Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Star With Cecily Strong in Apple's 'Nanny Squatter' Limited Series
Two Saturday Night Live generations are teaming up: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Cecily Strong will star in an Apple TV+ limited series based on New York Magazine's 'The Nanny Squatter' — the story of a caregiver who refused to leave.
NEW YORK — Julia Louis-Dreyfus has her next series, and it comes with a warning label. Louis-Dreyfus and Cecily Strong have signed on to star in an untitled limited series at Apple TV+ based on New York Magazine's article 'The Nanny Squatter,' GeekTyrant reported Monday via Deadline.
The article, published in October under the tagline 'A couple thought they'd found Mary Poppins. Until she refused to leave,' becomes a series about a couple whose lives are upended after they welcome a seemingly ideal caregiver into their home — boundaries blur, control slips, and the arrangement spirals into a tense, unsettling power struggle, according to the report.
The series comes from Mary Bronstein, the director of 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You,' and Apple Studios. Bronstein will write, direct and serve as showrunner, and will executive-produce alongside Louis-Dreyfus, Strong and Scoop Wasserstein, who oversees scripted development for New York Magazine on behalf of Vox Media Studios.
The casting lands on a busy night for Louis-Dreyfus, who is also Monday's lead interview guest on 'Late Night With Seth Meyers' on NBC, appearing in support of the Broadway revival of 'Other Desert Cities' at the Hudson Theatre — her Broadway debut, in which she plays Polly Wyeth alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Lily Rabe and Joe Keery, in a run scheduled through January 17.
