“I’m jealous you get to meet her,” an worker working behind the scenes at a latest press alternative for “Daisy Jones & the Six” advised some journalists.
The “her” in query was not Riley Keough, the star of the Amazon restricted sequence, or any of the present’s different feminine stars. It was Taylor Jenkins Reid, the bestselling writer behind a celebrity-infused, decades-spanning literary universe suffused with glitz and grit: “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” “Daisy Jones,” “Malibu Rising” and “Carrie Soto is Back.”
“Daisy Jones,” debuting Friday on Prime Video, is the primary Reid adaptation to hit the display screen and others are within the works.
Reid and her husband, Alex, tailored an early guide, “One True Loves,” which stars Phillipa Soo and Simu Liu and opens April 7. She’s additionally written a screenplay along with her greatest good friend, which Kay Cannon (“Pitch Perfect”) is slated to direct.
Reid says she at all times knew she needed to work in Hollywood and calls writing books “a happy accident.” She initially moved out to Los Angeles to work in casting however when she wrote her first novel, “Forever Interrupted,” she knew that was what she was meant to do.
“I found this piece of myself I never anticipated,” she says. Now, to have Hollywood come calling for her work, Reid says, is “really fun.”
Reid spoke with The Associated Press about the way forward for her guide sequence, the intertwining threads and the standing of that “Evelyn Hugo” adaptation. The transcript has been condensed for brevity.
AP: You’ve stated that your most up-to-date novel, “Carrie Soto is Back,” is the final in your sequence of books about celebrities. Is that true?
It’s not one thing that I come to simply. I ache to return to this world. I ache to return to every one in every of these books. I miss them after I’m finished with them. And they by no means really feel like they by no means really feel over for me. It at all times seems like a possibility to return to them is so welcome.
But I’ve likened it somewhat bit to, you understand, it’s senior yr of highschool and .. it’s vital that we go develop and do different issues and discover new challenges. That is what I’m planning on doing. It is just not as a result of I’m able to go as a lot as I simply understand it’s time.
AP: The character of Mick Riva, a playboy, smooth-talking crooner reveals up in every of these books. Why?
First and foremost, I write about ladies and I’m fascinated with ladies, however ladies are very affected by the selections of males and lots of time ladies are left holding the bag. When males make the selections that they do, that they type of escape unscathed. There are lots of males in our tradition who preserve making fairly massive errors, and it doesn’t stick with them, however there are ladies behind these males coping with the implications of these males’s actions.
While I do write about ladies, I needed to place forth a person who will get away with it. I do know individuals hate him. And I do know after they see his title in books, they get mad. But I would like you to be mad as a result of there are a lot of, many, many Mick Rivas on this planet. I believe we might all do nicely to look out and see if we are able to spot any of them, as a result of they’re getting away with rather a lot and so they’re permitting the ladies round them to be the one to choose up the items, whether or not it’s whether or not it’s Nina Riva or it’s Evelyn Hugo or it’s Daisy Jones at a celebration or it’s Javier Soto lastly being the one that calls them out.
Not each man is Mick Riva, however there are lots of Mick Rivas on this planet.
AP: Do you agree that there was a change in tone to your writing from “Evelyn Hugo” on? If so, was it intentional?
Absolutely. I’m unsure it was intentional as a lot because it was truthfully not too much like how I really feel now with the tip of “Carrie Soto.” It was simply time. I need to sort out new and various things, and it’s actually great if you discover this pocket of creativity the place you’re feeling like, “Oh, I can live in this space for a little while and I can tell a lot of stories here,” however I by no means need to keep on the get together too lengthy.
AP: “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” blew up, largely resulting from readers on TikTok posting about it. What was that have like for you?
You most likely heard about it earlier than me, as a result of what occurred to me was I’m sitting at my pc. I get an electronic mail from my agent with the New York Times listing, and she or he’s like, “‘Evelyn Hugo’ simply made The New York Times.” I yelled in my workplace and my husband comes dashing in … and I’m like, “I must be misunderstanding this, right? Can you read this?”
The guide had come out many, a few years earlier than and had not hit the listing when it first got here out. My husband learn it and he’s like, “Nope, I think this is real. I think you’re understanding this.” It took us most likely two weeks to determine the way it had occurred. Everyone stored going, “What led to this bump?” And I’m like, “I don’t know.” Then my supervisor, Brad, he goes, “I think it was something called BookTok.” I used to be like, “What’s that?” And he began displaying me that there have been all these younger ladies speaking about “Evelyn Hugo” on TikTok. I felt very seen as a result of I’m very, very pleased with that guide and to have it take off with readers, particularly younger ladies, simply felt actually good.
AP: Netflix is adapting “Evelyn Hugo” into a movie. Did you ever surprise how they will match a narrative of a lady who had seven husbands right into a film?
I did. Then I learn the script and I’m not involved, however I get it. I perceive. It’s not dissimilar to the expertise on “Daisy Jones.” You have to choose the fitting individuals and belief them. Liz Tigelaar, who wrote the script, is an exceptional expertise, and I stated, “I don’t know how you’re going to do this. I think you need to condense the story.” And she stated, “No, I don’t.” … And then she turns within the script and I used to be like, “I was wrong. You were right. You got it.”
AP: Can you share the place the casting course of is at for “Evelyn Hugo”?
There isn’t any news however I’ll say that who’s going to play Evelyn Hugo and who may play Celia St. James are at all times on the forefront of my thoughts. There isn’t any definitive reply (however) there’s only a brief listing of ladies that I’m extremely, extremely enthusiastic about.
AP: During the peak of the pandemic you additionally wrote a screenplay along with your greatest good friend Ashley — who was not a author previous to this — bought it, and Kay Cannon will direct. Not everybody would take an opportunity like that.
I grew up with little or no, and I’ve a lot greater than I ever dreamed. I by no means thought individuals would learn my books at this fee. I by no means thought that Hollywood would come calling. I’ve been so blessed that if all I’m doing is taking that in and I’m not utilizing that mild to bounce it on others, I’m unsure why I’m doing this.
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