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Rita Wilson (Too Much) has landed a cardinal domiciled successful How to Survive Without Me, HBO Max‘s one-hour play aviator from Berlanti Productions and workplace Warner Bros. Television.
Wilson will play nan domiciled of Beverly. Elegant and loving, pinch an authority earned done contented and experience, Beverly is simply a prolific writer-director and a matriarch who sees her family arsenic her top accomplishment. She yet loses her conflict pinch cancer, but successful existent Beverly fashion, she finds a measurement to support her family connected arsenic they activity done nan condolences of losing their mother.
The HBO Max aviator picks up successful nan aftermath of matriarch Beverly’s passing, arsenic nan De Angelis family person begun to drift, unsure really to negociate their complicated, evolving lives without her guidance. Should they wish to acquisition Beverly’s last work, nan family must find nan clip — and make nan effort — to stay connected and beryllium location for each different done each of life’s challenges yet to come.
Wilson joins a formed including nan antecedently announced Ray Romano, Joshua Jackson, Kaley Cuoco, Julia Schlaepfer, Jack Ball, Kylar Miranda, and Julian Grey.
EP/Writer Greg Berlanti said, “I was partially inspired to create How to Survive Without Me aft losing my mother to crab — wanting to research grief, love, and what it intends for a family to move guardant aft losing nan matriarch astatine its center. Rita Wilson has brought a singular warmth, affectional intelligence, and spot to everything she’s ever done, and I can’t deliberation of anyone amended to beryllium astatine nan halfway of this show’s family. We are thrilled for her to subordinate Ray Romano, Josh Jackson, Kaley Cuoco and nan remainder of this dream formed we’ve been fortunate capable to assemble.”
Clancy Collins White, Warner Bros. Television’s President of Creative Affairs, added, “The domiciled of Beverly is basal to nan cloth of How to Survive Without Me, and we are overjoyed to invited nan incomparable Rita Wilson. Her expertise to bring affectional nuance and gravitas makes her uniquely suited to anchor nan De Angelis family, and we couldn’t ideate a much fitting collaborator to subordinate Greg and Bash successful shaping this world.”
Written by Berlanti and Bash Doran, pinch communicative by Berlanti, Doran and Robbie Rogers, How to Survive Without Me is exec produced by Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, and Robbie Rogers via Berlanti Productions and its wide woody w/WBTV).
Known for roles successful classical films for illustration Sleepless successful Seattle, Mixed Nuts, and That Thing You Do!, Wilson precocious appeared alongside Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe successful nan Netflix bid Too Much from Lena Dunham and Luis Felber. Previously seen connected tv successful Dunham’s Girls, positive bid for illustration Full Circle and The Good Wife, she’s besides precocious been seen successful Apple TV’s The Last Thing He Told Me and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. She is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.
