As the lead in NormalPeople, DaisyEdgarJones is having a major career moment, one which she's been experiencing from the confines of her London home
Whereas many rising stars about to be jettisoned into the public eye thanks to a TV show or movie might expect to be shepherded by teams of publicists between late night talk show sofas, photographer’s studios, magazines and newspaper offices, hotels for press junkets and perhaps even a few long-haul flights, for Daisy Edgar-Jones the COVID-19 lockdown has seen the usual media circuit stripped back to whatever can be achieved from her bedroom.Normal People.
Soon after, she discovered that an adaptation was being developed after overhearing her boyfriend help a friend, also an actor, record a self-tape in her front room for the lead role of Marianne, the awkward heroine whose secretive and complex relationship with Connell is the story’s beating heart.
As for the friend, Edgar-Jones claims she was “really lovely about it” when the part eventually came her way. “It’s strange when you’re both actors.” Her father, now the head of Sky Arts, the theater and music-skewed channel from Comcast-owned Sky, was actually an exec producer for Channel 4 on the somewhat less highbrow reality showwhen Edgar-Jones was growing up. Not that she was allowed to watch it. "Apparently it was too rude," she admits.
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