THE SHOW
HIRED TO WRITE THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, JOSH FRIEDMAN NEVER REALISED HOW MUCH OF HIMSELF HE'D POUR INTO IT
Lena Headey as Sarah Connor;
JUST FIVE DAYS after Josh Friedman sold his pitch to write The Sarah Connor Chronicles, life happened. Suddenly, he didn’t feel like writing it at all. “I was 36, and I got diagnosed with kidney cancer,” he recalls. In recovery, meeting a therapist who specialised in cancer patients, the TV work now felt insignificant. “I was like, ‘I don’t know that I can go and write this scary robot show. After going through what I’ve just gone through, I don’t know if it’s what I can do right now in my life.’” His therapist told him that he should at least try. After all, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.