Cheryl Strayed and Liz Tigelaar on ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ WGA strike reactions
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
“Tiny Beautiful Things” series creator and showrunner Liz Tigelaar and author Cheryl Strayed discuss the kismet of their collaboration and adapting the acclaimed book into a Hulu limited series.
First — you might have heard — the Writers Guild of America is on strike. How will other guilds react? And when and how could the strike end?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. Cheryl Strait is the best-selling author of Wild |
| 0:08.3 | about her solo journey on the Pacific Crest Trail and Tiny Beautiful Things, a book based on her |
| 0:14.4 | experience as the advice columnist, Dear Sugar. Reese Witherspoon played Strait in the movie version of |
| 0:20.1 | Wild, and thanks to various |
| 0:21.9 | adaptations of tiny beautiful things, Strait has had a chance to see even more versions of herself |
| 0:27.3 | on stage and screen. Every time I see another person playing me or Sugar, I think that we live |
| 0:35.1 | our lives originally, but the experiences we have, the big, |
| 0:38.1 | significant experiences we have are timeless and universal. And so I love that I get to kind of feel |
| 0:43.6 | that in action in the form of all of these people playing versions of me. In the new Hulu |
| 0:48.5 | series, Tiny Beautiful Things, Catherine Hahn plays the character loosely based on Strayed. To adapt the book, Reese Witherspoon's production company, Hello Sunshine, matched Strayed |
| 0:58.5 | with series creator and showrunner Liz Tigilar. |
| 1:01.9 | Strayed and Tigilar join us today. |
| 1:04.4 | But first we banter. |
| 1:05.8 | Stick around. |
| 1:06.5 | It's the business from KCRW. |
| 1:11.0 | I am joined by my associate and banter, Matt Bellany. |
| 1:14.5 | Hello, Matt. |
| 1:15.1 | Hi there. |
| 1:16.1 | So, as long predicted, the writers are on strike now. |
| 1:20.6 | They have some issues that, as expressed by Danny Strong, who's been on this show more than |
| 1:25.5 | once, most recently, He was the talent behind |
| 1:27.7 | dopesick. This is an existential fight in view of the writers. There are multiple issues, |
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