Buzzy bestseller “Normal People,” the talk of the book world when it was published in 2018, is being adapted for the small screen.
Hulu’s series of the same name, premiering Wednesday, is a 12-episode drama following young Irish couple Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones, “War of the Worlds”) and Connell (newcomer Paul Mescal) through several years of their tumultuous relationship. “There are few books or scripts that I’ve read that I’ve wanted to do more,” Mescal, 24, tells The Post “It’s an actor’s dream.
The characters are people that you understand, and people that you feel are human beings rather than invented to serve a narrative. “They really feel like people in the world that we live in — I just haven’t met them yet.” The book, which
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