D’Arcy Carden felt the stress of placing a five-star efficiency into The 5-Star Weekend.
“There’s a variety of emotion, and I’m a comedy woman,” Carden, 45, mentioned throughout her Monday, December 1, look on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Professional” podcast. “And it was similar to, there have been sure scenes that it was, I don’t know for those who’d name that scared, however it’s that factor the place you’re like, you higher convey it. You gotta present up, and there’s no option to not. It’s important to.”
The 5-Star Weekend is an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s 2023 novel of the identical identify. The story follows meals blogger Hollis Shaw, who invitations 4 buddies from completely different occasions in her life to spend a weekend in Nantucket after her husband’s tragic dying.
“It’s a drama. It’s a comedy-drama. I really don’t know what we’re calling it but,” Carden mentioned of the sequence, which can stream on Peacock. A launch date has not but been introduced. “It’ll come out when it comes out. I don’t know when that’s.”
Maid and This Is Us author Bekah Brunstetter serves because the sequence’ creator, author and govt producer. Jennifer Garner, who additionally serves as an govt producer, will star as Hollis. The 5-Star Weekend’s star-studded forged additionally consists of Chloe Sevigny, Regina Corridor, Gemma Chan, Harlow Jane, Timothy Olyphant, David Denman, Josh Hamilton, Rob Huebel, Judy Greer, West Duchovny, Tory Devon Smith, Henry Eikenberry and Roberta Colindrez.
Carden gushed about a few of her fellow forged members throughout her podcast look, calling Garner, 53, “the most effective.”
“After which Gemma Chan and Regina Corridor. It was this unimaginable … Timothy Olyphant … who we love a lot,” she continued.
Shepard, 50, then requested Carden if Olyphant, 57, “charmed the f***” out of his costars.
“Sure, he charmed the f*** out of my husband … We’re going to dinner with him on Friday. I really like him and his superb spouse. They’re simply cool. They’re so cool,” Carden responded.
Peacock introduced The 5-Star Weekend in January.
The sequence comes after the success of Netflix’s The Good Couple, an adaptation of one other well-liked Hilderbrand novel, in September 2024. A second season based mostly on Hilderbrand’s novel Swan Tune is at present within the works.
Hilderbrand, 56, and showrunner Jenna Lamia advised Deadline on the time that their purpose with The Good Couple was to create a present that seems like “a seaside learn in TV” type.
“That’s what we have been going for,” Lamia mentioned. “As a result of I feel a seaside learn is a superb factor.”
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Hilderbrand added, “I feel Hollywood realized there may be an viewers for this. There will not be simply girls, however lots of people who’re involved in these novels dropped at life.”
In line with Hilderbrand, much more diversifications might doubtlessly be on the best way.
“The Winter Avenue e-book sequence has been optioned, and 28 Summers [has been optioned] with a film firm,” the writer, who has written greater than 30 seaside reads, advised Boston.com in July 2024. “I’m going to hope and pray that The Good Couple is profitable sufficient that these all find yourself getting greenlit. That might be a lot enjoyable, and I will be as concerned or as uninvolved as I wish to be on these.”
