![]() ![]() They met so Floyd could study her living character, and Davis said the resulting depiction seemed “really accurate to who I am”-down to her preferred orange nail color. When Alexis Floyd was cast as Neff Davis-the hotel concierge who became close with Anna after she moved into the posh SoHo hotel where she worked-the Brooklyn women lived 10 minutes from each other. In the end, as the series’ name would suggest, Anna is as much her own invention as everyone else’s. ![]() ![]() In the show (and probably in life) the facade of layers leads everyone to project their own assumptions about her, further complicating their ability to distinguish fact from fictions-both hers and theirs. “Definitely not in public or in front of strangers.” (If anything, she hides behind her cutting humor when she’s uncomfortable, I’ve noticed she laughs-often at herself.) Her frailty is depicted in buckets of tears, but “I don’t really cry that much,” Sorokin said. She didn’t consider herself as entitled, demanding, or shameless as she is onscreen. “I speak four languages-in three voices.”Īnna Delvey at her trial (left) and Julia Garner playing Anna Delvey in Inventing Anna. Netflix Anna claims to have a photographic memory and to speak seven languages. When not incarcerated, both Annas are glued to their phones: scrolling through Instagram, looking up the next hot place-encyclopedic reels of who’s who and what’s what. She would be content to leave Netflix Anna alone. “It’s tempting to try to correct the narrative, but I’m trying to resist because that was never the point of the show,” Sorokin said after watching several scenes with me. While other Netflix consultants were sometimes on-set, from jail, Sorokin wrote out and recorded answers to questions about her life. “Can you imagine? Who would say that?” (A careful study of character and with ample supply of $100 tips and insinuation, Sorokin could easily lead them to her desired conclusion.) “I never told anyone I was a German heiress,” Sorokin, who is originally from Russia, told me the first time we spoke at Rikers years ago. The thing about Anna Delvey-both the real one and the Netflix version-is that people saw who they wanted to see. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]()
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