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Daisy Edgar-Jones says 'it's hard to top' Normal People after becoming a household name thanks to 'truly magical' role as lovelorn Marianne
Edgar-Jones admits Marianne still casts a tall shadow over her career, despite much of it being invested in big-budget Hollywood productions.
Released while the United Kingdom was trapped in the deep freeze of national lockdown, the show followed the lives of lovelorn Irish teenagers Marianne Sheridan and Connor Waldren and their emotionally fraught, stop-start relationship. With its glossy Hollywood sheen and no-expense spared CGI effects it'l a far cry from her TV debut as Olivia, the teenage daughter of David and Karen Marsden, in ITV drama Cold Feet, a role she took while sitting her real-life A-levels. Instead, the former co-stars revealed their surprise was that they would instead be hosting a marathon screening of Normal People's first season in order to raise funds for Unicef as well as suicide prevention charity Pieta.
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