After signing on to star in Hulu's "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox," the actor only had two months to prepare for the role: "It was nice to kind of have a fire under me."

"She finally honors that young person that I was and the person I am today," Knox tells PEOPLE of the actress, who helped tell the story of her wrongful murder conviction

The "Tell Me Lies" star hopes the Hulu series about Knox will "give people an opportunity to form an opinion based on the facts, as opposed to the bias."