Ready for her close-up! Alison Oliver couldn’t believe her luck when she was cast in Hulu’s Conversations With Friends — having just graduated from college shortly before getting her big break.The Ireland native, 23, got a crash course in TV acting after she landed the role of Frances in the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel by the same name.
Conversations With Friends is set to premiere on the streaming service on Sunday, May 15.“I cannot believe that happened. It was just the most surreal experience,” Oliver told The Irish Times in an interview published on Saturday, May 7. “Prior to getting the part, I was already a massive Sally Rooney fan.
I had read the book before I auditioned.”She added: “And so I guess I already had my own connection to it. When the audition came around I thought, ‘Oh, my God!’ I guess in those situations, all you can do is do your best and hope for the best.”Rooney, 31, previously found success on the small screen in 2020 when she turned her 2018 novel, Normal People, into a limited series for BBC Three in the U.K.
and later on Hulu. The show was nominated for four Emmys and helped launch the careers of its stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, both of whom Oliver has become close with in recent years.Oliver, who stars alongside Joe Alwyn, Jemima Kirke and Sasha Lane in Conversations With Friends, may be new to Hollywood, but her “little tribe” in London is filled with stars.“I knew Paul because he was three years above me in college, so when I found out that I was going to do this, he reached out a couple of times and has been really, really nice,” Oliver told the Belfast Times earlier this month. “I know Daisy a little bit too.
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