‘Three Women’ First Look: Shailene Woodley Interviews Betty Gilpin and DeWanda Wise About Their Sex Lives

Shailene Woodley is setting out to capture the power of women.

The “Big Little Lies” alum returns to novel-adaptation ensemble TV with “Three Women,” based on Lisa Taddeo’s bestselling book of the same name. Woodley plays Gia, a writer who is grieving the death of her family and sets out to interview three “ordinary” women to tell her their stories of love, life, and loss.

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Those trio of women include Betty Gilpin, who plays a stuffy housewife who begins an affair, DeWanda Wise as a woman in an open marriage that quickly becomes a quadruple (one more than a thruple), and Gabrielle Creevy who stars as a student that gets entangled with her married English teacher.

The synopsis reads: Three women are on a crash course to radically overturn their lives. Lina (Gilpin), 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. Sloane (Wise), a glamorous entrepreneur in the Northeast, has a committed open marriage with Richard (Blair Underwood), until two sexy new strangers threaten their aspirational love story. Maggie (Creevy), a student in North Dakota, weathers an intense storm after accusing her married English teacher of an inappropriate relationship. When writer Gia (Woodley) persuades each of them to tell her their stories, they change the course of her life forever.

Jason Ralph and John Patrick Amedori also star.

“Three Women” the series is created by Taddeo, who executive producers alongside Emmy Rossum and Kathy Ciric. “The Loudest Voice” and “House of Cards” alum Laura Eason is the series showrunner. Louise Friedberg (“Y: The Last Man,” “Borgen”) directed the first two episodes.

The series was originally set at Showtime, which planned for a 2022 release. However, after Showtime merged with Paramount+, the completed, unaired series was scrapped. Showtime also canceled two other series, “Let the Right One In” and “American Gigolo.”

So Starz acquired “Three Women.” The series was also shopped to HBO and Amazon.

“Three Women” premieres September 13 on Starz. The series will debut at midnight on the Starz app and at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on cable. Check out the first-look images below.

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