Jessica Knoll had to revisit her own trauma in adapting her novel for Netflix: “Nobody’s gonna care about certain things the way you do”
is set to premiere on Netflix on October 7. Sure, there were many changes and some personnel switch-ups—Witherspoon and Lionsgate are no longer attached, for one—but one thing stayed the same through every iteration: Knoll as screenwriter.
The story follows successful yet prickly magazine editor TifAni FaNelli, played by Kunis, as she’s about to marry the perfect Waspy man who can give her everything she’s dreamed of: Wealth, status, class, and, as a bonus, a new name, one unrelated to a tragedy that befell her in high school. When a filmmaker wants to make a documentary about that traumatic event, her facade begins to crumble.
The book captivated audiences when it first debuted, but Knoll revealed her personal connection to the material in 2016 when she’s now defunct publication Lenny Letter, explaining that the sexual assault described in the book, perpetuated by three popular boys in Ani’s class, was based on an experience from Knoll’s own life. This was part of Knoll’s “fierce protection” over writing the film adaptation.
Since the book came out, so much has changed in terms of the way our culture thinks and talks about gun violence and sexual assault, but also notmuch has changed regarding legislation. How did those evolving conversations influence your adaptation? For the first couple of years that I was going through various revisions of the script, it was always set in contemporary times. But I remember at the end of 2020 or early 2021, I emailed our group of amazing producers and I was like, what do you guys think of setting this in 2015? It simplified the story since so many of the conversations around these issues have changed so much over the years.
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