He’s not guilty.’ I had no idea if she believed that or not. “I saw an interview back then with Linda Lay, the wife of Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, in which she said, ‘My husband’s done nothing wrong.

“I was consumed with the Enron trial, the hubris behind the people that allowed that to happen,” Dave said. She was inspired by the Enron scandal, which was an energy company that collapsed in the early 2000s because the leadership used off-the-books accounting practices to hide their mountain of debt. As Dave explained to Variety in 2021, the idea first came to her in 2003, but she only started writing in 2012.

It’s based on The Last Thing He Told Me book by Laura Dave, who is adapting her story alongside her husband, Spotlight and The Post writer Josh Singer. And as the FBI agents arrest Owen’s boss and show up at their own home, Hannah and Bailey also have to reckon with the fact that maybe they didn’t know who Owen really was at all. Together, they must learn to get along and figure out why Owen suddenly went missing. But then Owen mysteriously disappears, leaving Hannah a note that just reads, “Protect her.” Hannah knows the letter refers to her standoffish 16-year-old stepdaughter, Bailey (Angourie Rice). The story follows Hannah Hall (played by Jennifer Garner), a wood sculptor from New York who moves to the Bay Area after she gets married to Owen Michaels (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). After Little Fires Everywhere and Truth Be Told, Reese Witherspoon’s production company tackles another thriller with The Last Thing He Told Me. Spoilers ahead for The Last Thing He Told Me book.

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