Normal People Image: Twitter/BBC Normal People Image: Twitter/BBC IT’S DIFFICULT TO remember an Irish-made TV show that has arrived with as much hype and anticipation as Normal People.
The result is a 12-part series that is out tomorrow in full on the BBC iPlayer and starts broadcasting in both the UK and Ireland this week. “I think there was a moment through the process where we suddenly went, ‘Oh, gosh, this really is a very big book’, but we started before it even came out,” executive producer Emma Norton explains over Zoom.
Abrahamson directs half the episodes in the series and the other half are directed by English director Hettie Macdonald.“It was a very powerful thing for us to be able to say back to Sally. To say to her, if we get the rights to this book, we’re gonna make it as a TV show. There’s no ifs or buts about it, we’re doing it.”
I think sometimes we get a bit obsessed by RTÉ’s lack of ability to do things, and we don’t really see that changing that quickly into the future. I think they could be an awful lot more clever about how they interact with drama, I think they could do a lot more clever about how they develop stuff, but they have limited resources, is the truth. Kildare actor Paul Mescal plays the lead male character in the series.
Connell’s mother is a cleaner who cleans Marianne’s house and the awkward situation provides the setting for the early stages of their relationship. Lenny has a very special sort of way of telling a character’s perspective. When you watch Room where he manages to adapt a story which is all from the little boy’s head into a kind of visual form where we really access the boy’s mind. I think he’s just got an amazing way of filmmaking that he lets you into a part of a person that you don’t usually see. So I really found his filmmaking fascinating and really helpful.
“A huge part of Marianne and Connell’s relationship is how they connect sexually and they have a really intense sexual connection right from the beginning,” Norton says.
It's very good. 2 episodes in.
I've followed tv and movie PR hypes for years. Picard hyping lasted an entire year culminating in a damp squib. I assume the PR folks for 'Normal People' are ready with the 'did they or didn't they' teasers to keep the series in the public eye.
What’s the different between sex and “Irish sex”? 🤷🏼♀️
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