{"id":14205,"date":"2025-09-11T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/14205\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:32:10","slug":"aisling-bea-sarah-greene-and-robert-sheehan-to-star-in-netflix-adaptation-of-grown-ups-by-marian-keyes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/14205\/","title":{"rendered":"Aisling Bea, Sarah Greene and Robert Sheehan to star in Netflix adaptation of Grown Ups by Marian Keyes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/netflix\/\">Netflix<\/a> has revealed the cast for Grown Ups, the upcoming adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/grown-ups-the-familiar-magic-of-marian-keyes-1.4146709#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWorthy%20Nell%E2%80%9D%2C%20an%20eco,is%20that%20she%20gets%20people.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/grown-ups-the-familiar-magic-of-marian-keyes-1.4146709#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWorthy%20Nell%E2%80%9D%2C%20an%20eco,is%20that%20she%20gets%20people.\">the popular Marian Keyes book<\/a>, which will star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/aisling-bea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/aisling-bea\/\">Aisling Bea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sarah-greene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sarah-greene\/\">Sarah Greene<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/robert-sheehan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/robert-sheehan\/\">Robert Sheehan<\/a> and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The eight-part drama, which has started filming in and around Dublin, will follow the Casey clan, a noisy tight-knit Irish family. As the Caseys navigate the sudden death of \u201cthe good son\u201d, they\u2019ll be forced to face not only grief, \u201cbut the exhausting, relentless, and often ridiculous struggle of being an adult\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Bea, Greene and Sheehan will be joined by Greene\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/2024\/11\/13\/bad-sisters-review-sharon-horgan-serves-up-another-course-of-zinging-dark-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/2024\/11\/13\/bad-sisters-review-sharon-horgan-serves-up-another-course-of-zinging-dark-comedy\/\">Bad Sisters<\/a> costar Barry Ward, as well as Amy-Leigh Hickman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/adrian-dunbar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/adrian-dunbar\/\">Adrian Dunbar<\/a>, Sin\u00e9ad Cusack and Karin Hanczewski. James Agnew, a recent graduate of Lir Acadamy, and Katelyn Rose Downey, who featured in Clean Sweep and Blade Runner 2099, also join the cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cBeing part of this, seeing it all come together has been so exciting and so much fun,\u201d Keyes said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019m honoured by the hard work and commitment of everyone involved, I\u2019m beyond grateful for all the care that\u2019s been taken with my characters and most of all, I\u2019m enormously proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Grown Ups announcement comes ahead of the release of The Walsh Sisters on RT\u00c9, a new series based on Keyes\u2019 bestselling novels Rachel\u2019s Holiday and Anybody Out There. That series will air on RT\u00c9 One on September 28th at 9.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A release date for Grown Ups is yet to be announced, but with filming already under way, fans won\u2019t be waiting too long. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix has revealed the cast for Grown Ups, the upcoming adaptation of the popular Marian Keyes book, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13695,13655,93,61,60,13693,1868,13656,13694],"class_list":{"0":"post-14205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-adrian-dunbar","9":"tag-aisling-bea","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-marian-keyes","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-robert-sheehan","16":"tag-sarah-greene"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}