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Daisy Edgar-Jones is open to returning to Normal People with Paul Mescal, praising Sally Rooney’s stories.
Despite a busy schedule, Edgar-Jones expresses love for her character and interest in exploring more.
Edgar-Jones also talked about her new film, Twisters, and how her characters share introspective qualities.

Daisy Edgar-Jones says she is open to returning to the hit limited series Normal People with Paul Mescal. Before her appearances in big movies like Fresh, Where the Crawdads Sing, and currently Twisters (alongside Glen Powell), Edgar-Jones starred in the hit drama Normal People, based on the novel of the same name by Sally Rooney.

Released in April 2020 at the zenith of the COVID pandemic, the show resonated with audiences worldwide and launched the careers of its two leading stars, Edgar-Jones and Mescal, to new heights. While both are currently busy on major blockbusters – Paul Mescal stars in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 – Edgar-Jones said she’d love to return to the world of Sally Rooney’s stories.

Speaking to the BBC, Daidy Edgar-Jones addressed a potential Normal People return. The 12-episode miniseries, which explores the growing and complicated relationship between two Irish teenagers, Marianne (Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Mescal), became a sensation during lockdown.

Despite being a limited series, fans are desperate to see Connell and Marianne return following the show’s emotional ending. During the interview, Daisy Edgar-Jones heaped praise on the show, and said she would love to return to the character in the future. The actress said:

“I love those characters. It would be wonderful to explore them again. Normal People was a series that was such a lockdown phenomenon. I think it introduced Paul and I to a lot of people and film-makers. If [Sally Rooney] is up for writing a new story, who knows. Keeping it open. Always open.”

Daisy Edgar-Jones Is Enjoying the Twisters Press Tour

While Normal People fans may be waiting some time before any potential sequel is greenlit, they don’t have to wait long to see Daisy Edgar-Jones return to their screens. Twisters, a reboot/sequel/revival of the 1996 disaster movie Twister, is just days away from hitting theaters. In the film, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, Edgar-Jones plays Kate Cooper, a retired storm chaser who’s brought back to the field to test a new technology which could disperse tornadoes and save thousands of lives.

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For her co-star, Glen Powell (who’s previously starred in Top Gun: Maverick, Hit Man, and Anyone But You), in-person press tours are nothing new. But, Daisy Edgar-Jones is a newbie to in-person interviews as Normal People is a product of the COVID pandemic. Addressing the current press tour, and not being stuck behind a laptop on Zoom, the actress said:

“I haven’t done that many in-person interviews yet. It’s so nice.”

While Twisters is of a completely different genre to Normal People, Daisy Edgar-Jones says her character in the new film shares similarities with her breakout role in the show. Just like Paul Mescal has a penchant for playing heartbreaking, emotionally complex characters (see Normal People, Aftersun, and All of Us Strangers), Daisy Edgar-Jones believes her characters all share similar introspections and complex histories. She explained:

“I think my characters tend to be, and have been historically, quite introspective. Or characters who have a complex inner life, who are dealing with things that are heavy and emotional.”

Twisters
blows into theaters on July 17, 2024.
Normal People
is available to stream on Hulu.