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When scamming her way through New York City and bilking banks, hotels, and people, Anna Delvey used her voice — that impossible-to-place accent, that clipped delivery and deadpan drawl, and those sharp consonants — to enthrall and deflect. Every questionable element of her backstory, from her nationality and her parents’ social status to her education and professional background, could be explained away via that confusingly mellifluous voice. What motives, desires, and delusions were hidden within its layers?
Inventing Anna, Netflix’s adaptation of Jessica Pressler’s 2018 New York Magazine story about Delvey, attempts to reveal its titular figure’s interiority by pulling on its viewers the…
