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Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones had to ‘awkwardly snog the air’ during audition self-tape

Show has been praised for its representation of consensual sex

Ellie Harrison
Thursday 30 April 2020 10:29 BST
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Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones has revealed she had to “awkwardly snog" the air when she was auditioning for the lead role in the hit BBC show.

The acclaimed TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel stars Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal as Marianne and Connell, two Irish teenagers from different backgrounds who fall in love.

It was dubbed by one magazine the “horniest show on TV” and has been praised by many for its representation of sexual consent.

After a fan tweeted about Marianne and Connell’s first kiss in the series, Daisy Edgar-Jones replied with a laughing emoji, writing: “This scene was my first audition scene and I had to awkwardly snog mid air during my self tape.”

Normal People was extremely popular with critics, and was given five stars by The Independent’s reviewer Ed Cumming.

He wrote: "It’s a beautiful, pitch-perfect adaptation that captures all the intensity and longing of the novel and will bring Rooney’s work to the attention of those who don’t know it, all five of them."

Viewers hailed the drama as “abnormally brilliant” on Twitter.

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