We spoke w/ 'Daisy Jones & The Six' author Taylor Jenkins Reid about bringing the story to TV.
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name from Taylor Jenkins Reid, the Amazon Studios/Hello Sunshine series Daisy Jones & The Six tells the story of the meteoric rise and crash-and-burn implosion of the iconic 1970s band, fronted by Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne .
TAYLOR JENKINS REID: You’re assuming that I’ve processed it. I was writing for a long time, before I wrote Daisy Jones, but Daisy Jones felt very special and like a really great opportunity for an adaptation. Any time I finish a book, one of my first calls is Brad [Mendelsohn]. He reads it, and then we sit down and talk about how we could see it going. Anytime you’re a woman writing stories about women, you hope Reese [Witherspoon] calls.
REID: I remember having a conversation with Brad, where I really had wanted to work with Hello Sunshine, and I really thought that the Scott Neustadter idea was fantastic. What came up was, “Well, his wife did just start Hello Sunshine.” And so, the idea was to send it to Scott Neustadter and see if he told his wife. I didn’t think it would actually work, I will be honest about that.
MENDELSOHN: I mean, what isn’t it, to be honest? She starts with incredible characters and puts them in settings that we all wish we had lived through or have been through, during that time, whether it’s in the sixties, seventies, eighties, or beyond. At the end of the day, she has this insight into the human condition that I find wildly compelling. Obviously, now, millions of other people have also found that, as well.
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