NormalPeople's first-time screenwriter Sally Rooney (author of the book on which the Hulu show is based) opens up about the pressure in adapting her novel and why she avoids engaging in the discourse surrounding her work
into a TV series, but to also try her hand at adapting it to screen — her very first time writing a screenplay — she couldn't say no. Besides, she tells, she thought that because "the book is basically arranged in scenes already, this is going to be an absolute breeze. There's so much dialogue, it's going to be fine."
"Connell is so taciturn, borderline sullen. He never says anything. He certainly doesn't show much tender affection toward this character who he clearly is in love with. And then Marianne can be so spiky, and also doesn't have many friends. So it's not that she's having these intimate conversations where she says 'my feelings about Connell are X, Y and Z,' it's all internal," Rooney says.
Below, Rooney discusses her experience learning how to write for the screen, the biggest changes from the book, news about her next novel, and avoiding reviews.I didn't start working on the screenwriting until after. Publication in the UK and Ireland was in September 2018, so it was probably between that and the American publication, which was April 2019, that I started working on the screenwriting.
Obviously the the degree of buzz around a literary novel is never going to be — even the biggest one is still going to be a lot less noisy than the television show. But even for me,as a book was a lot in terms of the conversation that was happening around it, the discourse. But it's funny because I did interviews, and so those come out and then people feel that you are participating in the discourse. Which you kind of are, but you're not reading it or engaging in the feedback loop.
To be honest, when I'm when I'm working on a new project it kind of takes over my brain completely and I can't really imagine ever doing anything with my life ever again. I sort of believe that when I finish this novel, if indeed that ever happens, I will never write again. So for now it's just the new book and if that finishes — which please god, it will — it's completely open as to what I will do next. I have no idea.
The broad contours of the story are very faithful to the contours of the story from the book. I think we felt from the beginning that this is the story that we want to adapt, so let's just keep it. But of course, you have to find new ways of telling that story.
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