Jean Smart To Star In End-Of-Life Limited Series In Works At Her SmartAngel Entertainment

Nellie Andreeva
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EXCLUSIVE: Jean Smart (Hacks) is developing a limited series about the relationship between a grandmother and her grandson in the final months of her life, which the Emmy winner will star in and executive produce.

Inspired by Kevin Hershey’s New York Times article “Love Letter: When My Grandmother Stopped Eating“, the project hails from Smart and her producing partner, Angeliki Giannakopoulos, and their SmartAngel Entertainment. Dennis Erdman and Clark Peterson acquired Hershey’s life rights and will executive produce the potential series along with Smart and Giannakopoulos.

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The poignant — and funny — story centers around a grandmother, played by Smart, at the end of her life and her 20-something gay grandson who reluctantly becomes her caretaker. He moves into her Catholic senior living facility, where she lives alongside a mix of traditional and hippie nuns.

The team is currently out to writers to pen the script.

Smart is a five-time Emmy award winner, including back-to-back Lead Actress in a Comedy Series trophies for her role as Deborah Vance on Max’s Hacks, which is finishing its upcoming third season. On the film side, Smart was most recently seen in drama Wildflower, alongside Kiernan Shipka, Alexandra Daddario and Dash Mihok, and in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. She is repped by WME and Untitled Entertainment.

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