As well as the return of Abrahamson (who shares directing duties with Leanne Welham this time), writer Alice Birch, who co-scripted Normal People alongside Rooney herself, also worked on the script for this series. There is some continuity from the previous production, though. ![]() I was taken with the book and loved the idea of doing it as a TV series, and through doing the work on Normal People, it made us realise the best way to do Conversations With Friends was also through a TV series.” “Element Pictures had optioned Conversations With Friends before Sally Rooney published Normal People and were developing it as a feature film. As director and executive producer Lenny Abrahamson explains, it was in development for a screen adaptation early on. In fact, the book came out before Normal People – it was Rooney’s debut. The first look at the limited series shows the full cast, including a glimpse at the chemistry between the two romantic leads, Nick and Frances (seen above).Conversations with lens… Director Lenny Abrahamson, who also made Normal People and the Oscar-winning Room, on the set of Conversations With Friends. Hulu shared its first set of images from Conversations with Friends, teasing what's to come in the highly anticipated television adaption. Producer and screenwriter Birch, who wrote almost all the Normal People episodes, is writing here, too, along with Mark O’Halloran ( Rialto), Meadhbh McHugh ( Asking for It), and Susan Soon He Stanton ( Succession). And Joe Alwyn ( The Favourite, Mary Queen of Scots) will play Nick.Ībrahamson (the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind 2015's Room) will direct with Leanne Welham ( Pili, His Dark Materials). Sasha Lane ( American Honey, The Miseducation of Cameron Post) will play Bobbi. Newcomer Alison Oliver, an alumna of Lir Academy (where Normal People's Paul Mescal also went) has been cast to play Frances. ![]() If the Conversations with Friends series reaches Normal People levels of popularity, no doubt its leads will be propelled into stardom like Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones were. ![]() Rooney's 2017 novel follows two Dublin-based college students, Frances (the narrator) and her ex-girlfriend-turned-best friend, Bobbi, as they become romantically intertwined with an older, sophisticated married couple in their 30s.Ĭlockwise from top left: Jemima Kirke, Joe Alwyn, Alison Oliver, and Sasha Lane. Much like Normal People, Conversations with Friends is all about the complicated nature of modern relationships-their messiness, their ambiguity, and the many forms of love and dependency. "Sally Rooney perfectly and beautifully captures the complicated dynamics of relationships in her stories," Hulu's vice president of content, Beatrice Springborn, said in a statement, per Entertainment Weekly, adding that the platform is "honored" to bring another one of Rooney's works to life, especially after the "overwhelmingly positive response" to Normal People. With Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Alice Birch taking the lead, and BBC Three coproducing, the stars are aligned for another streaming sensation. ![]() After striking gold with Normal People, Hulu is collaborating with the show's creative team again to adapt Sally Rooney's 2017 debut novel, Conversations with Friends, into a 12-episode limited series.
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