Conversations With Friends, Rooney’s first novel, follows the conversations between two best friends and lovers, Frances and Bobbi, via text, email, instant messaging, and face-to-face interaction.
Things get murky when the pair becomes entangled with older married couple Nick and Melissa.In an interview with , Joe Alwyn, who plays Nick in Hulu's adaptation of the 2017 novel, said that he is in a group chat with the actor who starred as Connell in the 2020 series , also an adaptation of a Rooney novel.
The name of the chat? The Tortured Man Club.Shortly after Alwyn was cast, a mutual friend created and named the WhatsApp group, “which is I guess a reflection on Connell and Nick,” Alwyn said of the histrionic name.
After exchanging tortured man texts for a while, Alwyn and Mescal finally met IRL on the set of Conversations With Friends in Dublin, Ireland. “He’s a lovely, lovely guy,” Alwyn said.
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