Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki knows that voice intimately. It has seeped into his consciousness — the distinctive New York rasp of Robert Durst, scion of a powerful New York real estate family and a man suspected of triple murder.
“Once it’s in your head, you can’t get rid of it,” he says.
Jarecki has heard that voice too many times to count: In interviews, prison phone calls, wiretaps, voicemails — the persistent, insistent whine that conveyed to Durst accomplices, enablers, attorneys, “This is what I need from you.” And his signature sign-off, “Bye bye,” uttered almost mechanically, but with an open-ended undertone that sent a message: “Until the next thing I need from you.”
“His voice was a big part of this kind of hypnotic quality of Bob,” says the director of The Jinx, parts 1 and 2. “He’s able to exert dominance through his voice and through his delivery.”
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“Once it’s in your head, you can’t get rid of it,” he says.
Jarecki has heard that voice too many times to count: In interviews, prison phone calls, wiretaps, voicemails — the persistent, insistent whine that conveyed to Durst accomplices, enablers, attorneys, “This is what I need from you.” And his signature sign-off, “Bye bye,” uttered almost mechanically, but with an open-ended undertone that sent a message: “Until the next thing I need from you.”
“His voice was a big part of this kind of hypnotic quality of Bob,” says the director of The Jinx, parts 1 and 2. “He’s able to exert dominance through his voice and through his delivery.”
That larynx,...
- 8/9/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
If the first The Jinx series had released as a binge-watch, everything about the Robert Durst story would be different.
“He would have been in Cuba,” director Andrew Jarecki explains of Durst, while reflecting on the docuseries’ 2015 beginning, during a chat about its 2024 ending.
The New York real estate heir had been suspected of three murders when HBO released The Jinx in February 2015, a project that Jarecki had already been working on for years. Part 2, which concluded its follow-up six episodes on Sunday night, explored how Durst went on the run after watching the fifth episode of The Jinx — Part 1. He never made it to Cuba, however — as he was apprehended the day before the next week’s finale aired, and would go on to broadcast his now-famous bathroom confession.
“It’s a unique situation, because usually a television show is not intertwined in that way with real life,” Jarecki tells The Hollywood Reporter.
“He would have been in Cuba,” director Andrew Jarecki explains of Durst, while reflecting on the docuseries’ 2015 beginning, during a chat about its 2024 ending.
The New York real estate heir had been suspected of three murders when HBO released The Jinx in February 2015, a project that Jarecki had already been working on for years. Part 2, which concluded its follow-up six episodes on Sunday night, explored how Durst went on the run after watching the fifth episode of The Jinx — Part 1. He never made it to Cuba, however — as he was apprehended the day before the next week’s finale aired, and would go on to broadcast his now-famous bathroom confession.
“It’s a unique situation, because usually a television show is not intertwined in that way with real life,” Jarecki tells The Hollywood Reporter.
- 5/28/2024
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
No one could top the sensational ending to “The Jinx” — not even “The Jinx.” In 2015, the HBO true crime docuseries profiling New York real estate heir and alleged serial murderer Robert Durst shocked the world by catching Durst on a hot microphone making an apparent confession. “Killed them all, of course” was hardly a smoking gun from a legal point of view, but as television, those five words were the kind of stunning revelation that decades-old cold cases rarely provide. That Durst himself delivered the line in his distinctive, croaking rasp lent the whole saga the air of Greek tragedy, epitomizing the millionaire’s bizarre compulsion to unburden himself to filmmaker Andrew Jarecki in defiance of his own good luck.
“The Jinx: Part Two” concludes on a more anticlimactic note. Despite Durst’s 2021 conviction for the murder of his former friend Susan Berman and, in 2022, his death in prison, the...
“The Jinx: Part Two” concludes on a more anticlimactic note. Despite Durst’s 2021 conviction for the murder of his former friend Susan Berman and, in 2022, his death in prison, the...
- 5/27/2024
- by Alison Herman
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Jarecki admits that it’s bizarre and surprising he has been telling Robert Durst’s story for so long. Across two decades, The Jinx director has explored the true-crime tale of the New York real estate heir who was suspected of three murders across his life, which ended in 2022 at age 78 not long after a guilty verdict and prison life sentence was handed down in one of those murders.
“Not only does the story keep shifting and are there so many big human questions that it calls into play, but this whole Part Two is really about something different for us,” Jarecki told The Hollywood Reporter when talking about the follow-up to HBO’s 2015 series (which helped launch the true-crime documentary wave that still exists today). “A lot of Part One was retrospective, where these are terrible events that happened in the past. Part Two is really happening while you are watching it.
“Not only does the story keep shifting and are there so many big human questions that it calls into play, but this whole Part Two is really about something different for us,” Jarecki told The Hollywood Reporter when talking about the follow-up to HBO’s 2015 series (which helped launch the true-crime documentary wave that still exists today). “A lot of Part One was retrospective, where these are terrible events that happened in the past. Part Two is really happening while you are watching it.
- 5/22/2024
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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