“I really got into them - not because they’re great literature, but because there is something about them that is very, very compelling,” Burstyn says. RELATED: Heather Graham plays a murderous mom in Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic revampīurstyn, who virtually stole Flowers as the evil Olivia, says she was unaware of the Dollanganger novels until she was cast in that film, but - like millions of other readers - the taboo tales drew her in.And when tragedy strikes the siblings once again, Cathy puts into motion a dangerous and seductive plan to exact revenge on Corrine and Olivia. Plagued by her own demons, Cathy embarks on a volatile relationship with fellow dancer Julian (Will Kemp, Van Helsing), whose jealousy of her bond with Chris escalates into physical abuse. Now grown, Cathy (Rose McIver, Once Upon a Time), Chris (Wyatt Nash, Pretty Little Liars) and Carrie (Bailey Buntain, Bunheads) have moved far from Foxworth Hall and are doing their best to live normally, Chris as a doctor and Cathy as a ballerina, while Carrie still battles the most readily apparent physical and emotional scars of the abuse that killed her twin.
Tweaking that novel’s timeline, Petals - which premieres on Memorial Day - begins 10 years after tormented Dollanganger siblings Christopher, Cathy and Carrie escaped their attic prison and the torment at the hands of their mother Corrine (Graham) and grandmother Olivia (Burstyn). Almost immediately, production began on the film’s sequel, Petals on the Wind. Andrews cult classic novel Flowers in the Attic lured a whopping 6.1 million viewers to its controversial tale of multigenerational family horrors, brought to vivid life by Ellen Burstyn, Heather Graham and Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka. In January, Lifetime’s film adaptation of the V.C.
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