Jen Beagin was a waitress at 47. Now, her book 'Big Swiss' is being adapted by Jodie Comer for HBO. She spoke with Emily Gould for this edition of the 'Making It' newsletter
, was published in 2019. February 7 brings readers her most exciting book yet: the idiosyncratic love story. Jodie Comer is adapting the book into a TV series for HBO that she’ll star in as the titular character, after winning a 14-way bidding war for film rights.
You can do a lot of character development very quickly if you include therapy transcripts in your novel, it turns out. Big Swiss is an indelible character; she’s beautiful yet deliberately unappealing, cold, blunt, and addicted to condiments. She is a gynecologist who has survived a horrific assault, yet has nothing but contempt for what she calls “the trauma people.” What brings her to Om’s office, though, is that she has never in her 28 years experienced an orgasm.
Watching Greta and Big Swiss navigate each other’s minds and bodies is one of the novel’s great pleasures. Beagin’s sex scenes are like no one else’s. In bed with Big Swiss, Greta thinks about how “anything and everything seemed possible. She could pilot a helicopter if she wanted, or act in a play. She could make soap, sweaters, sausage. Maybe dance?” But Greta’s subterfuge must come out eventually, and the book’s climactic scenes are, as you’d expect, wrenching and hilarious.
Beagin hadn’t even begun to process her loss when her luck changed dramatically, again. “My dad hadn’t yet been cremated, and then my agent in Hollywood calls and says, ‘Your manuscript got leaked and it’s circulating like crazy.’” A number of big-name actresses saw themselves in the meaty roles of either Greta or Big Swiss: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Elisabeth Moss, Laura Dern, and Olivia Colman. Beagin was delighted when Comer nabbed the rights and brought HBO onboard.
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