Sally Rooney has said the biggest challenge of adapting her hit book Normal People for the screen was translating their inner lives into outward actions.
The novel follows the relationship between Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in a small town in the west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.
Rooney has adapted it with Alice Birch into a 12-part BBC Three series starring Cold Feet actress Daisy Edgar-Jones, 21, and newcomer Paul Mescal, 24.
She said: “The biggest challenge of adapting the book was trying to make the inner lives of the characters legible through their outward actions. “In some ways Normal People is a novel about the differences between the characters’ outer and inner selves, so
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