Inventing Anna: Vivian Kent's Real Life Inspiration & True Story Explained
The world of Inventing Anna has a wide cast of characters based on real people, including Vivian Kent, the journalist who is bent on telling Anna Delvey's story. Vivian, who is played by actress Anna Chlumsky (best known for playing Amy in Veep and Veda in My Girl), is based on a real journalist, Jessica Pressler. Pressler wrote an article on Delvey (via The Cut), «Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track Of It,» that served as a basis for the Netflix drama. Though Inventing Anna shows a fictionalized account of Jessica meeting with Anna to write her piece, there are still elements of the real Jessica's backstory to explain.
In Inventing Anna, the character of Vivian writes for the fictional Manhattan magazine. At the start of the show, Vivian is in a career slump after an article she wrote about a Manhattan teenage stock-trading millionaire ended up being false because the subject made up the story. With her journalistic reputation tarnished, Vivian fights with her editors to allow her to write about Delvey instead of #MeToo stories on Wall Street. Inventing Anna follows Vivian as she investigates Anna while also heavily pregnant.
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The real-life inspiration behind Vivian Kent's character, Jessica Pressler is originally from Massachusetts and got her BA in English from Temple University. She wrote for Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly and freelanced for other magazines before moving to New York City and writing for New York magazine, where she was a contributing editor for over a decade. Pressler is also known for writing thetrue story article that inspired the 2019 film Hustlers titled «The Hustlers At Scores» (via The Cut). Pressler
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