Jemima Kirke & Sasha Lane Interview: Conversations With Friends
Hulu returns on May 15 with another Sally Rooney adaptation, turning her debut novel Conversations With Friends into a 12-episode miniseries only a few short years after Normal People, which received rave reviews and felt like a breath of fresh air at the start of the pandemic. The new show follows a sweet and shy college student named Frances (newcomer Alison Oliver) and her much more outspoken best friend Bobbi (Sasha Lane, Loki). Having previously dated themselves, they now find themselves tangled in a confusing friendship with a married couple.
The couple are successful essayist Melissa (Jemima Kirke, Sex Education) and somewhat less successful actor Nick (Joe Alwyn, The Last Letter from Your Lover), who befriend the girls in the midst of their own marital troubles. Frances and Nick soon have intense feelings for each other that lead to an affair, which has consequences for all four members of the quartet. Rooney's novel and the series alike engage in themes of honesty in relationships and the revolving door nature of love.
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Kirke and Lane spoke to Screen Rant about the different dynamics at play in Conversations With Friends and how their characters feel about Frances and Nick respectively.
Screen Rant: The relationship between Bobbi and Frances is so volatile and full of emotion. How does Bobbi feel about Frances, and what does she mean to her?
Sasha Lane: Ultimately, I think they have a very deep connection, because it was her first friend when she moved to Ireland. It's someone that she fell in love with romantically, as well as just as a person. I think they're very intimate with each other in multiple ways.
She just really feels for Frances. There's a lot of
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