‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Star DeWanda Wise Joins Shailene Woodley in Showtime’s ‘Three Women’

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She’s Gotta Have It alumna DeWanda Wise is set as a lead opposite Shailene Woodley in Three Women, a Showtime hourlong series based on the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo, who is adapting her book. Principal photography is set to begin in the fall.

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Shailene Woodley is taking on a new role!

Showtime has picked up a series adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s book “Three Women,” with “Big Little Lies” alum Shailene Woodley attached to star.The project is described as an “intimate, haunting portrayal of American female desire” centered on three women “on a crash course to radically overturn their lives.”Lina, a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Shailene Woodley, star of “Big Little Lies,” The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and “The Spectacular Now,” has joined Showtime’s upcoming hourlong series “Three Women” as a lead.