As Not an Ax Murderer

And for her next role, Christina Ricci is gonna wield an ax.

Not.

Well, maybe.

Ish.

The actress has signed on to play the infamous Lizzie Borden on a new movie for Lifetime.

Y’all might remember Borden as the Massachusetts girl who in 1892 was accused of taking an ax to both her father and her stepmother...only to be acquitted of the murders. After the notorious trial, the goings-on of which were fodder throughout the land, Borden remained in Massachusetts, where she bravely faced the whispers and the looks of her neighbors until the day she died.

So, you know...a classic.

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