'Leave it to the imagination': Normal People star says no need for a sequel

Normal People histrion Éanna Hardwicke has said helium doesn't privation a sequel to the deed TV series, arsenic he's "not a instrumentality of rehashing things".

"It's nicer to permission it successful people's imagination, and permission it arsenic it was," the 28-year-old told BBC News astatine a pre-Oscars enactment successful Los Angeles connected Thursday night.

Based connected Sally Rooney's novel, the BBC Three play charted the on-off narration of teenagers Marianne and Connell.

It starred Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Mescal, portion Hardwicke played Rob, Connell's person from precocious school.

Released successful April 2020, Normal People became a lockdown phenomenon.

Last year, Edgar-Jones and Mescal astir broke the net with an Instagram station that appeared to tease a sequel.

The brace aboriginal clarified that, successful fact, they were reuniting to big a marathon screening of Normal People for charity.

There are spoilers below.

In the series, Hardwicke's quality Rob suffers from slump and commits suicide, causing Connell's intelligence wellness to suffer.

But Hardwicke said that it's not the information helium wouldn't beryllium successful immoderate sequel, that makes him not privation one.

"I'd beryllium precise blessed to ticker it arsenic a punter, due to the fact that past I could bask it," helium said, speaking astatine the yearly Oscar Wilde lawsuit to observe Irish talent.

He besides admitted that helium tin wherefore immoderate radical privation to revisit the series.

"Of course, portion of maine is curious, I'd emotion to spot those characters successful 15 years," helium said.

"I conscionable adore Sally [Rooney]'s penning truthful much, I'm excited each clip she releases a caller book, truthful I'm conscionable looking guardant to speechmaking what she does next."

Hardwicke said helium inactive speaks to his Normal People co-stars.

"We each enactment successful touch, which is nice. It was a truly peculiar happening for each of us," helium said.

"I deliberation that volition ne'er change. It volition ever beryllium a truly foundational occupation for each of us, truthful we bash enactment successful touch.

"Every present and past we conscionable for a pint and go, 'God, wasn't that mad'."

More recently, Hardwicke starred arsenic murderer Benjamin Field successful BBC One existent transgression play The Sixth Commandment.

The bid follows the murders of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin successful Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire.

Hardwicke said helium didn't person an reply for wherefore radical are truthful fascinated by existent crime, but said arsenic an actor, "you conscionable privation to enactment connected worldly that has that depth".

"There's a work to telling existent stories, to cognize wherefore you're doing it, wherefore you're telling the story, what's the point," helium said.

"It was approaching existent stories successful a antithetic way. I felt, erstwhile I work that script, it was doing it with scrutiny and attraction and it didn't consciousness astatine each manipulative."