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Tembi Locke’s bestselling memoir, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, chronicles her winding journey through love and loss, upon the death of her husband Rosario “Saro” Gullo after a decade-long cancer battle with leiomyosarcoma in 2012. Locke, a Black actress from Houston, Texas, and Gullo, a chef from Sicily, Italy, met by chance in Florence, and together they found a shared language through food and cultural exchange.
Netflix’s From Scratch, a limited series led by Zoe Saldaña and inspired by Locke’s book, claimed the top spot on the streamer in its first week with 72 million viewing hours. The contours of the show, which was co-created with Locke’s sister and showrunner Attica Locke, first emerged in 2018 when Tembi’s book was in copyedits. Attica was working on Little Fires Everywhere for Hulu as part of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company,...
Tembi Locke’s bestselling memoir, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, chronicles her winding journey through love and loss, upon the death of her husband Rosario “Saro” Gullo after a decade-long cancer battle with leiomyosarcoma in 2012. Locke, a Black actress from Houston, Texas, and Gullo, a chef from Sicily, Italy, met by chance in Florence, and together they found a shared language through food and cultural exchange.
Netflix’s From Scratch, a limited series led by Zoe Saldaña and inspired by Locke’s book, claimed the top spot on the streamer in its first week with 72 million viewing hours. The contours of the show, which was co-created with Locke’s sister and showrunner Attica Locke, first emerged in 2018 when Tembi’s book was in copyedits. Attica was working on Little Fires Everywhere for Hulu as part of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Evan Nicole Brown
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Note: The following contains spoilers for “From Scratch.”
Showrunner and co-creator Attica Locke repeatedly persuaded her sister Tembi to write down her one-of-a-kind love story in memoir form, which eventually became the New York Times bestselling book “From Scratch,” and now that memoir is a tremendously popular Netflix series.
Both sisters sat down with TheWrap for an interview about adapting Tembi’s memoir into the new Netflix limited series, revealing how they took Tembi’s story from page to screen.
“When I was writing a proposal for my book, and I put all of the themes that were in there, and I’m a first time writer, had never written a book, and literally it’s food, death, love, travel, racism, adoption,” Tembi said. “When the book went out on proposal, some of the early feedback I got was ’Well, she can’t do this. As a new writer you...
Showrunner and co-creator Attica Locke repeatedly persuaded her sister Tembi to write down her one-of-a-kind love story in memoir form, which eventually became the New York Times bestselling book “From Scratch,” and now that memoir is a tremendously popular Netflix series.
Both sisters sat down with TheWrap for an interview about adapting Tembi’s memoir into the new Netflix limited series, revealing how they took Tembi’s story from page to screen.
“When I was writing a proposal for my book, and I put all of the themes that were in there, and I’m a first time writer, had never written a book, and literally it’s food, death, love, travel, racism, adoption,” Tembi said. “When the book went out on proposal, some of the early feedback I got was ’Well, she can’t do this. As a new writer you...
- 10/25/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Some love stories are for the ages. The Netflix adaptation of Tembi Locke's memoir "From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home" took.us on an emotional rollercoaster from the beginning.
Author Tembi Locke wrote and produced the series with her sister Attica Locke (Little Fires Everywhere), who had pitched her book as a movie idea. With the sisters working together, they tried to keep the essence and the heart of the memoir intact.
Amy Wheeler takes time off from law school to pursue her dream of art in Florence. While she studies there, Amy meets Sicilian chef Lino. They fall in love as their paths keep crossing.
While Amy (Zoe Saldano) and Lino (Eugenio Masteandrea) had sizzling chemistry, developing them in the series premiere took too much time. We didn't need to devote half an episode to rich boy Giancarlo.
He was no more than a footnote in their adventure.
Author Tembi Locke wrote and produced the series with her sister Attica Locke (Little Fires Everywhere), who had pitched her book as a movie idea. With the sisters working together, they tried to keep the essence and the heart of the memoir intact.
Amy Wheeler takes time off from law school to pursue her dream of art in Florence. While she studies there, Amy meets Sicilian chef Lino. They fall in love as their paths keep crossing.
