How a Civil Servant’s ‘Chance’ Pitch Landed Julia Roberts for His TV Adaptation
He is a civil servant turned novelist who decided to “chance his arm” with one of Hollywood’s most celebrated stars. As the adage goes, “if you don’t ask, you don’t get”—a strategy that paid off spectacularly for Rónán Hession when Julia Roberts agreed to narrate the BBC Northern Ireland adaptation of his bestselling novel, Leonard and […]











