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EXCLUSIVE: Here's some hot casting news for this week's European Film Market – I can reveal that Paul Mescal, who broke out in last year's hit series Normal People, and Mank actor Tom Burke have been set to lead Irish thriller Bring Them Down. Set in the wild landscape of the West of Ireland, the film follows an Irish…

Lenny Abrahamson was nominated a few years ago for the Best Director Oscar for helming Room, which opened up several cinematic opportunities for him. Yet for his latest project, Hulu’s Normal People, he says there was no question he wanted to work in television. During Deadline's virtual Contenders Television: The…

With four Emmy nominations announced on Tuesday, BBC/ Hulu limited series Normal People got its just desserts—almost. Although one of its two leads, Paul Mescal, received an acting nom, Daisy Edgar-Jones did not. As magnetic love match Connell and Marianne in this adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel, the…

There's something odd about Normal People. It is, ostensibly, a show about two teenagers who fall in love, then navigate a very typical series of bust-ups and reconciliations. So far, so normal. And the show begins innocently enough. Set in Ireland, we see the popular and sporty Connell (Paul Mescal) get together with…

Hulu’s Normal People so powerfully details the heart-wrenching pain of first love, and the chemistry between its two lead actors is clearly electric. In fact, during auditions for the show, which follows the love story between bullied schoolgirl Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal), their first…

Hulu has given a straight-to-series order to Normal People, a drama adapted from Sally Rooney’s recent best-seller. The 12-episode half-hour series hails from Element Pictures in association with BBC Three. Normal People follows the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell (Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul…