With the world stuck indoors, the adaptation of Sally Rooney's best-selling novel was the perfect recipe for a lockdown sensation. It captured the hearts of viewers, before breaking them and putting them back together again.
Before its television debut, Normal People already had a loyal legion of literary fans, including star Daisy Edgar-Jones.
A year ago, Normal People became the huge TV hit of the first lockdown, changing the lives of its young stars, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, overnight.
The adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel was the BBC’s most-streamed series of last year, clocking up almost 63 million views on iPlayer in the eight months following its April launch.
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal talk to Caroline Frost about the breakout hit Normal People.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones (Cold Feet) and newcomer Paul Mescal star as two young lovers from a small town in the west of Ireland who share a complicated romance spanning across their teenage years to college.
