Exclusive Interview: Josie Adams Reveals Untold Secrets Behind We Thought They’d Never Leave with Tony Shalhoub
We sat down and had a blue-sky session where I asked what are some stories that immediately come to mind, and when he thinks of each of his brothers and sisters, what is he reminded of? So everybody got a little bit into the book. I would give him prompts like, “What is your earliest food memory?” I really enjoyed coaching my dad and getting his stories out of him. He always took the first pass at a chapter, and then he would send it back to me and I would expand it. For example, if he wrote, “I walked down to the water,” I wanted to know what the weather was like that day. What did it look like, what did it smell like? And I would expand it. So, he would give me the story beats and have his humor and his voice in his first pass, and then I would dive into it deeper.
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