Alice Feeney
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194 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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that's the first one this is the first one that's actually been filmed and i got to visit the set and my characters who've lived inside my head for years came to life and i'm walking and talking his and hers is the first one that you published it wasn't book number three number three number three it was the well-behaved one that was three months in the making and you were like that's why
Yes, because it was such a well-behaved book child. No, it's fantastic. And the TV show is actually very true to the book. They've done the most incredible job. I think the scripts are fantastic. There's a twist or two in there that I wish I'd written. I sort of want to go back and do another version because it's so clever what they've done. And the whole cast were just fantastic.
And John Bernthal, who was in The Walking Dead and more recently The Bear, he's Jack Harper. And I confess my eyes leaked a little bit the first time he was walking towards me because for me now he is forever Jack.
And so to see Jack come to life and to see all these scenes where he's saying things that I wrote and. Oh, it was just, there's nothing like it. They were so sweet to me. It was my birthday while we were there.
They made a birthday cake. They all sang happy birthday. I really loved the school uniforms in the show for the school that's called St. Hillary's. And I told the costume designer, the uniform is so similar to how it was in my head. So they made me a uniform to fit me. I've got my own St. Hillary's school uniform to take home. That's amazing. No, I loved it.
And they gave me a friendship bracelet when I first arrived, which for anyone who's read the book is actually a bad sign. But I'm still here. I'm still here.
It's just a nice little touch. So no, I've had such a fantastic experience and I can't wait for people to see it.
for a tv show you have a little bit more time yes it's almost the other way around you're almost trying to expand the story in certain ways but also find neat little ways to break it into say six or eight episodes okay um and i think my books lend themselves quite well to that because i like having lots of twists yeah so there are twists to choose from in terms of you know having a nice cliffhanger to end an episode on hopefully so the people want to watch the next one straight away but
How it's always worked for me is that the new book will go out to the industry before it gets published. And then I've been very lucky, touch wood. We always seem to have quite a few people interested. So I'll meet with different people and sometimes they might want to make a movie or they might want to make a TV show. But I'll always base it more on the people, the producer themselves.
or the sometimes it'd been an actor who has come forward with the offer and for me i just want them to love the book and look after it the same way that i would you know the books are my children i always want them to be in safe hands So I've only ever said yes to people who I think are going to do a good job of it.
And they all have, you know, everyone I've worked with has just been so fantastic. And we've got his and hers coming out this summer. But we've also got Sometimes I Lie in the pipeline.
I always worry about what's secret and there's so many secrets.
No, it's okay. So I think we've had a press release about the early stages of that. So it's a producer called Tommy Harper who did Top Gun Maverick. Oh, I think I did hear this. And Wednesday and he just did Beetlejuice and he's working with a couple of people in the UK as well. And so that's going out soon. So there are things I can't say about it.
Again, amazing scripts and all of these people have been honestly such fun to work with. It's been a really pleasant experience for me. So I'm all for adaptations. So you said that the manuscript goes out to these, the people. Goes out to lots of different people. And if producers or actors.
Yes. Yes.
yeah oh wow I always wondered that part because I don't know you know if sometimes the book will come out and then a show or movie won't come out for years and years so I didn't know if it would you know they pick it up after all the buzz that it gets there are so many secrets nobody told me before I became an author that you had to keep so many secrets so there is lovely beautiful ugly screen shaped news as well that I'm not allowed to share yet for example um but yes I'm sure one day we're going to see Grady Green on the screen too and I can't wait
You could have a podcast.
I don't think so. I've always said no. Okay. I don't really know why. I just never particularly wanted to see that story on screen. Okay. And the only other book that I've always said no to in terms of screen adaptations so far is Daisy Darker. I think because I love her too much.
Daisy... honestly felt like family to me and I remember when we went to the printers I cried partly because it's such a beautiful book and I was so happy to see it finally published but also because it if you're at the printers you can't do any more edits you know it's too late yeah so I was really saying goodbye to Daisy after five years of writing her finally and um I felt really sad about it.
So I think one day I hope Daisy Darker would be made into a TV show or a movie, but it would have to be set in the UK. It would have to be true, very true-ish, I think, to the story. Whereas for some of my books, I think it's more about the characters and the story, and you could almost set it anywhere if you wanted to. With Beautiful Ugly, for me, Scotland almost played a character in itself.
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