For the relation of Grace, Elisabeth specifically reached retired to Larissa astir the movie aft having worked with her previously. The manager was continually impressed with however the actors approached the material. “Every azygous day, they each came to acceptable giving it everything they had to archer this important communicative astir this large issue,” she told HollywoodLife. She added, “The actors were brave and truthful and committed to the bigger origin astatine hand.”

In summation to the film, Lifetime volition beryllium launching a PSA to gully attraction to Polaris and the Human Trafficking Hotline to link victims with survivors. “It’s a wholly confidential hotline. We privation to proceed telling this communicative done this movie to effort to marque an impact,” Elisabeth noted. “The statistic are staggering — 25 million, they estimate, victims passim the world, and they’re each precise unsocial stories. This was our mentation of telling a story, and 1 that is acold excessively common.” Girl In Room 13 airs September 17 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.