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Daisy Edgar-Jones Reacts to ‘Regular Folks’ Season 2 Hopes (Unique)

Final month, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal despatched Normal People followers right into a frenzy after they teased an upcoming mission collectively on social media — particularly when Component Photos, the producer of the difference of Sally Rooney’s 2018 best-selling guide (and one in every of former President Barack Obama’s personal picks of 2019), additionally reposted the image. The social media put up brought about widespread rumors that the announcement was one thing associated to the present.

It turned out that Mescal, 28, and Edgar-Jones, 26, have been raffling off tickets to a particular marathon screening of the present on the large display. The occasion, which passed off June 16 at a Central London cinema, included appearances from director Lenny Abrahamson, producer Ed Guiney and different “buddies from the present.”

Regardless of the frustration, lovers of the beloved Hulu limited series are nonetheless holding out hope that the sequence will one way or the other return to small screens sooner or later. 

Launched in 2020, the sequence is a modern love story set in Ireland between schoolmates-turned-unlikely lovers, Marianne (Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Mescal), whose sophisticated relationship spans a number of years all through secondary college and in college at Trinity Faculty.

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as Connell and Marianne in Regular Folks.Hulu

Whereas Mescal and Edgar-Jones have been arduous at work on a number of new tasks — equivalent to Mescal’s Gladiator II, the upcoming sequel directed by Ridley Scott, and Edgar-Jones’ hotly anticipated sequel to the 1996 hit Tornado — the latter is not utterly shutting down the potential for reprising her position for a future continuation.

Whereas talking with ET’s Nischelle Turner and Kevin Frazier from the Baha Mar Resort in Nassau, Bahamas, in regards to the upcoming launch of Twisters, Edgar-Jones confirmed that there are not any plans for a second season of Regular Folks “that I do know of,” however recollects the “actually particular” time she had filming alongside Mescal.

“We made that sequence practically 5 years in the past now, so it is loopy that it nonetheless resonates,” the British actress shared. When requested if she would reprise her position as Marianne if approached by Component Photos, Edgar-Jones did not hesitate to say sure; albeit with one caveat.

“It was the very best filming expertise — Twisters as properly. I like these characters, I like that world [and] I liked working with Paul and Lenny,” she added. “I’d like to revisit the place they’re 10 years later, however perhaps depart it just a little bit longer. Let it breathe.” 

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal on the twenty fifth British Unbiased Movie Awards at Outdated Billingsgate on Dec. 4, 2022Dave Benett/Getty Photos

Within the meantime, followers can try Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos within the upcoming sequel to the 1996 blockbuster Tornado, which starred Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton as meteorologists in pursuit of an F5 twister.

The unique was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996, incomes greater than $494 million on the worldwide field workplace. Directed by Velocity‘s Jan De Bont and government produced by Steven Spielberg, the thrilling movie featured ground-breaking particular results on the time, receiving Academy Award nominations for Finest Visible Results and Finest Sound.

Edgar-Jones and Ramos will star alongside Kiernan Shipka, Glen Powell, Maura Tierney and Sasha Lane within the Lee Isaac Chung-directed flick, they usually inform ET that their movie looks like “an actual subsequent chapter” within the iconic franchise.

“I really feel like our movie looks like an actual subsequent chapter in a very particular approach. I imply, science has improved, know-how’s improved,” Edgar-Jones defined. “It is set in 2024 [and] there’s YouTube storm chasers, there are loopy methods they’ll monitor storms. However there’s lots of love for the unique in our movie as properly.”

Ramos added, “The primary film was a basic however I believe that, now virtually 30 years later, there’s a lot extra you are able to do with visible results. And this forged is unbelievable, you already know: our fearless chief [Edgar-Jones] and our director, Lee Isaac Chung, he had an incredible imaginative and prescient. So I would not say we’re making an attempt to prime them, it is not a contest.”

Twisters storms into theaters on July 19.

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