Conversations With Friends director Lenny Abrahamson has pledged the TV drama will get sexier.
The adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel has been slammed for being slow compared to Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones’ raunchy scenes in the TV version of her other bestseller Normal People.
The 2020 show was a massive hit with audiences and sparked a huge public reaction including on Joe Duffy’s RTE radio phone-in.
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Lenny, who directed Normal People and Conversations With Friends, joked: “I would say perhaps not this week, but there are other weeks where I have said and joked recently that Joe might need to have his Ready Brek.”
Ahead of its debut last night, he told Ian Dempsey’s Breakfast Show on Today FM viewers will recognise the locations.
Lenny said: “I would say actually, if anything, Dublin features even more in Conversations than in Normal People. Frances is living smack bang in the city centre, just off O’Connell Street.
“And so we spend a lot of time there, there is loads of Dublin in there.”
Corkonian newcomer Alison Oliver, 24, plays the lead role of Frances opposite Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Joe Alwyn, 31.
Tommy Tiernan also stars in a role like we have never seen him perform before.
Lenny said: “He is amazing. Unlike his character in Derry Girls, this is Tommy playing deadly serious. He is brilliant in it.
“He plays Frances’ father, who has got a drink problem and kind of estranged from his ex and in a way his daughter.
“He is a great actor Tommy, and takes it incredibly seriously.
“And when he is on set, he is really working. I have to say I really admire him greatly as an actor.”
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