A dance story is the 2019 film starring Torilena Fields, the Robertson Co. woman accused of murdering and dismembering her mother earlier this month.

When she played Victoria in the film, her director and co-star Andoni Zorbas had no idea of ​​her real identity. He knew her as Naomi Navarre, an aspiring artist who spoke fondly of her life back home.

“We became friends with our mothers,” Zorbas told LEX 18. “She really loved her mother. At one point, while we were in the car together, she invited me to taste the cookies of his mother.”

That’s why he was shocked to learn of Fields’ arrest — and the disturbing details of the case against her.

“I thought it was a prank,” he said. “I thought someone was joking with me.”

Instagram of Naomi Navarre depicts a glamorous life in Los Angeles, hundreds of miles from her home in Kentucky.

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“I know she lived in Beverly Hills,” Zorbas said. “I know she bought all these expensive clothes to take pictures of.”

He says her passport photo contrasts sharply with the actress he knew.

“The difference is so drastic that I don’t want to believe it’s true,” he said.

Zorbas told LEX 18’s Evelyn Schultz that Fields was an “angel” and “every director’s dream.”

He had contacted her to star in another film he was making, but he says he never heard back from her and they lost contact in 2020.

Now Zorbas must think about the film they made together and its uncanny resemblance to a real-life horror story.

“The last scene, literally the last shot of the movie, shows her in prison,” he said of Fields’ character, Victoria.

Torilena Fields is due back in court on November 12.