The Dancing for the Devil Filmmakers Want to Clear Up One Thing About the Wilking Sisters

glamour.com:

first learned of an alleged cult disrupting the LA dance community, the most important thing they had to do was establish trust with the family at the forefront of exposing its leader.When the Wilkings family in a desperate attempt to reestablish contact with their estranged daughter Miranda Wilking (now ) in February 2022, many of the TikTok dancer’s fans accused them of clout chasing.

Despite their concerns that Miranda had been brainwashed by Shekinah Church pastor Robert Shinn, some thought Kelly and Dean Wilking were the ones over their “cash cow.” Meanwhile, Miranda's younger sister Melanie was believed to be of her sibling's solo success and eager to maintain “" social media brand.After all, many of the dancers associated with Shinn's talent management company 7M seemed to be living their dreams in stunning Hollywood homes, , and on Most recently, one was even , the fictional boy band from new romance flick, .Even those who immediately believed the Wilking family's allegations might be surprised to learn they were reluctant to appear in a major Netflix exposé.

Considering their first viral plea led to a of and connected them to other parents who'd lost contact with 7M dancers, their prominence in the documentary series felt inevitable.

According to executive producer Jessica Acevedo, this wasn't really the case.“If anything, establishing that relationship with [the Wilkings] and that comfort for them to even participate in the documentary [took] the longest," she told Glamour over Zoom. “They were so afraid of just losing Miranda completely that I do want to just share that it was not an easy decision for them to go live.