Were you a fan of Cheryl Strayed before this project? This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Tigelaar, who was the showrunner on “Little Fires Everywhere” (which starred Witherspoon), apologized for being frazzled during our recent video interview by saying, “I definitely have a lot of Claire in me,” though she comes across as warmer and more together than Claire. This time, Strayed and fellow executive producers Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern (both of whom starred in the movie version of Strayed’s smash hit memoir, “Wild”) brought in Liz Tigelaar as the showrunner. Strayed and husband Brian Lindstrom tried creating a “Tiny Beautiful Things” series for HBO back in 2015 but the show never got off the ground. But the older Claire veers away wildly, having had none of the success and stability that Strayed has achieved. The framework of younger Claire’s life – growing up working class and estranged from her father, losing her mother, getting married and divorced young, diving into drugs – is often taken directly from Strayed’s life.
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