“They had only signed on for a year, not realizing exactly how insane it was going to get with COVID and the pandemic pause in production, as they like to call it at the studio,” Yockey told The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s Top Five podcast.

Joining first-season showrunner Steve Yockey ( Awkward, Supernatural) is Natalie Chaidez ( Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, showrunner of Queen of the South) after the departures of season 1 co-showrunners Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin. Season 2 (which was quickly ordered after the first season finale) departs from the source material, which the first season hewed pretty closely to. Originally conceived as a limited series, the runaway success of the first season - which premiered Thanksgiving weekend 2020 and sustained many of us through the first bleak pandemic winter - led producers to explore a possible second season. Producer Greg Berlanti ( Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, to name a few of his projects) came on board in 2019, along with Susanna Fogel ( The Spy Who Dumped Me, Booksmart), who directed the pilot. “I read one sentence and called my attorney: ‘Have you heard of this book? And, if you have, did Reese Witherspoon get the rights?’” “One night, I was swiping through upcoming books on Amazon and saw The Flight Attendant,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. Who is behind The Flight Attendant season 2?īased on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant was optioned by Cuoco’s own production company, Yes, Norman Productions, in 2017 prior to the book’s publication.

Now, The Flight Attendant is back, and season 2 is pushing Cassie’s story even further. It mirrored her character’s journey, and she knocked it out of the park.

This underestimation perhaps worked in Cuoco’s favor, with few really expecting her move from lowbrow sitcom girl to the heroine of a drama-comedy-thriller series. “If they’re willing to see me like that, I’m just laughing in the corner.” “Was I able to reinvent myself overnight, and they’ve totally forgotten about everything else?” she told Variety. With the role of Cassie, she earned her first Emmy nomination 20 years into her career and reached new heights of creative involvement - she’s involved in all aspects of the show, from optioning to producing to fronting the show in a lead role that allows her to meld her comedic chops with a more dramatic edge.

When The Flight Attendant dropped on HBO Max in 2020, it was Kaley Cuoco’s first major project since The Big Bang Theory went off the air a year prior.

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