After Lisa Rinna exited The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in early 2023, she was ready to return to her TV movie roots.
“I had been talking to Lifetime right after I left Housewives about doing a movie,” explains the former Melrose Place actress, 60, who previously starred in the network’s films Another Woman’s Husband in 2000 and Sex, Lies and Obsession (with husband Harry Hamlin) in 2001.
“We had a meeting and they asked me what kind of a movie I wanted to do. And I said, ‘I’d love to play either a murderer or somebody really, really crazy,’ and they were like, ‘Oh my God. We love it. We think we have something for you,’” continues Rinna. “So they had sent me an idea first that was truly a murder story and I loved it.”
But Hollywood’s dual writers’ and actors’ strike last year derailed the plans for that film. “Lifetime came back to me…
