
So I really felt like she was sort of on this journey with me.” Interestingly enough, I did not realize this, but I began the book at exactly the age that was when she was diagnosed, and I finished it at the age she was when she passed away. “I went in search of her the way I go in search of everything, which is I write about it, and in this piece, at different times I’m certainly the rebellious Marah, but I’m also Kate going going through this and trying to sort of see our life through her eyes.

It comes and goes and comes and goes, and at 40 I just felt this driving need to get to know her again,” Hannah told TheWrap. “I suddenly went through one of those waves where I really missed my mom, which is a classic grieving process for your mother.

“I love that you feel like the juxtaposition of the pain of this funeral, which I love that we didn’t go inside, you stay outside with, and she’s dancing, and you have this beautiful song that meant so much to both of them and to their relationship,” Chalke said.Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke Reunite for ‘Firefly Lane’ Season 2, Part 2 Trailer (Video) Just as Kate wasn’t present in the final funeral scene, Chalke wasn’t on set for the filming of Tully’s moment. So in a way, it felt as final as a death.” We knew it was the last bit of episodes, we knew that we would not be coming back is these characters. There were times we had to stop filming to just pull it together and stop crying. “This was an odd experience for me in that it was almost too on the surface for me. Even the dialogue, even what Kate writes to Tully in that note, it’s straight from the book, and I would just sit in my trailer and reread that part of the book over and over between takes,” Heigl said.


“The best part of the funeral scene to me is that it is exactly as written in the book. Tully can’t go inside for Kate’s funeral, but Kate prepared for that. Even the final moment of the show comes down to the two of them. Heigl and Chalke agreed that the bridal shower tiff needed to happen because there was so much left unsaid, and the conflicting emotions needed to be let out for the fate of the friendship. ‘Firefly Lane’ Showrunner Wanted to ‘Stay True’ to Book’s Ending and ‘Come Full Circle’
