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If you want to know what it was really like to be Marcia Clark, now 65, losing the 1995 double murder case against O.J. Simpson, the best way to find out is not to watch the new show she’s executive producing, The Fix (ABC, Mondays starting March 18, 10 p.m. ET). To relive that drama, watch the Oscar-winning 2016 documentary O.J.: Made in America or the 2016 miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, which earned Sarah Paulson the Emmy and the Golden Globe for playing Clark.
At a 2018 Television Critics Association (TCA) meeting, Clark said that Paulson, “who was somehow, without ever meeting me, able to deliver how it felt to be me, [was] amazing. It did give people a truer picture of what it was like to be there."
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But The Fix gives you hints about Clark’s worst case while delivering a conventional law drama — and it’s exhibit A in her growing show biz career, which also includes an upcoming true-crime show in development for Britain’s ITV network. On ABC’s fictional The Fix, Robin Tunney stars as Los Angeles District Attorney Maya Travis, who fails to win a double-murder conviction of the famous black actor Sevvy Johnson (Lost’s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, 51). So he’s still lounging around his fancy infinity pool, and she flees to live the good life on an Oregon ranch that the real Marcia Clark might not be able to afford.
As Clark said of The Fix, which was unveiled at last fall's TCA meeting: “Is it a revenge fantasy? Maybe."
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