We spoke w/ 'Dear Edward' creator Jason Katims about reuniting with Connie Britton and telling emotionally moving stories.
From creator Jason Katims and based on the novel by Ann Napolitano, the Apple TV+ original series Dear Edward explores the lives of the family and friends who lost someone in the same plane crash that had one lone survivor, a 12-year-old boy. Trying to figure out how to deal with his own grief, Edward Adler doesn’t feel like the miracle boy the world considers him to be, having lost his parents and older brother in the tragedy.
JASON KATIMS: In this case, my agent sent me the book, and I read it and I loved it. I talked to Ann Napolitano, and we talked about the possibility of me taking it and making it into a show. That’s how it happened. There were things that I wanted to do that would depart a little bit from the book to make it into a show, and I got her blessing. That’s how it happened. I saw in it this story about resilience and the human spirit.
When it came to adding characters that weren’t in the book, what was the process for making those decisions? Was it just about what you need to keep the story going for a longer time span? Was it about coming up with interesting ideas that then seem like a good fit and you can weave them in? How did you figure that out?
KATIMS: What happened was that one of the characters that I came up with was this character, Dee Dee. I was not thinking about Connie, at the time. I just fell in love with this character. And then, when we started working with the writers, everybody loved Dee Dee. I don’t know what it was about her, there was just something about her. And then, we started having early conversations about casting, and Connie came into my mind. From the time that happened, I could only see Connie in that role.
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