When it comes to adapting Hulu conversations with friends – Second novel by Sally Rooney, which was successful on television. Normal people – Stars Joe Alvin and Alison Oliver were for comparison. And expectations then Normal people Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones became immediate stars, earning four Emmy nominations, including one for Mescal.
“I think there’s an element of pressure,” Alvin said. the hollywood reporter The first series of life at the FYC event in Los Angeles on Tuesday. “I think it’s cool that the relationship is aesthetically, internally Normal people, But even from the book, it’s its story and its own show. This isn’t a sequel, so that separation is cool, and just looking at it in terms of comparison probably isn’t fair to any of us.”
However, that comparison is understandable given the same creative team behind Rooney’s source material and the show, led by executive producer and director Lenny Abrahamson. Both shows are also followed by young Irish lovers and lovebirds. Although, conversations with friends It follows a more complex story about two college students (played by Oliver and Sasha Lane) and their troubled relationship with a married couple (played by Alvin and Jamie Kirks).
“Of course it shares the tone and the aesthetic, the writer and the team that creates it, but we really approach it as our own work, that’s how we end up,” Oliver said of the two projects differentiating. He was, of course, a “big fan” of Rooney after reading his two books. As for how he sees the connection between the two shows, if Marianne and Connelly continue their relationship a few miles from their character’s history, he joked, “I see them as worlds apart in a sense. I think if they were all together, it would be my brain. [explode].”
Alvin was also a big fan of Rooney’s novels and said he met and exchanged some text messages while filming with Mescal. He plays an actor in the series, and while he said he “hasn’t lost much on his whole meta side”, there was one weird aspect: at the start of the show, Oliver’s character looks at Alvin’s character on Google and splashes red. his. Photos of rugs that are real images of Alvin from the 2019 Oscars of Vanity Fair.
“I saw these pictures and it was really funny. [It] “Took me out of there for a second,” admitted the actor. And while talking about establishing a key relationship on the show, Elvin pointed to several months of pandemic preparation so the actors could get to know each other and build a foundation.
On whether there’s hope for a second season if the show goes on Normal people“I think this is Sally Rooney’s call,” Oliver said, following in the footsteps of one step.
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Source: Hollywood Reporter
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