Avery Trufelman

It's not like I was wearing see-through shirts, but I'd have on, you know, a t-shirt, a black t-shirt, short-sleeved, with shorts because I was hot.

You got to remember, I was 31 years old, 32 years old, when I began my work in Hinkley.

I was pretty overwhelmed.

I felt a shift of you're trying to now make a person into this idea of what you think somebody who's had a film made about them is supposed to look like, walk, talk and dress and behave.

I did start trying to adjust my wardrobe, or I became more conscious.

Okay, maybe I should cover up a little more.

Or I became more conscious.

Well, maybe my skirt is too short.

Things like that started to change for me.

I remember when I saw the film for the first time, I think it was a matinee, I went by myself and it was packed.

And I sat in the back of the room, nobody knew who I was.

And to this day, half the world, you know, if they saw me, they're like, they have no idea who I am.

I mean, I'm another person in life.

I was amazed at the standing ovation in the theater, but I was listening to people.

I was at the back against the wall and their comments.

Oh my God, do you think she really did that?

And then someone going, I think she really did.

It's based on a true story.

I can now, with more confidence than I ever had back then because so much was coming at me, I absolutely will not ever feel bad about who I was and how I dressed.

It's about the result I got and the lives that it changed.