The message of found community that undergirds parallels the experience the cast and crew had on the set of the Apple TV+ drama. “I cannot overstate what a beautiful collaboration this was,” says showrunner Lee Eisenberg of the series about a chemist turned cooking show host struggling with loss and the unpredictability of life. “If we had an hour, I would tick off about 100 names of people that I would not be talking to you if not for them.
” Chief among them would be actors , Aja Naomi King and Lewis Pullman, who all scored Emmy nominations for their work on the adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ novel of the same name, which is also up for outstanding . Eisenberg chats with about how his most important role on the project was letting everyone’s expertise shine. The first person I called was Brie.
We’ve become really close friends, and I was just so thrilled for her. The show would not exist without her. I would not be part of the show without her, and the performance she delivered, every time I see it, it takes my breath away.
She poured so much into that [role], and I think you feel it in every single scene and every single moment. Every show is its own beast and has its own challenges, and I get excited by a project when there’s something that I feel connected to within it. So, for this, my wife and I had just had our daughter at the time that I started working on this, and there was so much about parenting and motherhood and building connections and building a .