Follow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who co | dG1fNDhRUWhnSl9HTEU
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00:00 In Sarasota, Florida today, a 29-year-old talk show hostess shot herself in the head
00:06 live on television.
00:08 The woman, Christine Chubbuck, said, "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you
00:12 the latest in blood and guts, you're going to see another first, an attempted suicide."
00:17 The word spread like through the grapevine.
00:20 I mean, it wasn't tweeted or emailed, you know, it was hated.
00:22 You see what happened on Channel 40 and the old-fashioned way, you know, person to person.
00:27 If you're going to play this role, you need to have like a simmering undercurrent of some
00:32 kind of resentment or personal turmoil.
00:36 The fact that she asked for her show to be videotaped that day indicates to me premeditation.
00:42 She's plotting something.
00:43 All right, go for it, Kate.
00:44 Do I say my name again?
00:45 Sure.
00:46 My name's Kate.
00:47 Acting became this outlet for me to be seen.
00:54 I do worry the impulse is perhaps an unhealthy one.
01:03 She had a tan, her waist-length black hair was clean and shiny, and her black and white
01:07 print dress complimented her long, slim figure.
01:09 I have a lot of friends down in Sarasota.
01:11 I asked them all about it.
01:12 They had never heard of her.
01:14 Just by people moving in, moving out, people are going to forget that type of thing.
01:18 I'm hoping to find tape of Christine Chubbuck, not the tape of her suicide, but anything
01:22 at all.
01:23 She's haunted me for 41 years now, and this didn't come out in any of the other stories
01:27 that I know of.
01:30 Until I make all of this feel as natural as possible, I just feel like I'm playing dress-up.
01:38 I don't know.
01:39 I don't know what to do, Robert.
01:40 I don't know what to do.
01:41 I don't know what this scene is.
01:42 I don't know.
01:43 Here, let's go again.
01:44 Just go again.
01:45 How do you think that went?
01:48 Very badly, because I'm not prepared.
01:51 I'm trying to get as close to it as I can.
01:53 It seems to be somewhat compulsive.
02:01 People still talk about Christine Chubbuck?
02:03 Not at all.
02:05 No.
02:06 No.
02:07 You die two times.
02:08 You die when you pass away, and then you die the last time somebody mentions your name.
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