While preparing to portray Jennette McCurdy‘s mother, Jennifer Aniston quickly found common ground with the I’m Glad My Mom Died author.
The Golden Globe winner explained that she has “a lot in common” with the Nickelodeon alum, whose memoir she is being adapted into an Apple TV+ series, with Aniston starring and executive producing. “We had very similar moms,” she said.
McCurdy wrote in her 2022 book about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother, who died in 2013. The New York Times #1 bestseller was based on her one-woman show of the same name.
“When it came across my desk as an option, an offer to play this character and work with Jennette and Sharon Horgan and LuckyChap, I was pretty much immediately intrigued and flattered and excited,” Aniston told People. “It’s going to be wonderful. It’s going to be pretty great to start shooting it.”
Aniston praised the memoir as “so beautifully written,” and noted that McCurdy “is so special,” adding, “The fact that she’s the young woman that she is, having lived that life, is nothing short of remarkable.”
In July, Deadline reported that Apple TV+ greenlit a dramedy series inspired by I’m Glad My Mom Died, with Aniston attached.
Hailing from Apple Studios, the 10-episode I’m Glad My Mom Died is written, executive produced and showrun by child actor-turned-writer McCurdy and Ari Katcher (Ramy, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show).
I’m Glad My Mom Died is a heartbreaking and funny recounting of Jennette McCurdy’s struggles as a former child actor while dealing with her overbearing, domineering mother. The dramedy will center on the codependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kid’s show, and her narcissistic mother (Aniston) who relishes in her identity as “a starlet’s mother.”
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