Aidan Turner to star in adaptation of one of her novels Aidan Turner, Katherine Parkinson, Emily Atack, David Tennant, Jilly Cooper, Danny Dyer, Alex Hassell, Nafessa Williams, Bella Maclean, Claire Rushbrook and Victoria Smurfit attending the UK special screening of the new Disney+ drama Rivals in London. Photo: Getty Young people today are running more than they are having sex, romance novelist Jilly Cooper has claimed. The 87-year-old said that instead of having fun together it appears everyone is “jogging miles and miles and miles”.
An adaptation of Cooper’s hit 1988 book Rivals is to premiere on Disney+ and stars David Tennant and Aidan Turner, in the hopes that it introduces a new generation of readers to her work. When asked how she felt about the new adaption, Cooper, whose books have sold more than 11 million copies in the UK and Ireland alone, said: “I’m thrilled. It’s got this fantastic cast of gorgeous men, and fantastically pretty girls.
.. lots of desirability in it now.
It’s very sexy, but it’s very well-acted too.” In an interview published in the Observer magazine, Cooper was then asked by the actor David Tennant what she believed was the most “powerful pull on human nature”. She replied: “If you’re passionately in love, it would be sex, wouldn’t it? It really would.
But I think sex less now. “People are all going jogging aren’t they? Running. “Everybody runs miles and miles and miles and I don’t think there is so much sex n.