You will develop a palate.
You couldn’t scroll through your Instagram feed without encountering a meticulously staged shot of that infamous broken-wine-glass cover.
A palate is a spot on your tongue where you remember.
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Those words, and the story that follows, were quicklyacquired for a television adaptation that much was inevitable.
But for Danler, the wins started early.
As she explains to EW, she realized quicklySweetbitterwas going to be different from the typical debut novel.
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“I thought, that is absolutely impossible!”
she says through laughter.
“And my next thought was, I don’t have to do anything else now.
Which was not true I toured for another year.”
“Young women are really vocal,” she says.
“To have them as a fan base, you really hear from them.
They used the word ‘obsessed’ a lot, and I like that.”
Her team gave her a watch list, and close to 60 pilot scripts to pore over.
I knew if I spent one more minute, I would blink and 10 years would go by.
(And yes, they made sure the keep that bathtub in the living room).
“My priority was that the restaurant look aged, first of all,” she says.
Eating becomes a discipline.
The onscreen version did away with most of the late-night imbibing but leans heavily into the other degustations.
Which means, of course, that the actors did too.
It’s just horrific."
In the wake of miniseries-that-were-never-really-miniseries and the upcoming second season ofBig Little Lieslooms the question of the future ofSweetbitter.
Danler, for her part, is waiting with bated breath.
“But I also did the hard work and carried the bulk of the anxiety already.
I’ve heard all the complaints about the book, I’ve taken all the heat.
I feel like I know a little bit more about how to navigate this part.”
You will never simply eat food again.
