The streamer announced last year that Aniston is attached to star as a fictionalized version of the 33-year-old iCarly alum\u2019s controlling mother Debra, who died from cancer in 2013.<\/p>\n
McCurdy\u2019s 2022 memoir, which is based on her one-woman show of the same name, sold out at many major retailers\u00a0within 24 hours of its release and charts her career as a child actress as well as her strained relationship with her mother.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe book was a massive hit, and AppleTV is ready to spend tens of millions of dollars to make the miniseries adaptation hit even bigger,\u201d the\u00a0source says, adding that McCurdy hand-picked the Emmy Award-winning A-lister<\/a> to play her late mom.<\/p>\n According to the source, Aniston is hoping to squeeze in the project \u201cbefore she makes the next season of The Morning Show,\u201d the well-received Apple TV newsroom drama in which she costars with Reese Witherspoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, the source points out, \u201cthat\u2019s easier said than done because of [the show\u2019s] giant cast and their crazy schedules, including Reese Witherspoon who is getting pulled in a million directions constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n Instagram\/Jim Curtis<\/p>\n Regardless of the timing, Aniston seems to be at ease these days ever since going public with her new boyfriend<\/a>, Jim Curtis, in November.<\/p>\n The source reveals \u201cshe is obsessed with this man\u201d and is feeling optimistic with the hypnotherapist \u201cby her side.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFor the first time in her life, Jen isn\u2019t being driven by fear,\u201d the source adds. \u201cShe\u2019s being driven by true love.\u201d<\/p>\n This story Jennifer Aniston Is Ready For Her \u2018Biggest Transformation Yet\u2019 in Upcoming TV Show (Exclusive)<\/a> first appeared on Star<\/a>. Add Star as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston has a big year ahead. The Friends alum, 56, will star in and executive produce the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[5896,236,190801,88,190800,3660,10574],"class_list":{"0":"post-394049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-controlling-mother","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-jennette-mccurdy","13":"tag-jennifer-aniston","14":"tag-reese-witherspoon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9c99e38d32bd8cbbbdb01c3085a5c341.jpeg\"\/)
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