Normal People stars confirm there's no season 2 "yet"
Normal People duo Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are not making a second season after all.
Catapulted into stardom thanks to their roles as Connell and Marianne in the original romantic drama, they got everyone's hopes up this week by teasing "some news to share".
In a subsequent Instagram Stories video, though, they confirmed they're involved with a marathon screening of Normal People in London next month.
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"Hello! The news is... um, we are incredibly sorry if we led people on, it's not a season 2 announcement," said the Irishman, who will battle baboons as Lucius Verus in Gladiator II later this year.
"No, not yet!" chipped in Edgar-Jones. "There's still time, keep the faith."
They then plugged a charity raffle to attend the Normal People event, which is being held on Friday, June 16, in support of suicide and self-harm organisation Pieta and UNICEF.
Mescal and Edgar-Jones are set to be in attendance, with a special Q&A following all 12 episodes.
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This comes after Edgar-Jones reflected on the show's overnight success while appearing on The Graham Norton Show.
"When I did Normal People, I had no idea what was going to happen, and thank goodness, as I would have been too terrified to do anything," she told the talk-show host.
As for how director Lenny Abrahamson sees the future of Connell and Marianne on-screen, he told Deadline in 2020: "I'd love to revisit them in five years and find out what happened, where they are. Is somebody a father or a mother? What relationships are they in that then get disrupted by their meeting again?"
Normal People is streaming on BBC iPlayer.
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