Showrunner Liz Tigelaar is behind the red-hot adaptation of Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel.
“Through the story, that notion gets unraveled in both of them.
But nothing’s quite as it seems.
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“I met Celeste at a conference,” remembers Witherspoon.
“It was clear that she had really incredible skills as a screenwriter.”
As Ng writes in the book, the city has rules.
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And that’s where Mia comes in: She’s going to pop that bubble.
She’s an artist who works a day job to pay the bills.
Things become more complicated when the pair find themselves on opposing sides of a court case.
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Elena defends her friend’s right to raise the child, and Mia sides with Bebe.
“It’s a think piece,” says Witherspoon.
“Do we value money over biology?”
Bebe’s abandoment of her child isn’t her only hurdle: She’s also an undocumented immigrant.
“There are three different classes represented.
“It’s about what you do with new information,” says Witherspoon.
“Do you soften to it, or does it break you?
In other words, do you adapt or do you burn it all down?
The biggest difference between the homes they’ve made is that only one of them ends up in flames.
