Jennifer Garner Replaces Julia Roberts In Apple's 'The Last Thing He Told Me'

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Jennifer Garner has stepped in to replace Julia Roberts in Apple TV+’s limited series The Last Thing He Told Me. Garner will assume the lead role in the drama based on Laura Dave’s novel.

According to Deadline, Roberts had to drop out of the series due to scheduling conflicts. The popular streaming platform had given a straight to series order in December 2020.

In addition to starring, Garner will serve as executive producer of the show, which hails from Reese Witherspoon’s Hellos Sunshine and Disney’s 20th Television. The Last Thing He Told Me will depict the story of a woman (Garner) who forms an unexpected relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.

Dave’s novel was published in May and rose to No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction. She and her husband Josh Singer are adapting the book for Apple.

The Last Thing He Told Me is Garner’s second Apple TV+ series, the first of which being My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, which she is producing alongside her former Alias boss, J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson and Amy Silverstein, who penned the memoir on which it’s based.

Dave, Singer and Garner will executive produce The Last Thing He Told Me with Hello Sunshine’s Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter.

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