HULU Bobbi (Sasha Lane) and Frances (Alison Oliver) with Melissa (Jemima Kirke). Jemima Kirke as Melissa, a hotshot writer, in “Conversations with Friends.” HULU Bobbi (Sasha Lane), left, and Frances (Alison Oliver) right, are college aged ex girlfriends. Soon enough, Frances and Bobbi become entwined in Melissa’s life with her husband, Nick (Joe Alwyn), an actor of middling success, and this leads to an affair between Frances and Nick.

When they meet Melissa (Kirke), a successful writer who’s about a decade older, she compliments their work and they exchange phone numbers. Now streaming and based on the 2017 Rooney novel of the same name, the drama series, set in Dublin, follows Frances (Alison Oliver) and Bobbi (Sasha Lane), two college-aged ex-girlfriends (and current friends) who perform spoken-word poetry together in local bars. “It was interesting for me to read, coming from a time when was a big part of the, which was now 10 years ago – which is crazy.” I looked into the hype before I got the job, and sort of understood what her place in creating the zeitgeist was,” Kirke, 37, told The Post. Jemima Kirke didn’t know who trendy author Sally Rooney was before she landed her starring role in the Hulu series “Conversations with Friends.” NY Dems propose 4% tax on Netflix, parcel deliveries and Uber to fund MTA Kathryn Hahn morphs into a slovenly columnist in ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ ‘Pretty Baby’ director on Brooke Shields’ rapist: ‘She didn’t want to name him’ Jack Harlow’s ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ debut irks fans: ‘No one wanted this’

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