After turning heads with her series acting debut in Amazon’sHomecoming,Julia Robertshas signed on to star in Apple’s limited seriesThe Last Thing He Told Me, which the actress will also executive produce alongside fellow Oscar winnerReese Witherspoon.
Laura Dave’s upcoming novel follows a woman who forms an unexpected relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.
Witherspoon’s company Hello Sunshine optioned the book and will serve as the studio alongside 20th Television. Apple landed the project in a competitive situation and has given it a straight-to-series order. Dave co-created the show and adapted the book alongside her Oscar-winning husbandJosh Singer, who won an Oscar for writingSpotlight. The series marks the couple’s second collaboration together.
Witherspoon and her Hello Sunshine partnerLauren Neustadterwill executive produce along with Roberts,Marisa Yeres GillandLisa Gillanof Red Om Films, as well as Singer and Dave, whose book will be published by Simon & Schuster on July 14, 2025.
The Last Thing He Told Memarks the latest collaboration between Apple and Hello Sunshine, which is also behind Witherspoon’sThe Morning Show, theOctavia SpencerseriesTruth Be Toldand theupcoming psychological thrillerSurfacestarringGugu Mbatha-Raw, as well as the music competition seriesMy Kind of Country.
This sounds like an interesting project for Roberts, who must be looking atNicole Kidman’s recent TV career with some degree of envy, though I sure wish she’d get her long-gestating PTA mom movieFramedoff the ground, even if it’s as a streaming series.
Roberts recently starred in the first season of Amazon’sHomecomingas well as the indie movieBen Is Back. She’ll reunite withHomecomingmaestroSam Esmailfor the upcoming seriesGaslit, which is described as a modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time. Roberts is also set to star oppositeDenzel Washingtonin Esmail’s intriguing Netflix movieLeave the World Behind, and you canclick herefor more details on that project.
