We Were the Lucky Ones author Georgia Hunter details one major change from the book that was necessary for the Hulu adaptation.
During an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Hunter detailed the one big change from the book:
Obviously, we had to make a few cuts here and there. We didn’t have the luxury of telling a 400-page novel word for word, and it was challenging trying to tell some backstory, and portray thoughts and the things that I was able to use prose for. But our writers were so phenomenal, they somehow managed to pull this nine-year history together into eight beautiful episodes.
One change that we made that I love is that in the novel, we open in 1939, just before the war breaks out, and my grandfather is unable to return from France, where he is living, to Poland, where his family is. It’s a story that he told my mom growing up, and his mom wrote him a letter and said, “Hey, it’s getting unsafe here, you shouldn’t come back.” And he was stuck in France. So, instead of beginning there, we decided to begin in 1938 and show that family over Passover which, in the novel, Addy just remembers in his mind what it was like.
I think it was really important to set the stage for audiences to meet this family. It is a true family, a true ensemble of a piece with the five siblings and the parents and a young baby born along the way. So, I loved that opening, and being a part of that shoot was one of my favorite days on set.
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