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Mr. Purefoy, I’d like to sincerely thank you. The Following is not a show I would’ve been able to watch a few years ago but, it has become an unexpected weird sort of therapy that makes me very thankful. I’m a survivor of a ‘psychopath’ that I was also married to, so the madness that is a part of Joe’s character is not new to me but, I would think that there are strong emotions The Following is able to invoke in the audience that are both positive and negative. Do the negative reactions toward you personally put you off from playing a villain like Joe in the future? I’ve heard that Joe is sort of a combination of several serial killers like Bundy and the Manson Family but, I am also curious if there were other people or experiences that you draw from for your performance? Thank you again, I hope to see more of your performances, they are very well done, and wish you and your family the very best.

Thank you so much for your response, and for not giving them the satisfaction or feeding their extreme narcissism. I much prefer you to be famous for pretending to be one, its a sort of poetic justice for someone else to steal their thunder with a fictional icon of what they are. I hadn't thought of it that way before just now. That is just awesome.