'Mia, she had such a fraught relationship with her mother-she never felt truly seen. 'It’s a very complicated thing, because there is a maternal element there,' Boone told Oprah Mag (opens in new tab) of the relationship. In the scene, Boone's Mia is pregnant-with Pauline's child, which she is carrying as a surrogate for Pauline and her husband.
The actresses involved are clearly crazy hot, but the set-up added a layer of drama that took the can't-not-watch factor to the next level.
Hulu's adaptation of Celeste Ng's novel Little Fires Everywhere had plenty of sexiness, but fans were particularly floored by a scene between Tiffany Boone (playing a younger version of Kerry Washington's character, Mia) and Anika Noni Rose (playing Pauline Hawthorne, a professor who becomes Mia's mentor).
