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Ricci as Tyria

posted 7 years ago by becks3400
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Bad casting. They made her out to be some cowarding waif.
Tyria was as much of a monster as Aileen, only she got away with it.
I wish they had casted her more accurately. But I guess there would be no sympathetic characters if someone isn't tiny with big eyes.

[–] BugisStreetAnnie (1294) 7 years ago

I know she worked as a motel housekeeper at that time, but that part wasn't in the movie. They mostly seemed to fictionalize Tyra's part.

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 7 years ago

Tyria was as much of a monster as Aileen, only she got away with it.

I can't find much on Tyria. What were some of the monstrous things she's done?

I did find this about her on the IMDB Q&A section on why Selby was so much different than real-life Tyria:

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Why weren't they allowed to depict Aileen's real girlfriend, Tyria Moore?

Stories have reported that Tyria is litigious, and Patty Jenkins in an interview said that everything had to pass scrutiny by a platoon of lawyers. Consequently, they created an entirely new girlfriend, Selby Wall (Christina Ricci), who did not resemble Moore in any way. Moore was red-haired, overweight, worked as a carpenter and brick mason, and was older than Selby...27 or 28 years old at the time the murders occurred, while the actress who played Selby was 23.