When Tom Perrotta sat down to adapt his 2017 novel “Mrs. Fletcher” into a seven-episode limited series of the same name for HBO, he was facing a world that had changed in the way people spoke about…
” into a seven-episode limited series of the same name for HBO, he was facing a world that had changed in the way people spoke about gender and sexuality from when he was penning the book. So although he still had a very specific piece of source material from which to draw, he approached the limited series as a new telling and told his writers’ room the book wasn’t to be taken as the “ultimate authority” on the tale.
Perrotta is hardly alone with the task he undertook to transform specific source material into a televised event. However, he, at least, had the luxury of being the architect of the original version, a fictional tale of a middle-aged mother who experiments with her sexuality when her son goes off to college. That undoubtedly granted him more freedom to make changes as he saw fit.
“The opportunity we have in television is that you build a real sympathy for these characters, and you feel what they feel,” says “Woo’s anthology drama followed Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II. They were not just facing the complications of having their lives stolen, but also a literal haunting by the ghost of someone from their past. Woo was able to lean on actor and consultant George Takei’s personal experience as a child in one of those camps, among other accounts.
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