“I’m really not interested in why he is the way he is,” she toldTodayof Alcala.
“I don’t find him interesting or worthy of exploration.”
Bradshaw, however, posed a more interesting subject.
Anna Kendrick in ‘Woman of the Hour’: Cheryl Bradshaw in ‘The Dating Game’.Credit:Leah Gallo/Netflix; ABC
So what actually happened to Cheryl Bradshaw after she encountered a serial killer on national television?
Was Cheryl Bradshaw a real person?
“Sheryl is the most fictionalized piece of the movie,” Kendrick explained in Netflix’s press notes.
Anna Kendrick and Daniel Zovatto in ‘Woman of the Hour’.Leah Gallo/Netflix
Because maybe for the first time in Sheryl’s life, maybe she’s not making herself small."
Did Cheryl Bradshaw go on a date with Rodney after winningThe Dating Game?
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Bradshaw followed her gut and did not go on a date with Alcala.
Cheryl Bradshaw and Rodney Alcala on ‘The Dating Game’.ABC
The actual show, in the ’70s tradition, was also laden with lascivious sexual innuendo.
But once she met Alcala face to face, Bradshaw knew something was off.
“I started to feel ill.
Anna Kendrick and Daniel Zovatto in ‘Woman of the Hour’.Leah Gallo/Netflix
He was acting really creepy,” Bradshaw said in a 2012 interview withThe Sunday Telegraph,perNewsweek.
“I didn’t want to see him again.”
“She said, ‘Ellen, I can’t go out with this guy,'” Metzger told20/20.
“‘There’s weird vibes that are coming off of him.
He’s very strange.
I am not comfortable.
Is that going to be a problem [for the show]?’
And of course, I said, ‘No.'”
He had a mystique about him that I found uncomfortable."
Yet somehow, Alcala ended up on the panel.
What happened to Cheryl Bradshaw afterThe Dating Game?
Bradshaw remained largely out of the public eye after her brush with infamy.
Kendrick admitted that there were “so many things” she wanted to ask Bradshaw while directing the film.
Part of Bradshaw’s mystique was what drew Kendrick to the project.
But at the same time, sometimes it’s not as simple as that," she toldToday.
Woman of the Houris now streaming on Netflix.
