“Little Fires Everywhere” is a successful miniseries aired on HULU, and huge buzz was created around the series when it was first released.
Let’s find out more about the series!
- Little Fires Everywhere is an American drama streaming television miniseries.
- It aired on HULU.
- It is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Celeste Ng.
- It premiered on Hulu on March 18, 2020.
- It consists of eight episodes.
- The series stars Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.
- Both of them were also executive producers, alongside Liz Tigelaar, Lauren Neustadter, and Pilar Savone.
- The miniseries is set in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio during the late 1990s.
- It features Witherspoon and Washington as mothers from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Little Fires Everywhere is Witherspoon’s first book club pick to be made into a TV series.
- Since first launching Witherspoon’s Book Club back in June 2017, Witherspoon has shone the spotlight on an impressive 36 books by women, including the much-loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Daisy Jones and the Six. However, as much as Witherspoon has waxed lyrical about each and every tome she’s chosen, Celeste Ng’s novel is the first book that’s been optioned for a TV series.
- Prior to Little Fires Everywhere being published, Ng sent an advanced copy to Witherspoon.
- Ng admitted to Witherspoon that prior to the actress choosing Little Fires Everywhere for her book club and consequently turning it into a TV show, that she said to her husband, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if in some magical universe Reese Witherspoon read my book, wanted to produce it, and wanted to be [lead character] Elena?’.
- If you look closely, you’ll see a star appearance from the book’s author, who plays one of the mums in Elena’s book club.
- Kerry Washington took inspiration from her own mum to play Mia.
- To prepare for the role of Mia, Kerry studied photography at the School of Light in Los Angeles and shadowed other artists.
- Also, one of the photographers Kerry worked with and studied, Connie Martin, created all of Mia’s photography for the series.
- While Shaker Heights, Ohio is the real-life location where Little Fires Everywhere is set, the filming actually took place in LA, near to where both Washington and Witherspoon reside.
- This is down to the production designer Jessica Kender, who took a trip to Ohio for research, and then came back to the west coast to recreate it.
- The ending of the TV series is different from the book (but we won’t say much more).
- A second season is unlike to happen.
- Reese and Joshua Jackson took Jade Pettyjohn, Megan Stott, Gavin Lewis, and Jordan Elsass out for “family dinners” so they could bond.
- Everything inside the Richardsons’ house had to be custom-made by the set designers in order to get the perfect “clean, controlled look.”
- Meanwhile, Mia and Pearl’s apartment was made up of antiques and thrift store purchases so it looked like it was filled with found items.
- Director and producer Lynn Shelton’s inspiration for the lighting for Little Fires Everywhere was Call Me By Your Name.
- Tiffany Boone, who played young Mia, would watch Kerry film scenes and “paid close attention to the way her body moved — the way her head tilted, the way she listened, all of that.”
- Reese was the one who suggested that AnnaSophia Robb play the younger version of Elena — she knew how much AnnaSophia looked like her.
- The writers room actually consisted of some people who grew up near the real Shaker Heights.
- During production, Kerry would run around set, thanking crew members and asking them to give a “#NotSoHumbleBrag” about their work on the series.
- Also, originally there was going to be a mini Dawson’s Creek reunion between Kerr Smith, who played Jack, and Joshua Jackson.
