Normal People fans, listen up. After the protagonists of the heart-breaking, heart-wrenching and earth-shattering adaptation that requires little introduction teased a surprise project earlier this week, they have finally ruled out that it is not a second season of the much-loved series after all.
'We're incredibly sorry if we led people on, it's not a season two announcement,' Paul Mescal confirmed in an Instagram video alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, who played Marianne in the BBC series. The surprise project between the pair is, in fact, a marathon screening of Normal People in June that the actors are involved with.
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Fans of the show needn't lose faith just yet though, as Edgar-Jones emphasised in the clip that while they're not announcing a second season yet, there's still a chance for a future series. 'There's still time, keep the faith,' she said.
Taking to Instagram on May 28, Edgar-Jones shared an image of her and her co-star, Paul Mescal, who played Connell in the series, with the caption, 'We’ve got some news to share!! Watch this space ❤️'
Fans of the hit series interpreted the pair's pose in the selfie (both of them were holding up two fingers) as a sign that they were hinting towards a sophomoric season of the adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel, which was released to rapturous applause during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A second season has never explicitly been ruled out by its showrunners either. Lenny Abrahamson, one of the series' showrunners, told Deadline's Award Line Magazine in July 2020, 'I have a sneaking thing in the back of my head that if everybody was willing, and if the stars aligned, I’d love to revisit them in five years and find out what happened, where they are. Is somebody a father or a mother? What relationship are they in that then get disrupted by their meeting again?'
Normal People, which was originally published as a novel in 2018, tells the story of school friends Marianne and Connell, played by Mescal, as they navigate the complicated dynamic of their friendship, and the romantic roots that begin to take hold of it.
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