Jean Smart is currently working on the third season of Hacks, but that’s not the only major TV project she has on the way. The five-time Emmy winner will lead a limited series about an elderly woman who finds support in her grandson during the final months of her life.
Based on Kevin Hershey’s New York Times article Love Letter: When My Grandmother Stopped Eating, this limited series has been described as a poignant and funny story about a woman at the end of her life and her grandson who reluctantly becomes her caretaker.
As Jean’s character approaches the final months of her life, her 20-something gay grandson agrees to move into her Catholic senior living facility, where she lives alongside a group of traditional and hippie nuns.
Smart will also produce this project alongside her SmartAngel Entertainment partner Angeliki Giannakopoulos. Dennis Erdman and Clark Peterson, who acquired Hershey’s life rights, are coming on board as executive producers.
Smart currently stars as an aging stand-up comedy legend Deborah Vance in the Max series Hacks, which earned her one Primetime Emmy Award. Her recent credits also include the HBO mini-series Mare of Easttown and the films Wildflower and Babylon.
