Yep, We’re Getting Another Marian Keyes Adaptation – & Now We Have The Cast

Sarah Greene

We’re very excited for The Walsh Sisters to start later this month on RTÉ. But that’s not the only Marian Keyes adaptation we’re getting.

Netflix announced last year that they would be adapting her beloved book Grown Ups and now we have the incredibly stacked cast for the project.

Sarah Greene and Aisling Bea will lead the cast for the upcoming adaptation which has started filming in Dublin this week.

Sarah Greene will play Jessie while Aisling will play Cara.

They will be joined by Bad Sisters star Barry Ward as Johnny and Love/Hate’s Robert Sheehan as Liam.

Also in the cast is Line of Duty’s very own Adrian Dunbar will play Canice. Amy-Leigh Hickman (YOU) will play Nell, Sinéad Cusack (Marcella) will play Rose and Karin Hanczewski (Call My Agent) will play Ed.

Screen International star of Tomorrow 2025 Katelyn Rose Downey will play Saoirse, while James Agnew, who has just graduated from the Lir Drama school in Dublin, will play Ferdia.

The synopsis for the show reads: “Set in south county Dublin, Grown Ups follows the chaotic lives of the Casey clan, a noisy tight-knit Irish family, who are bound together by a tangled web of loyalty, resentment, money, memory and love.

Robert Sheehan

“When the rock of the family, the ‘good son’, dies unexpectedly, it sets off a seismic emotional reckoning. Over the course of the next year, the Caseys will fall in and out of love, confront old wounds and make some new ones.

“They’ll be forced to face not only their grief, but the exhausting, relentless, and often ridiculous struggle of being an adult. Despite their age and responsibilities, the Caseys are far from grown up.”

Speaking about the adaptation Marian Keyes enthused: “

Marian Keyes said: “The filming of Grown Ups has begun in Dublin and it feels like a succession of dreams come true.

Pat Collins and Barry Ward

“On 15/10/2020 at the height of Covid, I had a zoom call with Samantha Strauss from Picking Scabs (a See-Saw Films label). She was on Australia’s Gold Coast adapting Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers. I was closeted in my Dublin bedroom, once again in lockdown. Sam had optioned the book (Grown Ups) six months earlier but this was our first time to speak; our emotional and creative connection was immediate.

“Her questions were relevant and intelligent and she was adamant that the show needed to be shot in Ireland. Countless books are optioned and very few ever make it to the screen. (I’ve been there many times lol.) Funding is usually the biggest challenge. But from that first conversation I believed Sam and I trusted her.

“Then Netflix came on board and again it was so easy to like and trust the people involved. (For a long time the only people I met related to this production were women). Then casting began and it was above and beyond my wildest dreams: what an incredibly talented group of people. Likewise the two directors and the hardworking crew.

“Being part of this, seeing it all come together has been so exciting and so much fun. I’m honoured by the hard work and commitment of everyone involved, I’m beyond grateful for all the care that’s been taken with my characters and most of all, I’m enormously proud.”

We can’t wait to watch!