Asher Keddie ‘lined up to play’ lead in TV adaptation of Mamamia founder’s 2017 memoir
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Asher Keddie is ‘queuing to play’ starring role in TV adaptation of Mamamia founder’s 2017 memoir Work Strife Balance
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Popular Australian actress Asher Keddie stars in a TV series based on the memoir of controversial journalist Mia Freedman.
The show is based on the Mamamia founder’s 2017 book, Work Strife Balance, but Asher, 48, won’t be playing Mia in the series reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
Instead, the fan favorite will use Mia as “loose inspiration” for the role, which revolves around a female publisher and mother of three.
Popular Australian actress Asher Keddie stars in a TV series based on Work Strife Balance, the memoir of controversial journalist and Mamamia founder Mia Freedman
Mia, now 51, first rose to fame as the youngest ever editor of the massive Cosmopolitan magazine when she was 25.
She shares three children with husband Jason Lavigne: sons, Luca, 24, and Remy, 13, and daughter, Coco, 16.
According to the report, Asher’s character will not be named Mia, but the role will share some “striking similarities” in the planned series, which will be a comedy-drama.
Sydney-based production company Made Up Stories is currently developing a script for the series.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Asher Keddie will not play Mia in the upcoming comedy-drama, but the role will share some “striking similarities” with famed publisher Pictured: Mia Freedman
Filmmaker Bruna Papandrea, who was behind Nicole Kidman’s Amazon Prime Video streaming hit Nine Perfect Strangers, will produce the Freedman series.
Earlier this month, The Daily Telegraph revealed that Mia will appreciate the new show as a producer.
Meanwhile, the report also revealed that screenwriter Sarah Scheller of the ABC hit show, The Letdown, is involved in the development of the show.
Filmmaker Bruna Papandrea, who was behind Nicole Kidman’s Amazon Prime Video streaming hit Nine Perfect Strangers, will produce the Freedman series Pictured: The cover of Mia’s best-selling memoir of 2017, soon to be a TV series
An insider told the paper that fans should not expect a faithful adaptation of Mia’s book.
“It’s a broader story about what happens in society to women who want and can have everything,” they explain to the publication.
In her candid memoir, Ms. Freedman talks about her abortion, anxiety, and bulimia — and says writing the book is the hardest thing she’s ever done.
For nearly two decades, Ms. Freedman has struggled to maintain the work-life balance that so many working moms do—and felt guilty, too.
Asher Keddie in a scene from Nine Perfect Strangers