John Wayne Bobbitt has asked actor Patrick Schwarzenegger to contact him before portraying him in the second instalment of Hulu’s true-crime anthology series, Good American Family.
Schwarzenegger is due to play Bobbitt, while Isabela Merced will portray his former wife, Lorena Bobbitt. The case became internationally known after Lorena cut off her husband’s penis with a kitchen knife while he was asleep at their Virginia home in 1993.
Bobbitt said he wanted Schwarzenegger to portray him “authentically” and follow the facts of the case. He has offered to provide the actor with police reports to help create what he described as a fair and balanced series.
He is also considering hiring an entertainment lawyer to approach the programme’s producers over the way the events are presented. Bobbitt said he might send a cease and desist notice if he believed the series invented a story.
Lorena Bobbitt drove away with the severed penis and threw it from her car window. Police later recovered it in a field, and doctors were able to reattach it.
John Bobbitt was charged with marital sexual assault but acquitted by a jury. He has continued to deny allegations that he abused Lorena.
Lorena Bobbitt was charged with malicious wounding and found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, after the court heard of severe physical and sexual abuse at John Bobbitt’s hands. She was confined briefly in a psychiatric facility.
Schwarzenegger’s representatives had not responded to the offer at the time of publication.
