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Melissa invites the friends to her birthday party.

Emmanuel Okoye as Andrew, Aideen's boyfriendīest friends and former lovers Frances and Bobbi meet Melissa, an author, and Nick, her actor husband.

Sallay Garnett as Evelyn, Melissa and Nick's friend.

Tadhg Murphy as Derek, a long time friend of Nick and Melissa.

Kerry Fox as Valerie Taylor-Gates, Melissa's agent.

Tommy Tiernan as Dennis Flynn, Frances' alcoholic father.

Justine Mitchell as Paula Flynn, Frances' mother.

Caoimhe Coburn Gray as Aideen, Frances and Bobbi's friend.

Alex Murphy as Philip, Frances and Bobbi's friend.

The series received generally favourable reviews with praise for the performance of lead cast and aesthetics.

Conversations with Friends was first broadcast on. Developed by Element Pictures for BBC Three and Hulu in association with RTÉ, it is the second adaptation by this crew of a Rooney novel after Normal People in 2020. Melissa later invites the girls over to her place for dinner and there they meet her actor husband Nick, played by Joe Alwyn ( Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, The Favourite) who’s shyness is striking next to his wife’s bolshy confidence.Conversations with Friends is an Irish television serial based on the 2017 novel of the same name by the Irish author Sally Rooney. “We dropped the f**king but kept the poetry.” “We were f**king back then too but we don’t do that anymore,” Bobbi says with a smirk, when Melissa asks them how long they’ve been performing poetry together.

At one of their shows they meet author Melissa Conway, played by Jemima Kirke ( Girls, Sex Education), an older, married woman who is instantly fascinated by the youthful, seemingly carefree best friends. The two college students remain inseparable, despite breaking up three years earlier, and often perform spoken-word poetry together in bars around Dublin. Her ex-girlfriend turned best friend, Bobbi (Sasha Lane), is self-assured and outspoken. It asks whether you have to experience something yourself to understand it and whether you can love two people in different ways.įrances (newcomer Alison Oliver), a 21-year-old Trinity College student, is smart and funny. The series explores female friendship, forbidden love, and the ties that bind us. Set in Dublin, Conversations with Friends follows the story of two lovers turned best friends who strike up a friendship with an older, married couple and soon become entangled in their relationship.