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In an interview with PEOPLE, Brittany Snow reveals the burning questions she asked journalist Mandy Matney, who she portrays in Murdaugh: Death in the Family

Matney became famous for her true-crime podcast covering the Murdaugh family murders

Snow also shares the first thing she told Matney when she got the role

Brittany Snow got to put journalist Mandy Matney in the hot seat.

While preparing to portray Matney in the Hulu true-crime series Murdaugh: Death in the Family , the actress, 39, says she asked her real-life counterpart "so many" questions.

"At first, I was talking to her a lot about the character and about how I wanted to encapsulate her and her essence," Snow tells PEOPLE. "Then, after a while, I just wanted to get down to the nitty-gritty and ask her act

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