![]() She was literally exploiting her own suffering in front of the world. But against that, the things she did have to be contextualised as a sort of primal scream against a world that was becoming more exploitative. Of course, she was suffering from a horrible, horrible mental illness, and this is the end result of that. There’s an endless circular irony to the things she did. “I didn’t know why you would make this film. Indeed, Hall’s first reaction was to hide the screenplay from herself: who would ever want to see such a macabre project? Hall had never heard of Chubbuck when she first met with director Antonio Campos (who directed Simon Killer) and screenwriter Craig Shilowich. The second of these, simply titled Christine, has earned strong reviews for actor Rebecca Hall, who provides a forensic account of Chubbuck's final weeks. Thousands of viewers witnessed her on-air suicide. 38 calibre Smith & Wesson revolver from the bag in which she kept puppets – used to give shows at a local hospital for intellectually disabled children – and shot herself behind her right ear. I felt a huge responsibility to the real Christine Chubbuck.” Rebecca Hall in Christine: “If I feel something for a character, then I feel responsible that I should probably try and make other people feel something. ![]() There followed a moment of dead air until Chubbuck returned to her script: “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living colour,” she said, “you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide.” The programme aired, as usual, at 9.30am, but within minutes the team hit a technical snag when the prerecorded VT failed to roll. None of Chubbuck's colleagues (a technical director, her male co-anchor and two camera-women) saw any reason to question her decision to change the running order of her show, Suncoast Digest, which would now open with a report on a local shooting rather than an interview. ![]() ![]() "She was in extraordinary good spirits," wrote Sally Quinn in a Washington Post article the following month. On the morning of July 15, 1974, Christine Chubbuck, a 29-year-old television presenter, arrived at Channel 40, the local Florida TV station where she worked. ![]()
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