![]() Reese Witherspoon, Lauren Neustadter, Richard Abate, Jermaine Johnson and Will Rowbotham were also executive producers. The series was created by and executive-produced by Attica Locke and Tembi Locke. Zoe Saldaña was set to star and executive-produce. The series was announced on November 7, 2019. BraiderĪttica Locke & Tembi Locke and Joshua Allen Giacomo Gianniotti as Giancarlo Caldesi.Attica Locke was series showrunner.Ĭast and characters Main ![]() Its eight episodes premiered on October 21, 2022. Inspired by Tembi Locke's memoir of the same name, it stars Zoe Saldaña and Eugenio Mastrandrea. Life is full of surprises.From Scratch is an American drama limited series created by Attica Locke and Tembi Locke for Netflix. When asked if she has any advice for those of us still searching for love, Tembi quickly answers, and her reply is simple. To this day, Tembi and her daughter split their time between Los Angeles and Sicily, where they spend their summers. That story also felt like one worth telling.” Though she passed away before watching the series, she knew of the book and felt honored to be a part of it. It’s about my love story with Saro and my love story with my mother-in-law. “This story is a love letter to love,” explains Tembi. Saro gave us this big, extended family that crossed cultures and borders.” Tembi and Saro’s love brought our families together. We wanted to show that a good and intense romantic love can open your heart to every type of love. “As her sister, I had a front-row seat to her love story, and when we talked about adapting this into a TV show, we wanted to do it in a very big way. A story that begins when she goes against her family to study abroad and falls in love with art, Italy, and herself,” says Attica. “We knew instinctively that this is a story of epic love in all its forms, from eros to agape, and one that centers around a black woman's coming-of-age. It was also essential to include the love of family and the universal love that holds together our shared humanity. With the memoir and TV series, the sisters wanted to tell a story about love in all forms, including romantic love and love of culture, food, and travel. As storytellers, the Locke sisters agreed they had to be fully authentic. Tembi explains that she felt a responsibility to tell her love story and to be completely transparent in portraying the complexity of it. Neither imagined at the time that Tembi’s book would become a huge success nor that the two would go on a journey together to adapt her memoir for television. ![]() The memoir also serves as a blueprint for my daughter, for the kind of love I hope she finds someday.”Ībout ten years ago, Tembi went to her sister Attica and asked, “What do I do with everything I just experienced, what I learned about life and love?” Her memoir was the answer. I felt I’d suffer another grief if I didn’t write down what I’d experienced. It had been five years since Saro’s death, and the feelings were still raw. Writing the memoir and sharing her story, said Tembi, was therapeutic though she didn’t realize that at the outset. The Sicilian countryside became a place of healing for her and her daughter with its nourishing, fresh food and close-knit community. They lived in his tiny farming town, and she felt solace with his family. The memoir chronicles three summers Tembi spent in Sicily with her daughter, Zoela, as the two discovered life without him. After his diagnosis, they adopted a baby girl and had the joy of becoming parents together. Life was good, and then Saro was diagnosed with cancer, and all their dreams of a long life together were shattered. In time, however, the two families would become one. ![]()
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