One evening in 2014, Sharon Horgan met Sarah Jessica Parker for dinner. “One of the biggest pleasures is when women contact me about the character Sharon in Catastrophe,” Horgan says, “thanking me for putting her on television. The great thing about writing with Sharon was that she was allowed to be all those things. Photograph: Pal Hansen for the Observer“I was fascinated by the idea of divorce,” Horgan says. And there’s rarely one real baddie, right?”Before she started writing, Horgan sat down with a friend who’d been divorced and asked her what happened.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2016 06:05 UTC