Anna Kendrick to direct Netflix’s bisexual Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo adaptation

Anna Kendrick has officially been tapped to direct Netflix’s long-awaited adaptation of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s hit romance novel follows Evelyn Hugo, an ageing Hollywood actress, as she recounts her life story and details of her seven very public marriages to a journalist.

Hugo tells of the highs and lows she faced while trying to hide both her Cuban heritage and a sapphic romance with another up-and-coming starlet as she rose to fame during Hollywood’s Golden Age.

The LGBTQ+ novel was first published in 2016, but gained more prominence when BookTok users began recommending it during the pandemic.

Netflix’s film adaptation of the book was first announced way back in 2022 and has since met a couple of roadblocks.

Liz Tigelaar was originally set to produce, with Russian Doll and The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland attached to direct. However, Headland told Variety in 2025 that she “was no longer working on [the] project.”

Now, with Kendrick in the director’s chair, the adaptation is officially back up and running.

According to Deadline, Liza Chasin (The Lost City, Ladies First) is producing the project through 3Dot Productions alongside Brad Mendelsohn for Circle Management + Productions and David Hinojosa.

Taylor Jenkins Reid herself is also set to serve as an executive producer. The author’s other notable novels include Daisy Jones and the Six, which was turned into a hit series for Amazon Prime Video in 2023, Malibu Rising, and lesbian space romance Atmosphere.

Jenkins Reid delighted fans last year when she came out as bisexual ahead of the release of Atmosphere.

Is Taylor Jenkins Reid queer?

In an interview with Time in May 2025, Reid discussed Evelyn Hugo and writing a queer romance, saying writing the book had led to questions over her personal life.

“I am very private,” she said. “So at first, I just sort of let people assume what they were going to assume.” However, she wanted people to know that she identifies as bisexual.

“It has been hard at times to see people dismiss me as a straight woman,” the author continued. “But I also didn’t tell them the whole story.”

Sharing some of her personal experiences, Reid explained that as a teenager, she faced questions like: “Why can’t you dress more like a girl? Why don’t you do your nails? Why do you talk that way? Can’t you be a little bit quieter?”

This led to people telling her “you’re gay”. She then fell in love with a woman in her twenties, but her friends doubted it at the time.

“This was the late 90s, so nobody was talking about bisexuality. And if they were, it was to make fun of people,” she said.

“The messages about bisexuality were you just want attention, or it was a stop on the way to gayville. I found that very painful, because I was being told that I didn’t know myself, but I did.”

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