Julia May Jonas’ novel, Vladimir, is coming to the screen.
In a Dec. 24 interview with Bustle, Bad Sisters creator and star Sharon Horgan revealed that she has plans to adapt the 2022 novel. Horgan, 54, spoke with the outlet as part of the “One Nightstand” series, which invites celebrity readers and writers to discuss their favorite books and creative processes.
Vladimir follows a college professor becomes obsessed with a new faculty member on campus after her husband is caught up in a sexual misconduct controversy.
When the creator was first sent the book, she didn’t think she’d have time to work on an adaptation, Hogan shared.
“I was making Bad Sisters and had no headspace whatsoever, and Julia hadn’t written a screenplay before … And I was like, ‘No, no, no, I just don’t have time,'” she said. But after she read the first chapter, Hogan “just made time.”
The Irish actress said she would be open to “a little cameo” in the series too, though she enjoys “making things that I’m not in and casting people.”
Horgan also shared three other books she’s enjoyed receently, including Jennette McCurdy’s memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died.
“I was a fan [of McCurdy] because my girls were obsessed with iCarly,” Horgan said. “It’s tricky with child actors and Nickelodeon things because it’s a very different way of performing — it’s very performative performing — [but] she was the opposite. She was just so dry and so naturally funny, just had this great timing and could be a clown.”
Hogan also admired McCurdy’s honesty in the memoir.
“When I spoke to her about it I was just thanking her because she exposed so much of herself,” Horgan added. “It felt so helpful to hear a public figure be that honest and that committed to telling her story and not worrying about her public image.”
Horgan also loved Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom, which recounts the author’s work in psychotherapy, as well as Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises — a book Horgan once tried to bring to the big screen.
“Myself and Jonathan Glatzer got the rights to adapt it and shopped it all over the place, but we couldn’t sell it,” Horgan said, adding, “I love the Paris setting, I love Pamplona, I love the bull fighting. And I hate and love all the toxic masculinity.”
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Horgan also noted that she’s trying to read more, to set a better example for her daughters.
“I don’t want my daughters to always see me reading on a laptop or off a phone, which is how I read scripts usually,” she said. “So I just made a real concerted effort to make reading more of a thing, like always having books in the house and recommending stuff to them.”
Hogan previously opened up to PEOPLE about her writing process for Bad Sisters, the Apple TV+ series about five Dublin sisters trying to cover up the murder of one of their abusive husbands. Horgan said that she was a “magpie for people’s stories” while developing the script, though she’s now cautious about using people’s real experiences as inspiration.
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“I think initially, when I started out, I was so excited by the fact that I was getting to do this thing and getting to tell these stories, but I also had this other part of me that was like, ‘Well, what if I run out of ideas? We’re still doing this thing now, how do I keep the train on the tracks?’” she said. “And so I was just a bit more hungry for stories than I am now.”
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