Laura Linney gushes about returning to Tales Of The City for a Netflix mini-series 18 years after the show 'changed her life'
She's set to reprise her role as Mary Ann Singleton in the influential LGBTQ series Tales Of The City, 18 years after the show last aired.
In a pre-recorded interview that aired on Thursday's edition of This Morning, the actress, 55, gushed that the show 'changed [her] life in many ways.'
The new Netflix miniseries, which is set to be released on Friday, follows Mary Ann as she returns to 28 Barbary Lane to celebrate her former landlady Mrs Madrigal's ninetieth birthday.
Excited: Laura Linney gushed about returning to Tales Of The City after 18 years, and said the show 'changed her life', in a pre-recorded interview that aired on This Morning on Thursday
She gushed: 'I had no idea how much Tales would mean to me, and for me it changed my life in many ways.'
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Talking about her character in the new series, she said Mary Anne will 'meet all the new young people' who have taken up residence in Mrs Madrigal's (Olympia Dukakis) lodging, who the original characters 'can pass the baton to.'
The series will feature an array of new queer characters, including Ellen Page playing Mary Anne's sexually fluid adopted daughter Shawna.
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Delighted: Laura is set to reprise her role as Mary Ann Singleton in the influential LGBTQ series, and she said that '[she] had no idea how much Tales would mean to [her]'
They're back: The Netflix miniseries follows Mary Ann as she returns to 28 Barbary Lane to celebrate her former landlady Mrs Madrigal's ninetieth birthday
Based on the Armistead Maupin novels of the same name, the original mini-series aired on Channel 4 in the UK in September 1993 and on PBS in January 1994, before returning for a sequel in 1998 and a third instalment in 2001.
Laura confessed she was 'stunned' when the show was dropped, and she was 'quite surprised by how negatively the LGBTQ community was seen at the time', but added that 'the world has changed a lot now' so it's great to return to the show.
She explained: 'The world has changed, it’s in a very complicated, confusing perplexing time, and I think many people are afraid and lonely, and fear is very easily manipulated and used.
'So, something like this is hopefully a salve and a joy to watch and be a part of and a celebration of people and our joys and our complexities, and the joy of being alive on the planet.'
Family: The series will feature an array of new queer characters, including Ellen Page playing Mary Anne's sexually fluid adopted daughter Shawna
Last run: Based on the Armistead Maupin novels of the same name, the original mini-series aired in 1993, before returning for a sequel in 1998 and a third instalment in 2001
New blood: Laura said Mary Anne will 'meet all the new young people' who have taken up residence in Mrs Madrigal's lodging, who the original characters 'can pass the baton to.'
The new series has Orange Is The New Black's Lauren Morelli as showrunner, and Laura added that 'all our writers are LGBTQ' so they can 'support' the community.
In the Netflix series, Mary Ann returns to San Francisco, 20 years after leaving to start her career and reunites with her daughter and ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross).
During the pre-recorded interview, Laura revealed she was set to film the third season of Ozark this week and heaped praise on her co-star Jason Bateman who she said does 'a remarkable job' as actor and director.
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is set to air on Netflix on June 7, 2019.
Times have changed: Laura confessed she was 'stunned' when the show was dropped in 2001, but added that 'the world has changed a lot now' so it's great to return to the show
