Rachel Shukert rebooted Ann M. Martin's novels for the 21st Century in the new Netflix series TheBabySittersClub. She chatted with THR about making the show appeal to both adults and kids, and what she's planning for season two
after having a baby when she got an email asking whether she'd readas a kid. The answer, like many Gen X and millennial women, was a resounding yes. But it had been years since she revisited the iconic '80s and '90s book series about a group of suburban Connecticut pre-teens who start a hotline for local parents to call and book them as babysitters.
The main characteristics of each girl are the same — Kristy is a tomboy, Mary-Anne is a shy bookworm, Stacey is a sophisticated city girl with diabetes, Claudia is an artistic free spirit, and Dawn is a new-age California transplant. Claudia is, as she was in the books, Japanese-American, but the club is much more racially diverse with the casting of Gomez as Dawn and Baker as Mary-Anne.
That was the breakthrough of it all, the landline. I feel like it works because none of us are really living only fully in the time period that we're in. If they made a movie of you in 2020, you wouldn't only talk about movies that came out this year, or songs that came out this year. Everybody's references are from their entire lives and it was something that we thought about a lot, actually, on, because that's a show where everybody's living in the '80s.
Our casting directors saw I think over 2,000 auditions and then we, the producers, saw like 1000. We wanted the girls to feel fresh and natural, and not necessarily the most polished child actors, ones who felt really for the part and could bring themselves to the part. There was some trial and error to how old they needed to be. At first we were like, maybe we'll cast them a little younger than they're supposed to be and then they can get older and grow into the role.
The books are quite episodic and contained, but what big story arcs arcs there are mostly have to do with the parents. They have to do with Kristy's mom getting remarried or Mary-Anne's dad and Dawn's mom finding each other and realizing oh my god my high school sweetheart is single again and living in the town I'm living in, and slowly starting the relationship. The things that carry over from episode to episode, a lot of them really have to do with the parents.
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