Filming has commenced on the highly anticipated TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's literary phenomenon Normal People.
Adapted by Sally Rooney alongside writers Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe, Normal People is a 12-part drama for BBC Three in partnership with Hulu.
It will star Daisy Edgar Jones as Marianne and Paul Mescal in his first television role as Connell.
Award-winning production company Element Pictures says filming will take place in Dublin, Sligo and Italy.
Oscar nominated director Lenny Abrahamson and award-winning director Hettie McDonald are sharing the directorial duties.
Joining the cast are Sarah Greene (Dublin Murders, Rosie) and Aislín McGuckin (Outlander, The Nephew).
About Normal People
Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in small-town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.
At school, he’s well-liked and popular, while she’s lonely, proud and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers – one they are determined to conceal.
A year later, they’re both studying in Dublin and Marianne has found her feet in a new social world but Connell hangs at the side lines, shy and uncertain.
Following Rooney’s critically acclaimed debut novel Conversations with Friends, she was named 2017’s Sunday Times Writer of the Year Award.
Normal People was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018 and recently, it won 2019’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
In America, Normal People entered the New York Times Bestseller list at #3.
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