As for Edgar Jones, she thinks Marianne “will ace the rest of her degree, but I don’t think she will strive for a job.”
“I think she won’t really have much of an income,” continues Edgar-Jones. “I think she’ll just be an academic and find a way of surviving by just reading. Connell will probably have a lot of success, but yeah, I agree. I hope they find their way back to each other in some capacity, but I also think that they’ve done such an amazing job of giving each other goodness, which I hope that means they’ll ultimately be happy, whatever happens.”
Guiney points out that, whatever may happen next for Marianne and Connell, “as they say to each other, they’ll be alright,” adding that the story is about the positive impact these two characters have had on one another more than any specific outcome or relationship status. But of course he has his thoughts on what happens next…
“I mean, what I personally think is they will part for a while, but they’ll find each other again,” says Guiney. “That’s just my instinct, because I think when two people have such a close connection, it’s sort of very hard to imagine that they’d find anything as special elsewhere. So even though they might experiment and try, I think they’ll find each other again.”
“Yeah, I would agree with Ed,” says Abrahamson. “I don’t think this would be the last chapter of their relationship. I mean, who knows what happens in lives? But yeah, I can’t imagine them being able to stay away from each other for very long.”