News about Lenny Abrahamson

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: As Prince Andrew ponders his strategy to discredit Virginia Giuffre's recollections, might he seek inspiration from nephew Harry's account of Meghan's first meeting with the Queen, when she asked Harry to identify HM's 'assistant'? 'I asked who she was talking about,' Harry writes in Spare. "The man holding the purse," Mmeg replied. "The guy who led her to the door" was the man who carried her to the door.' 'That wasn't her servant,' Harry explained.

When filming scenes for Lenny Abrahamson's Normal People and Conversations with Friends, which were based on Sally Rooney books, Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal worked with the same intimacy coordinator, Ita O'Brien. In Variety's Actors on Actors, the scenes are talked about.' They're rehearsed.' Every movement is almost choreographed like a dance or a confrontation. And though there is no freedom within, they are certainly blocked.'

"Conversations With Friends" on BBC chronicles two best friends who are embroiled in a love triangle with a married couple whose one of them attends on a night out. What follows is a complicated web of relationships that they are unable to comprehend. The book is Sally Rooney's latest book and accompanying series, "Normal People," which became one of the most watched dramas in 2020. We talked to Maria Moore, lead hairstylist and makeup artist on "Conversations With Friends," about what it was like to bring the show's first day to life. "I'm actually an Irish person, but I thought, 'I kind of know these people,'" Moore says of POPSUGAR. "I had a gobs of my head the first time were both realistic and urban." I wanted the hair and makeup looks to be completely realistic and look like something I'd see every day.