Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor four years on the CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” Rachel Bloom mined some of her own life, including her journey with mental health, for her fictional character of Rebecca Bunch.
But, that character quickly became an amalgam of herself, her co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna and various people they knew and writers in their room as time went on.Bloom found herself diving deeper into her own early development experiences for storytelling shows around Los Angeles, and in doing so, she began to realize she had a lot more to say that she couldn’t cover in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” — especially when it came to the concept of “normalcy.” Through her new book, “I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are,” out.
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