Normal People stars are reuniting for two charity mini-episodes set 40 years in the future

London Evening Standard

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal will reprise their Hulu series roles Friday for the Irish version of Comic Relief. “There’s a beautiful piece called Normal Older People, which is imagining what would have happened to Marianne and Connell 40 years from now,” said British filmmaker Richard Curtis, who co-founded Comic Relief. “I promise you, these are two very special bits. It’s so much better than anything we’ve ever made. I mean I can’t even say all about it because there’s a guest star in it. But it’s really, it’s really beautiful. One of the things about Comic Relief is it just gives opportunities for things to happen that would never happen. I can’t imagine any context in which they would have allowed this little sort of extra special into the world of Normal People." The special episodes will be broadcast on Irish channel RTÉ this Friday as part of RTÉ Does Comic Relief. It's unclear if the mini-episodes will end up on Hulu and/or YouTube.