'The Last Thing He Told Me': All the Differences Between the Book and Show
etonline.comJennifer Garner is back on TV! The actress stars in Apple TV+'s limited series, The Last Thing He Told Me, which is based on Laura Dave's book of the same name.In the limited series, Garner plays Hannah, a woman who works to find out her husband, Owen's (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), secrets after he mysteriously disappears.
Along the way she has the help of her teenage stepdaughter, Bailey (Angourie Rice) and her journalist pal, Jules (Aisha Tyler), as well as a U.S.
Marshal (Augusto Aguilera) and Owen's past professor (Victor Garber).While many book adaptations take liberties in terms of plot and characters, fans of Dave's novel will be delighted to know that the show and book largely line up.
That's likely due to the fact that Dave herself co-created and adapted the show, which is produced by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine, alongside Josh Singer.Faithful as the show may be, there are changes, none of which Dave had difficulty enacting.«I started writing it all the way back in 2011 and I threw out 70,000 words of it sometime around 2016, so I was very used to throwing things away,» Dave told ET of her novel, which was published in 2021.
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