The Last Thing He Told Me author gushes over…
The first factor Laura Dave felt was fortunate.
The author couldn’t have been more thrilled to have Rita Wilson be part of Jennifer Garner on Season 2 of the hit Apple TV+ collection “The Last Thing He Told Me.”
“I do have to do a shout out to Rita Wilson,” Dave, 48, who wrote the novel that was tailored into the show, gushed solely to The Post. “‘Sleepless in Seattle’ is my comfort movie. It’s my favorite. And the fact that she’s out there playing a character that I created, I cannot. I feel so grateful.”
Author Laura Dave and husband Josh Singer discuss to The Post’s Alexandra Bellusci about Season 2 of “The Last Thing He Told Me.” New York Post
The show follows Hannah (Garner, 53) who “must forge a relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter, Bailey (Angourie Rice), to find the truth behind why her husband has mysteriously disappeared,” per the synopsis.
Season 2 picks up after a time soar, when Owen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) show ups after 5 years on the run.
Hannah and Bailey now discover “themselves in a race to figure out how to reunite their family before the past catches up to them,” per the official logline.
Jennifer Garner and Rita Wilson in “The Last Thing He Told Me” Season 2. Apple TV
And followers have the thriller’s lead to thank for bringing Wilson, 69, aboard as Hannah’s mom, Carol.
“Jen actually was the one who suggested casting Rita,” the chief producer, and Dave’s husband, Josh Singer, expressed, including it was an thought that everybody took to “very quickly.”
“Rita is fantastic,” he continued. “In an episode that is really all about past trauma and forgiveness, Rita and Jen and Angourie really works some things out about mothers and daughters which I felt was really great and we couldn’t have done without Rita.”
Jennifer Garner as Hannah in the Apple TV+ show. Apple TV
Judy Greer in a shot from “The Last Thing He Told Me.” Apple TV
Singer, 54, famous that Carol “was a character that I always wanted to revisit after last season.”
Judy Greer also joined the second season, which made it a mini “13 Going on 30” reunion.
Garner and Greer, 50, famously starred in the enduring 2004 rom-com together.
Judy Greer, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Garner, Angourie Rice and Rita Wilson attend an event for season two of “The Last Thing He Told Me” on Feb. 12, 2026. REUTERS
The Season 2 Tastemaker Event Of Apple TV’s “The Last Thing He Told Me.” Apple TV via Getty Images
“I would say we were very fortunate this year to have some really outstanding people join us. There’s Judy, there’s Luke Kirby, and then Rita Wilson,” Singer told The Post.
“It amazing,” Dave chimed in. “They’re actually amazing together, on and off screen. Jen really thinks of Angourie like a daughter [as well]. On and off screen they love each other the way a mother and daughter do. And it’s incredibly sweet.”
For Garner, enjoying Hannah has been a position of a lifetime.
Jennifer Garner and Laura Dave on Jan fifteenth, 2026. Matt Petit/JanuaryImages/Shutterstock
Earlier this month, the “Elektra” star revealed that the character “shaped” her.
“She’s strengthened me. She has given me purpose,” she said at a ebook signing.
Which is every author’s dream to hear.
“In a series of pinch me moments since this journey has begun, getting to watch her be Hannah Hall is top of the list,” Dave mirrored to The Post. “Because she has this idea that we often talked about in terms of Hannah being the grown up in the room and the responsibility of that, and she is the grown up in every room she enters and just brings that energy, brings that heroism. And so, the idea that this character has been so important to her is makes me really, really honored and happy.”
Judy Greer in a scene from the thriller. Apple TV
Jennifer Garner in a shot from season 2 of “The Last Thing He Told Me.” Apple TV
Season 2 comes on the heels of Dave’s sequel novel “The First Time I Saw Him,” which was launched in January. It’s loosely based on the ebook, main Dave to “definitely” really feel “an added layer of pressure this time.”
“The reception we received to the first season and before all that, to the first book, I was just so overwhelmingly grateful for it that I wanted to write the next chapter in a way that viewers would feel really excited. That my readers would feel like, ‘Oh my God, this is exactly where I was hoping Hannah would go.’ So [I was relieved] when the first reviews started coming in from readers.”
Season 2 of “The Last Thing He Told Me” is presently streaming on Apple TV+.
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