I always knew I wanted the show to shoot in New York for every generation New York has held something of being a place of dreams, particularly for millennial girls. I also loved coming to London for a few weeks it felt like we were all going on a school trip and it was weirdly bonding as a whole crew. I loved shooting there and every person on that set was the very best at that job. I drank an enormous amount of M&S tinned cocktails on the West Coast train to Manchester. I remember the first time that I saw Emma (Appleton) in a chemistry test, I just knew it was love. It was so like when you meet someone that you like. Charlotte decided there would never be a radiator shown in our house that wouldn't have some ratty pants hanging off it. It's quite disgusting living with a bunch of girls in their twenties. Plus memorabilia from nights out stolen road signs and fish and chip shop signs. Charlotte, who's our Production Designer, just completely nailed this hinterland of somewhere between student and adulthood in design where it's kind of nearly nice, but it's also mixed in with hangovers from adolescence and bizarre kitsch findings like a light in the shape of a baguette on the kitchen wall, which I never quite understood. What was it like walking on set and seeing those locations come to life? Imagine if they weren’t happy, I wouldn’t have a TV show. They miraculously decided to carry on talking to me and being friends with me even after I wrote about them relentlessly for years. The people who inspired the story are my best mates. What do the people who inspired the story think about the TV series? That’s a dated reference! I thought your script goes into the sliding doors and then comes out as a TV show two minutes later. So it’s amazing watching it come to life but it’s not a Stars in Your Eyes transformation. Then you are talking about the colour of someone’s hair in the grade. Then you're talking about music, then you're talking about the music you can't afford which then has to be replaced with other music. You do your research, then you redraft the scripts, then you have a million meetings about props and what posters are on the walls of everyone's bedroom. But there are so many layers of getting it right. I thought when people say it’s shooting for four months that it’s all sort of done in four months. What does it feel like to see the show come to life?Īmazing, but it's a cumulative and quite protracted experience, which I think I hadn’t quite realised. It’s a romantic comedy drama about friendship and a coming-of-age story. But it is also a "raucous girl gang show", set in a 2012 London house-share inhabited by four girls – Maggie, Birdy and their mates from university, Amara (Aliyah Odoffin in her debut TV appearance) and Nell (Marli Siu: Alex Rider) The series is an unflinching deep dive into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations and begs the question: can platonic love survive romantic love as we grow up?ĭolly Alderton (Author, Screenwriter, Executive Producer) introduces the show below.Įverything I Know About Love begins on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Tuesday 7th June at 10.40pmĬould you summarise Everything I Know About Love? The central love story of Everything I Know About Love is between childhood best friends Maggie (Emma Appleton: Pistol, The Witcher, Traitors) and Birdy (Bel Powley: The Morning Show, Informer, Diary Of A Teenage Girl). What would you like to ask them? Email us at or add your questions in the blog comments below.Ĭreated and adapted for television by Dolly Alderton and inspired by her own wildly funny, occasionally heart-breaking, internationally bestselling memoir of the same name, Everything I Know About Love will give an unflinching account of surviving your 20s. Writer Dolly Alderton and director China Moo-Young are our guests on our next Ask the Write Questions podcast recording 9th June.
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