Marissa Stapley
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Oct 1, 2026
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Exactly.
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And speaking of chaotic hustles, Apple TV also has Lucky based on Marissa Stapley's novel.
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Anya Taylor-Joy plays a highly skilled con artist on the run from the authorities.
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Sounds so fun.
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And to round out this category of complicated women fighting their circumstances, we have Lucky, premiering July 15th on Apple TV+.
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Based on Marissa Stapley's novel, this one stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the titular character, Lucky.
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Taylor-Joy is perfectly cast here.
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Her breakout role as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit proves she can carry a complex, deeply flawed prodigy-type character who is constantly oscillating between genius and self-destruction.
JamieHOST
Awesome.
JamieHOST
The book I read is called Lucky by Marissa Stapley.
JamieHOST
And it has recently been made into a short series or a movie on Netflix.
JamieHOST
Yes.
JamieHOST
not really a whodunit and yet yes it feels still like a
SarahHOST
mystery like trying to figure it out figure
JamieHOST
it out and that's how i felt like i didn't want to call it a whodunit because it's not i feel like it's the feeling of a whodunit it's definitely the feeling of a whodunit okay so um lucky by marissa stapley i gave it three stars awesome
SarahHOST
Okay, I have begun my spooky story listening.
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And I think 2021, Reese Witherspoon had picked up the book as the first Canadian author to be part of her book club.
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So the book is called Lucky, written by Marissa Stapley.
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This book has now been adapted into a TV series.
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And Marissa came on the show to talk about what that process has been like for her and how exciting it all was.
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That's the wrong answer.
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Anya Taylor-Joy and Annette Bening are breathing life into the pages of Lucky.
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Marissa Stapley wrote the book.
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Reese Witherspoon brought it into her book club.
Laurie PetrouGUEST
You know, everyone's job, everyone who, who, uh, who does it, it's nice to have someone who gets it and you can just be like, "Ugh." So I, I'm very fortunate.
Laurie PetrouGUEST
Marissa Stapley is one of my closest writer friends, and, like, it's nice to have someone that you can just, like, you know, text when you're like, "Ugh." Because every book is your first book, right?
Hannah MacDonaldHOST
Yeah.
Laurie PetrouGUEST
Like, you might get rejections or you might get notes that you find really hard or, you know, every time your book is out on sub you don't know what's gonna happen.
Linwood BarclayGUEST
I think I'll just start writing a sucker.
Richard KrauseHOST
How important is the first line to you? I went to a reading the other night for Marissa Stapley, wrote Lucky, who's now on an Apple TV show, and she said when she got the first line, and I'll paraphrase it, it's something like, Lucky woke up on her first day on the...
Richard KrauseHOST
you know, steps of an orphanage or something like that.
Richard KrauseHOST
And she said, I knew from that point on, I had a story.