While preparing to portray Jennette McCurdy ‘s mother, Jennifer Aniston quickly found common ground with the I’m Glad My Mom Died author.

The Golden Globe winner explained that she has “a lot in common” with the Nickelodeon alum, whose memoir she is being adapted into an Apple TV+ series, with Aniston starring and executive producing. “We had very similar moms,” she said.

McCurdy wrote in her 2022 book about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother, who died in 2013. The New York Times #1 bestseller was based on her one-woman show of the same name.

“When it came across my desk as an option, an offer to play this character and work with Jennette and Sharon Horgan and LuckyChap, I was pretty much immediately intrigued and flattered

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