‘Dopesick’ Star Kaitlyn Dever Unpacks Her ‘Powerful’ Phone Call Scene Opposite ‘Icon’ Michael Keaton

Welcome to My Favorite Scene! In this series, IndieWire speaks to actors behind a few of our favorite Emmy-nominated television performances about their personal-best onscreen moment and how it came together.For “Dopesick” star Kaitlyn Dever, her favorite scene from the harrowing Hulu drama showing the full history and scope of America’s opioid crisis, which earned her her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, was a fateful phone call between her character Betsy, a coal miner hooked on Oxycontin after a bad back injury, and Dr.

Fennix (Michael Keaton), the doctor who prescribed the drug to her, and later became addicted to it himself.“It’s such a complex scene, these two characters that have gone through so much singularly, then coming together and having this conversation,” said Dever of the moment in Episode 7 written and directed by showrunner Danny Strong.

“There’s a lot of layers to it,

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