Insecure alum and How To Die Alone creator Natasha Rothwell felt a sisterly connection when she met TikTok sensation Reesa Teesa of the viral “Who TF Did I Marry?” collection.
Based on PEOPLE, the pair are set to adapt the 52-part social media hit right into a TV collection and Rothwell says she felt an immediate camaraderie to each her story in addition to who she was as an individual.
“It was not her trauma that me and [made me] wish to throw my hat within the ring, it was her — who she is as an individual, how she survived all of it — and viral fame, how she’s surviving that,” she mentioned. I used to be like, ‘Oh, now that is once I lean in.’”
After successful an intense bidding struggle for manufacturing rights, Rothwell was capable of seal the deal on bringing Reesa Teesa‘s story to Hollywood and met up along with her in individual for the primary time final month. She mentioned the 2 felt “like twins” proper from the beginning.
“We had been simply in such a mutual love bubble of simply having fun with one another and understanding one another and studying about one another,” she mentioned.
Although social media got here to know Reesa Teesa via a riveting and insane story about her ex-husband, Rothwell guarantees to carry extra to the desk than what we’ve already heard.
“I’m undoubtedly excited to method her story in a 360 [degree] manner and never simply…retell the story we’ve all consumed,” she mentioned. “I believe she’s much more attention-grabbing than what has occurred to her.”
Within the meantime, Rothwell has her palms full after the premiere of How To Die Alone. The critically acclaimed Hulu collection has everybody celebrating on her behalf. After making us fall in love along with her as Kelly on Issa Rae’s Insecure and inflicting us all to root for her on HBO’s White Lotus, Rothwell is lastly taking the lead position in a present that chronicles the loneliness and monotony of maturity.