In 2020, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal burst onto the scene in Hulu’s tackle Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel, Regular Individuals. Since then, they’ve each change into main names, and for Edgar-Jones particularly, she’s gone on to make much more profitable book-to-screen variations. So, whereas interviewing her about her new movie on the 2025 film schedule, which is predicated on the novel On Swift Horses, I needed to ask how the Hulu hit impacts her work on different variations.
Once I watched the book-to-screen adaptation of Shannon Pufahl’s On Swift Horses, I couldn’t assist however reminisce on the opposite tasks Edgar-Jones has achieved which can be based mostly on books. From the field workplace and streaming hit The place the Crawdads Sing to one of many finest true crime sequence of 2022, Beneath the Banner of Heaven, it’s a formidable record. Nevertheless, I used to be principally occupied with Regular Individuals. So, I requested her if that 2020 present has impacted how she makes variations at present, and in response, she mentioned:
I feel they actually have impacted how I sort of method e book variations now. As a result of I feel, particularly once I was approaching Regular Individuals, it was such a zeitgeist-y e book at the moment, and I used to be actually like, ‘Oh my gosh. I actually really feel numerous strain to get this proper.’
Effectively, they obtained it proper, and to today, folks use their Hulu subscription to stream Regular Individuals, and the e book continues to be broadly learn. So, it is smart that she felt the strain. Nevertheless, they crafted one thing stunning and captured the tone of Marianne and Connell’s love story completely.
That’s the lesson the Twisters actress took together with her, too, as she instructed me:
However I feel what that taught me was what it’s worthwhile to try to do is seize the tone of that story, I feel, and what you felt while you learn it. And so now it helps me really feel much more free.
Clearly, she did this immaculately in Regular Individuals, seeing as folks like me nonetheless discuss it and are moved by it. It’s so beloved, Edgar-Jones has been requested a few potential Season 2, and Paul Mescal has been requested about taking part in Connell once more, too, proving the immense love folks have for this adaptation.
At this level, Daisy Edgar-Jones is a professional at capturing a personality who originated in a e book. She’s additionally achieved it once more together with her latest movie, On Swift Horses. Talking particularly about how Regular Individuals impacted her work on this piece of historic fiction, the actress mentioned:
So once I learn this e book, I discovered it so stunning. However I used to be actually excited to see the way you then sort of take up all of it, after which sort of let go of it, with the intention to simply try to seize the tone. And actually, it is about pairing the filmmaker with the fabric, I feel. And [director Daniel Minahan] is so excellent for this adaptation, he simply obtained these characters and the story so nicely.
They definitely did a superb job. Like Regular Individuals, On Swift Horses is a deeply emotional story about folks coming of age. Nevertheless, this story is about proper after the Korean Struggle, not within the modern-day. It explores concepts of sexuality, playing, luck and love, and it’s an attractive and sweeping story.
Total, I feel this film is one other instance of a beautiful piece of labor from Daisy Edgar-Jones, and it looks as if she ought to maintain together with her adaptation recreation, as she mentioned:
I appear to at all times be doing e book variations.
Now, in case you are trying to see these variations for your self, you should buy the books these tasks are based mostly on wherever you purchase your novels. If you wish to watch the tasks, Regular Individuals is on Hulu, and On Swift Horses is taking part in in theaters proper now.