LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennette McCurdy’s extensively acclaimed memoir “I’m Glad My Mother Died” will probably be tailored right into a collection on Apple TV+, with Jennifer Aniston to star in a job modeled after McCurdy’s mom.
The ten-episode dramedy was written by McCurdy and movie producer Ari Katcher. The pair will function co-showrunners and can govt produce the collection alongside Aniston, Apple introduced Tuesday.
McCurdy began performing at age 8 and rose to fame as a co-star on Nickelodeon present “iCarly” with Miranda Cosgrove, later reprising her position as Sam within the spinoff “Sam & Cat ”reverse Ariana Grande. Her memoir recounts being “emotionally, mentally and physically abused” by her mom all through her childhood.
The present will heart across the “codependent relationship” between a young female actor in a popular kid’s show and her “narcissistic mother,” based on the assertion. No casting has been introduced for the kid star, who’s described by Apple as being 18.
McCurdy’s bestselling ebook launched in August 2022, following years of remedy the actor stated was very important in permitting her to completely take care of her mom’s demise because of most cancers issues in 2013.
The title is attention-grabbing and, she stated, completely true.
“With my mother’s death, I’d go from being so, so deeply angry to then feeling just so sorry for her. And so I could feel compassion and sympathy and then just anger and rage,” McCurdy informed The Related Press in 2022. “I’d cry because I missed her and I’d be angry that I was crying that I missed her and feel she doesn’t deserve these tears. I think abusive love is so complicated … It’s going to be mixed and messy.”
McCurdy’s ebook detailed the difficulties in dealing with her fame whereas concurrently navigating her mom’s sickness.
“As agonizing as it’s to be within the ambulance with my mom whereas she’s convulsing in the course of a seizure, to lookup and see my face (on a billboard) felt like my life was mocking me,” McCurdy informed the AP.
Aniston’s casting follows her collaboration with Apple TV+ on “The Morning Show,” which she additionally stars in and govt produces. The present’s fourth season is ready to premiere Sept. 17.
