Inventing Anna is a fictional Netflix collection based mostly on actual folks, together with Anna Sorokin (higher referred to as Anna Delvey) and Neffatari “Neff” Davis. The true-life Neff, a resort concierge turned Los Angeles filmmaker, just lately spoke out in regards to the methods the Shonda Rhimes collection has impacted her life, good and dangerous. Right here’s how Neff’s life has modified since Inventing Anna.
‘Inventing Anna’ makes it exhausting for viewers to separate the fictional Neff from the actual one
Inventing Anna relies on Jessica Pressler‘s New York Journal article “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Get together Individuals.” When the piece got here out in 2018, most individuals’s reactions got here out on Twitter. However with the discharge of the Netflix collection, reactions are extra fashionable on TikTok and Instagram.
“So many individuals began following me,” Davis advised Vulture. “In fact, I received adverse and constructive messages — it was powerful the primary few days.” The filmmaker acknowledges why so many have robust reactions, although. “As a result of the writing is so well-done, folks aren’t capable of separate the actual Neff from the Neff within the present,” she mentioned.
In terms of constructive suggestions, followers of the Netflix collection have advised Davis they “want a pal like Neff” or they’re going to call their daughter Neffatari. “Lots of people have been hitting me up saying they’re impressed as a result of in addition they work a job and still have a dream,” added Davis, who aspired to work in present enterprise when she met Delvey.
However with the entire constructive suggestions additionally comes some adverse. “The unlucky half is lots of racist feedback and individuals who don’t perceive the dynamics between me being a Black lady and Anna being a white lady,” Davis described. “They had been feeling like, particularly throughout Black Historical past Month, my character was simply somebody who kissed Anna’s ass an excessive amount of. They mistook my loyalty for one thing else.”
‘Inventing Anna’ didn’t ‘do Neffatari Davis soiled’
Davis fielded lots of feedback relating to race and her friendship with Delvey. So, she took to Instagram to deal with the loyalty she confirmed Delvey.
“I’ve been getting this quite a bit and I simply need to make it clear one time,” she wrote on Feb. 22. “Inventing Anna didn’t do me ‘soiled.’ It’s a present — not my biography.”
Davis additionally reminded everybody how the “Anna s***” occurred in 2017″ and detailed all of the constructive methods the Netflix collection has impacted her life. “I’m blessed to be tanning on a Tuesday dwelling in LA consuming lobster pizza from Berri’s,” she added. “That’s due to Inventing Anna and Shonda. They not solely gave me my first movie credit score on the largest digital platform ever; they made certain I used to be paid a pleasant coin.”
She requested that everybody not “slander” the Netflix collection and concluded: “So don’t cry for me or fear about how s*** made me look. I’m glad. Wholesome. Writing scripts.”
Neff Davis ‘by no means noticed the dangerous facet’ of Anna Delvey
Davis understands the place these folks’s reactions had been coming from. “As a Black lady, I do know we’re pitted towards Caucasian girls lots of occasions,” Davis mentioned in her submit. “However on the finish of the day, my loyalty with Anna wasn’t due to her pores and skin shade — I known as her out on a number of issues she mentioned.”
Nonetheless, Davis mentioned she befriended Delvey due to the best way she handled her. “I by no means noticed the dangerous facet of Anna. I by no means received scammed by her. She by no means didn’t pay me again.” At publication, she and Delvey stay associates.
Watch Inventing Anna on Netflix.
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