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Tembi and Attica Locke talk about encountering the spirit of her late husband Saro Gullo on the set of From Scratch through signs, coincidences and synchronicities.
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Locke and her husband, Rosario "Saro" Gullo, a Sicilian chef, lived and worked in Los Angeles, California. He died in 2012 from cancer. [2] She married her partner Robert in 2020 whom she met in 2016. [3]
YearTitleRoleNotes2020, 2021, 2023Elise TorresRecurring cast (season 1), guest (1 ...2019Vanessa DaleRecurring cast2018Dr. Helen SaundersEpisode: “Flesh & Blood”2017–18Leigha WintersEpisodes: “Mountebank” & ...- Tembi Met Saro While Studying Abroad in Italy in College
- Tembi and Attica Say They're Different from Their 'From Scratch' Characters
- The Characters' Names Are Changed, But Have A Message
- Saro Was Diagnosed with A Rare Form of Cancer
- Tembi and Saro Adopted Their Daughter Zoela
- Tembi Said Sicily Was A Healing Place For Her: 'Love Lasts'
While writing the memoir, Tembi said that revisiting the early stages of her relationship with Saro was one of her favorite parts of the process. The same went for creating the TV show, though Tembi said she chose not to actually watch Amy and Lino fall in love in Italy for a specific reason. "I didn't watch the visuals because I want to maintain a...
Speaking to TODAY, Attica Locke said she doesn't have much in common with her TV equivalent, Zora, played by Danielle Deadwyler. For one, she's the younger sister in real life. "I very much feel like a little sister. But people frequently think that I'm the older one," Attica said. In the show, the siblings' order was switched for plot purposes. Th...
Tembi explained that the writers changed the characters' names to give "psychic distance" between the real figures and their fictional portrayals. "I needed the space to allow the character to grow, to bend and to fictionalize things," Tembi said. However, the characters' names pay homage to the real people, especially in Amy's case. Amy's full nam...
Much of the series deals with Amy and Lino as they adjust to his cancer diagnosis. Indeed, Saro was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, a rare form of cancer that starts in the soft muscle tissue, in 2002. Tembi cared for Saro for the next 10 years.
The couple adopted their daughter, Zoela, in the years Saro had cancer. In the show, Amy and Lino's adopted daughter's name is Idalia. “Zoela came to us during that time,” Tembi told TODAYof her adopted daughter in 2019. “And I think one of the things that I learned is life is still happening all around us and for us, we’d always wanted to be paren...
The final episode, which takes place after Lino died, is set in Sicily, where Amy travels with Idalia to bury Lino. In the memoir, Tembi tracks three summers spent in Sicily after Saro’s death (incluidng one summer with her whole entire family, like in the show). Tembi said that Sicily was an essential part of her healing journey, offering her hope...
- Elena Nicolaou
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Apr 16, 2024 · They married in 1995, but seven years later, Saro was diagnosed with cancer. This led to a decade-long battle with the illness. He died in 2012, and in 2019 Tembi wrote her memoir as a way to keep her late husband’s memory—and their story—alive. But even after all of this, her tale is far from over.
Nov 17, 2022 · When Houston native Tembi Locke bumped into Saro on a street in Florence, Italy, it was love at first sight. In that moment, she couldn’t have known that man would become her life — and that she’d...
- Michael Hagerty
May 22, 2024 · Tembi Locke, the author behind the book "From Scratch" which was adapted into a Netflix series, revealed the first symptom that later led to her husband's cancer diagnosis on the May 22 episode...
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‘From Scratch’ is based on a true story and inspired by Tembi Locke’s memoir. She and sister Attica Locke explain how they brought the book to life.