Emma Appleton and Bel Powley have been cast as the leads in the upcoming TV adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s novel Everything I Know About Love.
The actresses will star as childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy respectively as the bestselling book is transformed in a seven-part BBC series directed by Choo Moo-Young and produced by Working Title Television.
Emma (Maggie) and Bel (Birdy), both 29, will be joined by the likes of Marli Siu playing Nell and Jordan Peters as Neil in the TV version of Dolly’s ‘wildly funny, occasionally heart-breaking, internationally bestselling memoir’.
New role: Emma Appleton (pictured) and Bel Powley have been cast as the leads in the upcoming TV adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s novel Everything I Know About Love
While making their TV debuts in the series are Aliyah Odoffin (Amara), Connor Finch (Street) and Ryan Brown as Nathan.
Emma is known for her roles as Feef Symonds in spy thriller Traitors and for playing Princess Renfri in Netflix series The Witcher.
She has also appeared in and short film Dreamlands and is set to feature in upcoming Sex Pistols miniseries Pistol, where she plays Nancy Spungen.
Star: The actresses will star as childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy respectively as the bestselling book is transformed in a seven-part BBC series directed by Choo Moo-Young and produced by Working Title Television (Bel Powney pictured)
Meanwhile, Bel has had roles in Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, BBC drama Informer and coming-of-age film Diary of a Teenage Girl in which she played the lead role as Minnie Goetze.
The actress became engaged to actor beau Douglas Booth in July this year.
Journalist and author Dolly’s memoir Everything I Know About Love is a funny and personal account of surviving your 20s, with the semi-fictionalised adaptation focusing on friends Maggie and Birdy.
Actors: Emma (Maggie) and Bel (Birdy), both 29, will be joined by the likes of Marli Siu (left) playing Nell and Jordan Peters (right) as Neil in the TV version of Dolly’s ‘wildly funny, occasionally heart-breaking, internationally bestselling memoir’
Newcomer: While making their TV debuts in the series are Aliyah Odoffin (Amara), Connor Finch (Street) and Ryan Brown as Nathan (Aliyah pictured)
The show, set in 2012 and featuring flashbacks to their adolescences in the early noughties, will see the girls navigate questionable flat-shares, terrible dates, heartache and the difficulties facing an ‘unbreakable’ friendship when one of them gets a boyfriend.
The show is described by the BBC as ‘a generous, funny, warm-hearted and uplifting Sex & The City for Millennials.’
On the casting, author Dolly, 32, said: ‘I am beyond thrilled with every actor we have on board for Everything I Know About Love.
Busy girl: Emma is known for her roles as Feef Symonds in spy thriller Traitors and for playing Princess Renfri in Netflix series The Witcher
Career: Meanwhile, Bel has had roles in Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, BBC drama Informer and coming-of-age film Diary of a Teenage Girl in which she played the lead role as Minnie Goetze
Congratulations: The actress became engaged to actor beau Douglas Booth in July this year
‘Aisha Bywaters has helped us find our dream cast and we are so excited to see them inhabit the world of the show and bring its stories and relationships to life.’
While the show’s director China Moo-Young saying: ‘We have a sublime cast for Everything I Know About Love and I’m so excited to see them bring all the heart and humour of Dolly’s scripts to life on screen.
Jo McClellan, Commissioning Editor, BBC Drama also said: ‘The BBC are incredibly excited to have this talented young cast join Dolly, China and the Working Title team to create this funny, uplifting and big-hearted show about friendship and love.’
Adaptation: Journalist and author Dolly’s memoir Everything I Know About Love is a funny and personal account of surviving your 20s, with the semi-fictionalised adaptation focusing on friends Maggie and Birdy
While Surian Fletcher-Jones, Executive Producer for Working Title Television, added: ‘We at Working Title are incredibly proud to be working with the phenomenally talented Dolly Alderton.
‘It has been a real joy helping to bring her vision to life alongside our brilliant lead director, China Moo-Young and producer, Simon Maloney. We can’t wait to get going with this genuinely hilarious and heartfelt show.’
Filming for Everything I Know About Love will begin imminently in Manchester and London, and will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2022.
Thrilled: On the casting, author Dolly (pictured in 2018), 32, said: ‘I am beyond thrilled with every actor we have on board for Everything I Know About Love’