GD: Why was it important for you to be a producer on the movie, to have a little bit more control to make sure that everything would come out the way you wanted, or what was the impetus that you wanted to be a producer?
MR: Well I first approached the script as a producer. I wasn’t looking at it specifically as an acting role. We at the time at the company, we were working at female-driven content that could operate on the high-end indie space and something that felt original obviously. We read a lot of scripts so when you read one that stands out from the masses, it’s something special and that’s what this was. We read “I, Tonya” and immediately there was incredible female characters there but I wanted to play her as well. The role scared me a little bit. I didn’t know if I could pull her off but it was one of those roles that I wanted to go after. And when I read the script I didn’t realize it was a true story. I didn’t even realized Tonya was a real-life person. So that made it even more fascinating. I think the script is just so original. It had a very rebellious quality to it. It seemed to break every rule a script normally follows. There were so many different… the mockumentary style framing device that’s used throughout the film, narrators commenting on their own storylines and giving various versions of events, the non-linear structure, all those things, it was refreshing and wild to read. It felt rebellious, and that rebellious nature kind of mirrored the characters that we were learning about. I loved the script. That is the short answer, I just really loved the script.