Kate Winslet to Star in HBO Adaptation of Trust by Hernan Diaz
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Kate Winslet is returning to HBO. Winslet, who won an Emmy for her role as police officer Mare Sheehan in the network's Mare of Easttown, is set to star in and produce an adaptation of Trust by Hernan Diaz. The show is currently in development, and Winslet will executive produce alongside author Diaz. Here's everything we know so far about the show.
It's based on the bestselling novel by Hernan Diaz.
Trust, one of T&C's must-read books of spring 2022, is the story of a Wall Street tycoon in the 1920s told in four layered narratives. The first: Benjamin, a Wall Street tycoon, and Helen, the daughter of eccentric aristocrats, are at the top of the social scene in 1920s New York City. But how did they come by their vast fortune? That's the question at the center of a 1937 novel, Bonds, that all of the elite of New York has read, based on the tale of financier Andrew Bevel.
But the story doesn't end there. There's three other sections: in one, Bevel, displeased with his fictional portrayal in Bonds, decides to write his own memoir, and hires a ghostwriter, Ida. In another, we read Ida's memoir, and in the last, a diary by Mildred Bevel, Andrew's wife. The four narratives compete for the truth within Trust—and it's a magnificently constructed literary puzzle about power and American wealth.
Diaz wanted to understand the history of money in America.
"Even if money plays such an important part in the American imagination, I was surprised to see so few novels dealing directly with it," Diaz told Veranda about his novel. "There are many novels centered on class, of course—consider our rich tradition of novels of manners. But I wanted to explore how that privilege came to be and what sort of narratives it relied on to perpetuate itself. As soon as I started looking into this, it became clear that women had been completely omitted from these mythical accounts of wealth. It was by focusing on these silenced women that the project really took shape."
The TV show will focus more on Ida's story.
The plot summary released makes it seem like Ida—the writer who ghostwrites Andrew's memoir—will be the central character in the show.
Per Deadline, "The book is about a wealthy financier who is dissatisfied by a novel based on his life and his wife’s portrayal, so he asks a secretary to ghostwrite his memoir and set the record straight. The secretary, however, grows uncomfortably aware that he is rewriting history—and his wife’s place in it. Told in four different voices and genres, Trust is a narrative puzzle that subverts the notion of truth and who gets to define it."
We'll update this as soon as we learn more.
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