After scoring big with Netflix’s “The Kissing Booth” last year, actress Joey King returns as Gypsy Rose Blanchard in Hulu’s anthology series “The Act.”

The stranger-than-fiction story centers around Blanchard and her mother Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette), who suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a condition where a caregiver either fabricates or induces an illness in someone under their care to gain attention and sympathy.

“It was such a mentally challenging role for me,” King told TheWrap. “It required a lot of vulnerability.”

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The story of Gypsy and Dee Dee, which starts off with fraud and ends with the conviction of Gypsy Rose and her boyfriend for Dee Dee’s murder, was first told by the show’s co-creator and co-showrunner Michelle Dean in a 2016 BuzzFeed feature. It was later turned into an HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest...