Conversations With Friends cast left shocked as director shares alarming filming secret
ok.co.ukNew BBC series Conversations With Friends has been a hot topic of conversation since landing on screens in the past week.The new series – based on the novel of the same name – was also written by Normal People's author Sally Rooney and directed by Lenny Abrahamson, and follows the story of students Frances and Bobbi, ex-girlfriends who become entangled in the relationship of an older couple.The series was shot in a range of places, including in Ireland and abroad in Croatia, and in a recent behind-the-scenes look, the cast joined together at the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival to share an insight into the makings of the beguiling adaptation.
And it turns out a great deal of run-ins with animals took place during filming, one of which the cast wasn't aware of. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter Sharing details from their time together filming were lead characters Alison Oliver and Joe Alwyn, but director Lenny jumped in to shock them by saying that while they filmed in Croatia there was a giant rat above their heads all along.Talking to the audience, and to a shocked Alison and Joe, he shared: "We were filming in Croatia, and there was enormous rat that kept running up and down the tree above you.
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