“Unleashing Imagination: Alma Har’el’s Secret Blueprint for Boldly Transforming Stories into Stunning Adaptations”
Har’el said their changes included “bringing Cleo’s world to life and writing characters that weren’t in the book in order to give it more dimension.”
If a novel has a rich cast already and you want to include them all, go for it! You can also omit characters, combine two or more into one person, or add a new character entirely.
In this show, they added a husband for Cleo. This was, Har’el said, to include a character “who could be a comic and give a different perspective on Blackness at the time that isn’t necessarily the one we are familiar with. All of those decisions were challenging to make.”
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