‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ EP Liz Tigelaar On The Challenges Of Adapting An Advice Column Into A Series – Contenders TV

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It was on the set of Wild that Tiny Beautiful Things author and executive producer Cheryl Strayed knew she wanted to work with Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Dern again after having “so much fun” collaborating together. RELATED: Deadline Contenders Television 2023 Arrivals & Panels Gallery Strayed said Saturday at the Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event that the trio ended up becoming “very dear friends” adding that their work is something that she “deeply admired” and women who she could trust would honor her memoir.

Executive producer Liz Tigelaar said that she had been a fan of Strayed’s work and when she was approached by Witherspoon’s producing partner Lauren Neustadter about the adaptation she immediately said, “Yes, I’m in!

And then, I was like, ‘I have no idea, how do you adapt advice columns?'” Hulu’s Tiny Beautiful Things stars Kathryn Hahn as Clare, a writer who reluctantly becomes an advice columnist amid a heavy period in her life with flashbacks to her youth. RELATED: The – Deadline’s Full Coverage Tigelaar said that it was the “Ghost Ship” column that shaped the show: “In essence, the show became a ghost ship show.

We started to imagine, ‘What if Cheryl hadn’t hiked the Pacific Crest trail? And what if she hadn’t become this famous writer and accomplished her dreams and goals?