12 Times Actors’ Real Parents Played Their Onscreen Parents (But It’s Not Super Well-Known)

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Laura told the LA Times, “It was a dream to finally get to work together. We’ve thought about it for a while. The gift of being a producer is you can be involved early in decisions, in the process of developing the characters, and what part to play. Abe [Sylvia, the series creator] had this brilliant idea of this other character, Linda, that had not been in the book, to really speak to a lot of the themes that I wanted to talk about. We thought, maybe there’s background that involves the family. That’s when Jayme Lemons, my producing partner, was like, ‘Family? Is it a dad?’ Because they all knew how we’d always longed for this.”