The first Conversations With Friends trailer is here and it looks so good
Ever since the very exciting news that Sally Rooney's first book, Conversations With Friends, was getting the Normal People treatment and being adapted for TV, we've been counting down the days. Here's everything we know about the new show so far, from release date to trailer and more.
Do we have a Conversations With Friends trailer?
The first look trailer was released on 8 February 2022, and shows the cast in character. We see some major sexual tension between Nick (played by Joe Alwyn) and Frances (Alison Oliver), as the couples' lives begin to intertwine. Ooh it looks so good.
When was Conversations With Friends confirmed?
The cast have been busy filming in Dublin, Belfast and other international locations with the same team behind Normal People for months now, and co-producer Ed Guiney was the first to reveal the series was in the works last May 2021 (whilst also seemingly confirming that there are no immediate plans to revisit Normal People, sob).
"We've turned our attentions – we're adapting Conversations with Friends as a television series. It's the same basic team," Guiney said. "Lenny's [Abrahamson] going to direct it and is across it as an EP. And Alice Birch and all of us at Element Pictures. So, in a way, that's what we'll be turning our attention to next. But maybe down the line we'll come back to Connell and Marianne."
Speaking about the new adaptation, he continued: "I love Conversations with Friends, its depth, humour and freshness, and it’s an honour to be involved in bringing it to the screen."
Do we have any teasers for Conversations with Friends?
Yes! Finally the first look images have been shared (via Vogue) and we already very much want to be a part of the complex friendship group that CWF follows (and borrow a few of their outfits):
Previously, Joe Alwyn, who's playing Nick, shared a behind-the-scenes glimpse of life on set in October 2021. He simply wrote "🎥 cwf 🎞" along with a series of photos from set.
Jemima Kirke, who plays Melissa, also shared some photos from shooting (or are they just partying?) in Belfast. She wrote, "Bye bye Belfast. You are unapologetic and resilient. Bold belly laughs through brutally grey days. 📸 ."
Who's going to star in Conversations with Friends?
With Normal People setting the bench mark, the cast always needed to be an impressive one - and you won't be disappointed. Newcomer Alison Oliver will play Frances, while American Honey star Sasha Lane will star as Bobbi. Meanwhile, Joe Alwyn has been cast as Nick and Sex Education and Girls star Jemima Kirke will play Melissa.
What's Conversations with Friends about?
The 2017 novel, which also explores themes of love and complex partnerships, follows 21-year-old college student Frances as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to face up to her own vulnerabilities for the first time. The official synopsis reads:
Frances (Alison Oliver) is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi (Sasha Lane), her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa (Jemima Kirke) spots their potential.
Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil - and Nick (Joe Alwyn), a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect...
When is Conversations with Friends going to air?
Conversations with Friends is slated to air this May 2022 on BBC Three and Hulu.
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