Emilia Jones leads Netflix drama about Yale IVF patients
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Emilia Jones has been cast as the lead in Netflix’s limited-series adaptation of “The Retrievals”, adding a named star to the project announced in May. The drama will depict IVF patients who unite to pursue Yale University after undergoing egg-retrieval procedures without anaesthesia, allegedly because a clinic nurse had stolen fentanyl.
Jones will play Gabby Clemente, a New Haven bartender and student teacher whose traumatic procedure leads her to identify other patients and spearhead legal action. Molly Smith Metzler will write, executive produce and serve as showrunner; Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap is among the producers, while Lila Neugebauer will direct the pilot.
- Emilia Jones will lead Netflix’s “The Retrievals”.
- The drama adapts a podcast about Yale IVF patients.
- Jones plays a patient who leads legal action.
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IVF is a medical process that can help people have a baby by collecting eggs, fertilising them in a laboratory and placing an embryo into the womb. Egg retrieval is the procedure used to collect the eggs and is normally carried out with pain relief or sedation.
The story is based on reported events involving patients at a fertility clinic linked to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Some patients said they underwent egg retrievals without the expected anaesthetic after fentanyl intended for the clinic was allegedly stolen by a nurse.
Patients later connected with one another and brought legal claims, raising questions about patient safety, pain management and accountability at healthcare institutions. “The Retrievals” is a drama adaptation of those events, rather than a documentary.
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Originally published by Variety as “Emilia Jones to Star in Netflix Series Adaptation of ‘The Retrievals’ Podcast”.