Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends Lands in Spring

1 Watch the "Conversations With Friends" Full Trailer

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2 What Is Conversations With Friends About?

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Conversations With Friends centres around a 21-year-old college student, Frances. An aspiring writer, Frances works at a literary agency by day and performs spoken-word poetry in Dublin with her best friend and ex-girlfriend Bobbi by night. It's here that the pair is noticed by photographer Melissa, and the next minute, Frances is drawn into her world and meets her husband, Nick.

What starts as innocent flirtation gives way to a strange relationship that causes fractures in her relationships: with Nick, with her father, and finally with Bobbi.

The book has been described as "a new kind of adultery novel", so we can only assume the series will be just as hot and heavy as Normal People. We only hope they hire the same intimacy coordinator, Ita O'Brien, who was behind the raw, believable sex scenes in between Marianne and Connell.

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3 Sally Rooney: Is She Involved in the Hulu's Adaptation of "Conversations With Friends"?

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Sally Rooney is an executive producer on the Hulu series alongside Ed Guiney, Emma Norton, Andrew Lowe, Tommy Bulfin, and Lenny Abrahamson. For "Normal People," Rooney penned the first six episodes before handing over the reins to the creative team. This time, Alice Birch, who also worked on "Normal People," is on board as a writer alongside Mark O'Halloran, Meadhbh McHugh, and Susan Soon He Stanton.

The show's star, Alison Oliver, tells POPSUGAR about Rooney's involvement. "We didn't get to meet in person, but we had a Zoom and chatted about everything about the book and the character and about ourselves. . . . That was really wonderful to get to do. She was so generous with her information about it and the characters and all of that."

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4 "Conversations With Friends" Cast

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Newcomer Alison Oliver stars as Frances. "Loki" and "American Honey" star Sasha Lane plays Frances's ex-girlfriend and best friend, Bobbi. "Girls" actress Jemima Kirke plays Melissa, and Joe Alwyn plays Nick.

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5 Who Is Behind the Scenes on the BBC's Adaptation of Conversations With Friends?

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In great news for anyone who was as obsessed with the Normal People series as we were in 2020, Conversations With Friends is being created by the very same team.

Specifically, Alice Birch — who penned multiple episodes of Normal People and was a story editor on Succession — is returning for round two. And of course Rooney herself will be returning as writer and one of the executive producers for the series, along with a host of EPs from Element Pictures and the BBC.

Director and executive producer Lenny Abrahamson is also returning, and by the sounds of it, he's just as excited to dive back into Rooney's world as we are. "I love Conversations With Friends, its depth, humour, and freshness, and it's an honour to be involved in bringing it to the screen," he said. "Making Normal People has been a singular pleasure, and I'm excited to be working with the same brilliant team again on Conversations With Friends."

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6 Who Is Behind the Scenes of "Conversations With Friends"?

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In great news for anyone who was as obsessed with the "Normal People" series as we were in 2020, "Conversations With Friends" is being created by the very same team.

Specifically, Alice Birch — who penned multiple episodes of "Normal People" and has been a story editor on "Succession" — is returning for round two. And of course, Rooney herself will be returning as one of the executive producers for the series, along with a host of EPs from Element Pictures and the BBC.

Director and executive producer Lenny Abrahamson is also returning, and by the sounds of it, he's just as excited to dive back into Rooney's world as we are. "I love 'Conversations With Friends,' its depth, humour, and freshness, and it's an honour to be involved in bringing it to the screen," he said. "Making 'Normal People' has been a singular pleasure, and I'm excited to be working with the same brilliant team again on 'Conversations With Friends.'"

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7 "Conversations With Friends" Release Date

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The series is scheduled to premiere on May 15, 2022 on BBC Three/BBC One in the United Kingdom. Hulu will be releasing all 12 episodes at once.

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