Jennifer Aniston has a powerful bond with I'm Glad My Mother Died costar and writer Jennette McCurdy.
“We've got rather a lot in widespread,” Aniston, 56, instructed People in an interview revealed on Friday, October 17. “We had very related mothers.”
Aniston recalled the second McCurdy's guide and the tailored TV collection had been each delivered to her consideration.
“When it got here throughout my desk as an possibility, a suggestion to play this character and work with Jennette and Sharon Horgan and LuckyChap, I used to be just about instantly intrigued and flattered and excited,” she instructed the outlet. “It's going to be great. It's going to be fairly nice to begin capturing it.”
Of her younger costar, Aniston added, “The truth that she's the younger lady that she is, having lived that life, is nothing in need of outstanding.”
McCurdy, 33, whose mom Debra died in 2013, revealed her memoir I'm Glad My Mother Died in 2022. The guide nearly instantly topped the bestseller checklist, due partially to the writer's no holds barred peek into Jennette's life with Debra.
“It's one thing I imply sincerely,” Jennette instructed BuzzFeed Information in August 2022 concerning the title of the guide. “I'm genuinely glad. If she had been alive, I'd nonetheless be trapped. Each essential resolution in my life wouldn't have been attainable.”
Apple TV+ ordered a primary season of a TV adaptation of the guide in July 2025. The ten-episode season will probably be written, govt produced and showrun by Jennette and Ari Katcher. Aniston, Sharon Horgan and Merman, LuckyChap, Jerrod Carmichael and Erica Kay function govt producers.
Jennette McCurdy Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic
In 2022, Jennette instructed The Hollywood Reporter that her relations supported the title of the guide and its launch.
“My brothers have been so supportive, so understanding,” she instructed the outlet, earlier than including that her siblings had been “by no means” thrown off by the selection. “They get the title, to place it merely. It was additionally a title that I knew I needed early on.”
Jennette continued, “I needed one thing that was daring and in addition one thing that I meant sincerely. I might by no means use a daring and attention-grabbing title if it weren't genuine. I might by no means do it if it had been simply coming from a flippant place. That's not my strategy to humor. I knew that anyone who had skilled parental abuse would perceive the title, and anyone who had a humorousness would perceive the title.”
The iCarly star added that she spent vital time in remedy earlier than penning the memoir.
“I undoubtedly laughed a ton whereas writing; I cried whereas writing,” she defined. “As a result of I've achieved a lot of the work privately and for myself initially, I do assume I used to be at a spot the place I used to be capable of form of discern what features of my life are legitimately entertaining and price folks studying about, and what features of my life usually are not entertaining. I believe I waited the suitable period of time in my processing earlier than approaching this in any type of a artistic manner.”
