At TV market Mipcom in Cannes this week the team behind BBC-Hulu series “Normal People” – led by Lenny Abrahamson, the Oscar nominated director of “Room” – prese…
, one of the producers of Best Picture Oscar nominees “Room” and “The Favourite,” was an executive producer on “Normal People.” Element Pictures, the company Guiney runs alongside Andrew Lowe, started pursuing the rights to Rooney’s novel when it was at galley stage in the spring of last year, Guiney explained. Through Rose Garnett, head of BBC Films, Element then allied themselves with the BBC in their bid to clinch the hotly contested rights.
“My response to the book was so immediate; it’s why the book has been such a phenomenon,” Abrahamson said. “When I read it I felt like these people are you and me. They are not in some extreme situation; they are not involved in some transgressive event. They are recognizably you and me, and yet at the same time the story is so compelling, so fresh, so original; it is about love, it’s about first love, it’s about how extraordinarily positive as well as challenging that can be.
“For me it’s always about truthfulness, about access to the inner lives of people, it’s about emotion and it’s about cast. So the way I approach everything is to try and find the right people to help me get to the truth of what it is that this thing is about.” After seeing hundreds of actresses in the U.K., Ireland, Australia and the U.S., they found Edgar Jones in London. “When we got Paul and Daisy together I had that same feeling that I got when I had Brie [Larson] and Jacob [Tremblay] [the stars of ‘Room’]. I feel they are as extraordinary a pair and as perfect a pair as any people that I have cast in any movie,” Abrahamson said.’s novel, I thought: ‘God I really recognize this human being.
Abrahamson was to direct the first six episodes, but Norton said: “We were very keen to find a female director for the second block, and we also wanted a director who could stand alongside Lenny in terms of skill and ability.” They secured Hettie McDonald, who had directed the Starz-BBC TV series “Howards End,” written by Kenneth Lonergan, adapting E.M. Forster’s novel. “We fought to get Hettie. That involved giving her the freedom to bring her own voice to the second block as well.
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