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09.05.2022 / 17:27
Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal Have a Group Chat Called “The Tortured Man Club”
Conversations With Friends, Rooney’s first novel, follows the conversations between two best friends and lovers, Frances and Bobbi, via text, email, instant messaging, and face-to-face interaction. Things get murky when the pair becomes entangled with older married couple Nick and Melissa.In an interview with , Joe Alwyn, who plays Nick in Hulu's adaptation of the 2017 novel, said that he is in a group chat with the actor who starred as Connell in the 2020 series , also an adaptation of a Rooney novel. The name of the chat? The Tortured Man Club.Shortly after Alwyn was cast, a mutual friend created and named the WhatsApp group, “which is I guess a reflection on Connell and Nick,” Alwyn said of the histrionic name.