Alison Oliver auditioned for ConversationsWithFriends over Zoom. Next thing she knew, she was on set with Joe Alwyn. naomi_pike spoke with the Irish newcomer on the brink of stardom
Photo: Rachel Lamb After some swift rescheduling, Alison Oliver sits down next to me on the banquette of a between-service London hotel restaurant. The 23-year-old Irish newcomer plays the lead in the BBC and Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel, Conversations With Friends. Now, with the show set to air after much speculation and anticipation, hers is the whirlwind schedule you might expect of someone on the brink of stardom.
Normal People, Rooney’s first to-camera outing, starring the now-megafamous Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal as will-they, won’t-they lovestruck teens, followed a familiar love story. Conversations With Friends is a more complex narrative, centering on Frances and Bobbi and their ménage à quatre with an older artsy couple: Melissa and Nick .
Photo: Rachel Lamb Raised in Cork, Ireland’s second city on the southwest coast with a population of just under 200,000 people, Oliver is the youngest of three daughters born to a social-worker mother and a father who worked in the automotive industry. Her sisters — twins, once what felt like a “massive” six years older — now work as a drinks brand manager and a radiographer turned sustainable-activewear entrepreneur.
This production has called on much of the same crew as Normal People, including director Lenny Abrahamson and intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien, whose work on Normal People brought a new focus to the need for such an expert on sets. Photo: Rachel Lamb Starting her postcollege career here, the “What’s next?” question is inevitably swarming Oliver. Currently filming Best Interests — a BBC drama also starring Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan that revolves around a family with an agonizing decision over end-of-life care for their youngest daughter — Oliver would also love to try her hand at a stint on a West End stage.
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