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Jennette McCurdy has formally entered her govt producer period.
Her bestselling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died is being tailored right into a dramedy collection at Apple TV+, and sure—it’s taking place *with* Jennifer Aniston starring and producing alongside her.
The ten-episode present, which has been greenlit by Apple Studios, will comply with an 18-year-old actress on successful children’ present and her difficult, codependent relationship along with her narcissistic mom—performed by Jennifer—who proudly clings to her identification as “a starlet’s mom.”
Jennette isn’t simply the inspiration for the story—she’s writing, govt producing and showrunning the entire thing alongside Ramy author Ari Katcher.
The present will draw immediately from her breakout memoir, which was launched in August 2022 and immediately turned a cultural reset (and a No. 1 New York Occasions bestseller). In it, Jennette opened up in regards to the emotional abuse she endured throughout her childhood and Nickelodeon fame, in addition to the impression of her mom’s demise from most cancers in 2013.
“My complete childhood and adolescence had been very exploited,” she advised The New York Occasions shortly after the guide’s launch. “It nonetheless provides my nervous system a response to say it… There have been instances the place individuals had the very best intentions and possibly didn’t know what they had been doing. And likewise instances the place they did — they knew precisely what they had been doing.”
She additionally described the guide as a turning level in reclaiming her voice. “It felt like lastly I’m saying my phrases and saying issues I wish to be saying. I’m myself.”
For the reason that memoir’s large success, Jennette signed a two-book, seven-figure cope with Penguin Random Home’s Ballantine imprint. In response to her agent Peter McGuigan, she’s now targeted on writing fiction. “Being a novelist is her dream job,” he advised Publishers Weekly.
As for performing? Don’t count on her to return to your display anytime quickly. “I believe issues ought to really feel pure,” she advised The New York Occasions. “A lot of my life was about forcing or pushing issues. So when one thing feels prefer it’s working, I’ll let that be, and the rest can fall by the wayside.”
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