Sarah Hyland's portrayal of Blanche

Sarah's portrayal was cringe-worthy. That said, Blanche was more accurately characterized in the miniseries than in this film.

Au contraire. If you read Blanche's memoir, My Life with Bonnie and Clyde, she actually describes herself more like Estelle Parson's portrayal. It's true that after the film came out, Blanche complained that it made her look "like a screaming horse's ass." However, in Blanche's book, she acts similar during the first raid in Joplin, running and screaming outside, with her small, white dog barking at her heels. Later, during the tourist camp shootout in Platte City (where she and Buck were wounded) she describes herself as "jumping up and down, screaming, and holding my hands over my ears like a person gone mad." She also mentions several times how much she hated guns and was deathly afraid during the gun battles. In contrast, she describes Bonnie as being cool-headed during the battles. This puzzled Blanche because Bonnie would cry and call out for her mother during a thunderstorm. "I couldn't understand why Bonnie would be so afraid of storms," she wrote. "She didn't act that bad when she was in a gun battle, but she feared God's work more than machine gun fire." In the movie, Blanche only reacts hysterical during the Joplin raid, but at other gunfights she is portrayed as being more composed albeit still scared, so it's not really an unfair or inaccurate portrayal. If I were Blanche, I would've been more offended that they cast 40-year-old, homely Estelle Parsons. The real Blanche was 22 and quite pretty.

Furthermore, it has been stated that the movie's Blanche is also based on Mary O'Dare, Raymond Hamilton's girlfriend, who rode with them for a couple days after Bonnie and Clyde helped to break out Hamilton and others (including Henry Methvin) from Eastham prison in early 1934. O'Dare was disliked greatly by Bonnie and Clyde because of her constant meddling and complaining, which resulted in Hamilton and Clyde almost coming to blows and Hamilton deserting the gang. However, Blanche writes that there was indeed friction between her and Bonnie. In fact, Bonnie seems to have resented Buck and Blanche's constant presence, threatening Blanche and arguing with Buck and often cussing them both out.

Anyway, methinks Blanche was just embarrassed by how foolish she probably looked in real life and that the audience hates Blanche, so she renounced Parson's performance.

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