Julia Roberts is in negotiations to once again headline an Amazon Studios project. The 51-year-old Oscar winner last year featured in Amazon s limited series Homecoming which was very well received by the critics and the audiences. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new series, titled Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win is an adaptation of a novel by the same name from Jo Piazza.
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Christine Pride and Jo Piazza first met when Pride worked as Piazza s editor for her latest novel, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win
. Fast friends, their conversations about race and their own interracial friendship inspired them to write a novel together, We Are Not Like Them
, which will be published by Atria Books in October. Told in alternating voices, the novel follows best friends Jen and Riley, whose lifelong connection is challenged when Jen s police officer husband is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager and Riley, a barrier-breaking news anchor in their hometown of Philadelphia, is assigned to cover the big story. Just like their protagonists, Pride and Piazza s friendship was also tested as they wrote their propulsive, deeply felt tale of race and friendship. Here, they share how their own bond was stretc