Joshua Jackson Teases ‘How to Survive Without Me’ — SkimNews
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- How to Survive Without Me starts six months after matriarch Beverly’s death; Jackson said she wrote a book for her five adult children that they can read only together, then reaches beyond the grave to them and her husband to keep the family together.
- Joshua Jackson teased the new HBO Max series at the Airbnb.org Gala in Los Angeles, saying “And then it’s HBO, so it’s sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll,” before joking, “I’m getting too old for this shit.”
- Rita Wilson will play Beverly as a series regular, with Ray Romano as her widower Leo and Kaley Cuoco and Joshua Jackson as their children Kate and Cooper.
- Joshua Jackson said he hopes the show lasts for a couple of years, but the pilot and first couple of episodes have him needing to “stay on top of things.”
- Joshua Jackson said How to Survive Without Me is the first production requiring him to color his hair to look younger, another sign to him that he is getting old.
- Greg Berlanti co-created the series with Robbie Rogers and Bash Doran; Jackson first worked with Berlanti on Dawson’s Creek in 1998, almost 30 years before this project.
Why it matters: For HBO Max, the six-month setup gives the family drama a concrete mechanism—five adult children can read Beverly’s book only together—while Jackson’s first-time hair coloring gives the provocative teaser a personal counterpoint: he is already joking that he is too old for it. The series thus pairs a clear family engine with a distinctly self-aware “sex, drugs” pitch.
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