By Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Joshua Jackson wasn’t allowed to see the scripts for all eight episodes of “Little Fires Everywhere” when he was first approached about playing Reese Witherspoon’s husband on the Hulu series.
They gave him the first seven. “Until I signed on the dotted line, they wouldn’t give me eight,” Jackson says on Thursday’s episode of “The Big Ticket,” Variety and iHeartRadio’s weekly podcast.
The adaptation of Celeste Ng’s novel of the same name stars Witherspoon as Elena Richardson, a well-off suburban mother of four and a small-town newspaper reporter in the 1990s who befriends her new mysterious tenant (Kerry Washington) and her teenaged daughter Pearl (Lexi Underwood).
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