According to Ball, a teacher told his mother he was "some sort of sex maniac" for his drawings of fashionable women.Įdgar Ramirez as Gianni Versace in 'American Crime Story.' Jeff Daly/FX The story of Gianni being called a pervert for his sketches is also true. Franca was known as the best dressmaker in Reggio Calabria, Italy, and she and her son were very close. Whether she wanted to be a doctor specifically is unclear. The real Franca Versace did become a seamstress after her father told her she could no longer attend school with boys, according to biographer Deborah Ball's House of Versace. She tells him the story of her own father crushing her dreams of being a doctor because she was a woman. Gianni's mother, Franca (Francesca Fanti), discovers her son's interest in sewing, and encourages him, despite his gender. "Creator/Destroyer" opens in Calabria, Italy in 1957, when 11-year-old Versace (played by Billy Cruz) is beginning to explore his interest in fashion design. Here's what they got right, and where they took creative liberties. The episode is written by Tom Rob Smith and Maggie Cohn and directed by actor Matt Bomer. In Cunanan's, his father indulged and pampered his youngest child-only to abandon him. In the Italian designer's case, his mother prepared him to work hard to achieve his dreams. "Creator/Destroyer," the penultimate episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace, compares the vastly different childhoods of Gianni Versace (played by Edgar Ramirez) and his murderer, Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss).
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