While Amy (Zoe Saldano) and Lino (Eugenio Masteandrea) had sizzling chemistry, developing them in the series premiere took too much time. We didn't need to devote half an episode to rich boy Giancarlo.
He was no more than a footnote in their adventure.
- 10/21/2022
- by Laura Nowak
- TVfanatic
When executive producer and Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon was tasked with casting a performer to play Amy Wheeler in “From Scratch,” Netflix’s limited series adaptation of Tembi Locke’s memoir, she looked no further than her dinner table.
Witherspoon was dining across from Zoe Saldaña, who was accompanied by her Italian husband and exchanging bits of dialogue in his native tongue, when she realized the “Avatar” star would be the perfect actor to play Amy.
The show is an epic love story about Amy’s whirlwind romance with a hunky Sicilian chef named Lino (Eugenio Mastrandrea), who she meets while studying abroad in Italy. When Lino is diagnosed with cancer, the couple must reconcile with family and navigate their love in the face of imminent loss.
“I don’t know if there’s a lot of romance in the world right now,” Witherspoon told Variety on Monday at...
Witherspoon was dining across from Zoe Saldaña, who was accompanied by her Italian husband and exchanging bits of dialogue in his native tongue, when she realized the “Avatar” star would be the perfect actor to play Amy.
The show is an epic love story about Amy’s whirlwind romance with a hunky Sicilian chef named Lino (Eugenio Mastrandrea), who she meets while studying abroad in Italy. When Lino is diagnosed with cancer, the couple must reconcile with family and navigate their love in the face of imminent loss.
“I don’t know if there’s a lot of romance in the world right now,” Witherspoon told Variety on Monday at...
- 10/18/2022
- by Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
"From Scratch" is a new 8-episode, limited TV series, directed by Nzingha Stewart and Dennie Gordon, based on the memoir best-seller by Tembi Locke, stars Zoe Saldaña, Eugenio Mastrandrea, Danielle Deadwyler, Keith David, Judith Scott, Kellita Smith, Lucia Sardo, Paride Benassai, Roberta Riganored streams October 21, 2022 on Netflix:
"....'Amy Wheeler' (Saldaña) an American student studying abroad in Italy, meets and falls in love with 'Lino', a Sicilian chef. Their whirlwind romance faces unforeseen challenges, including their different cultural backgrounds.
"But when Lino is suddenly faced with unimaginable health challenges and the couple's future is threatened, the two families come together to create an extended family unlike any they could have imagined, proving that love crosses all borders..."
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"....'Amy Wheeler' (Saldaña) an American student studying abroad in Italy, meets and falls in love with 'Lino', a Sicilian chef. Their whirlwind romance faces unforeseen challenges, including their different cultural backgrounds.
"But when Lino is suddenly faced with unimaginable health challenges and the couple's future is threatened, the two families come together to create an extended family unlike any they could have imagined, proving that love crosses all borders..."
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- 9/16/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Already, at age 15, actress Ariel Gade has managed to make quite a name for herself inside and out of the genre world, and Dread Central had the opportunity to chat briefly with her about her most recent project: Some Guy Who Kills People
Ever since making her debut on television at the young age of 6, Gade has gone on to co-star in films like Envy, Dark Water and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and portrayed youngster Rose Varon in the cult classic ABC TV series "Invasion." In Jack Perez's dark comedy Some Guy Who Kills People she appears as precocious tweener Amy Wheeler, who not only discovers she has a dad (Kevin Corrigan) but also figures out that he very well could be the killer behind a string of grisly murders in their small town.
Written by Ryan A. Levin and produced by John Landis, Some Guy Who Kills People also stars Karen Black,...
Ever since making her debut on television at the young age of 6, Gade has gone on to co-star in films like Envy, Dark Water and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and portrayed youngster Rose Varon in the cult classic ABC TV series "Invasion." In Jack Perez's dark comedy Some Guy Who Kills People she appears as precocious tweener Amy Wheeler, who not only discovers she has a dad (Kevin Corrigan) but also figures out that he very well could be the killer behind a string of grisly murders in their small town.
Written by Ryan A. Levin and produced by John Landis, Some Guy Who Kills People also stars Karen Black,...
- 7/2/2012
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
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