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Irish Daily Star
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Star
'I worked on Netflix's biggest show and had to cut emotional scenes fans will never see'
The creative mind behind Netflix's heartfelt series One Day, Nicole Taylor, has dished on the scenes that didn't survive the editing room. Chatting exclusively with Reach, the scriptwriter Nicole Taylor spilled the beans on major moments axed from the final show: "In the book there are two years where Emma is in exactly the same place – working in the Mexican restaurant. "I love that – it illustrates that her life is at a standstill, but somehow it just didn't work to set two episodes in the same place. The repetition was just – repetitious!". "We also cut Dex going to India. We cut a ton more than that – it's always a critical part of the process - and there's nothing we cut that I miss." Taylor shared more behind-the-scenes details from the Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod starrer, admitting she took on the adaptation with "great trepidation", reports the Mirror US . Netflix's One Day struck a chord with audiences 15 years after the book was first published (Image: NETFLIX) One Day, which is a screen version of David Nicholls' 2009 hit novel, was previously brought to life in a 2011 big-screen rendition featuring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, both the book and film garnering dedicated fans. As an ardent admirer of the original novel, Taylor expressed feeling a "huge responsibility and privilege" in bringing the story to television audiences. She aimed to encapsulate what made the story so special to her and countless others, stating, "I wanted to capture why it had meant everything to me and to so many other people," she said. Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall star in Netflix's One Day (Image: NETFLIX) Reflecting on the scenes she found most challenging to write, Taylor confessed that it was indeed the finale moments. While she didn't share which scenes were tough, episode 14 of the series delivered some gut-wrenching moments for viewers, including Dexter (Woodall) in deep mourning speaking to his late wife Emma Morley (Mod)'s ghost – a scene that had audiences globally reaching for tissues. The initial meeting between Emma and Dex post-graduation in the opening sequence of One Day was another section that proved difficult for Taylor to put down on paper. "It was all quite tricky! Trickier than I expected – ha. With material that brilliant, one might have hoped it was a cut and paste job but alas no!" confessed Taylor about the task. One Day is a hit with a 92 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and applause from critics. Netflix viewers were left emotional by Netflix's adaptation of One Day (Image: NETFLIX) Taylor has found herself competing for a BAFTA Craft Award in Writer Drama. Her competition includes Mickey Down and Konrad Kay with HBO and BBC's Industry, Gwyneth Hughes of ITV's Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, and Richard Gadd for Baby Reindeer, with the outcome to be revealed at the upcoming BAFTA Craft Awards ceremony on April 27. Wondering why her adaptations have struck such a chord years after the novel's first release? Taylor proposes: "I think most people have an 'Emma' or a 'Dex' or identify with one or other of the characters. "I also think that stories that are set in the near past like this are particularly appealing right now because there's no internet or smart phones in them and it's quite strange and lovely and nostalgic to remember our analogue world and how different it was and how different we were in it. It's all not long ago but it feels like a vanished world." The BAFTA TV Craft Awards are on Sunday, April 27 One Day is streaming on Netflix now
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
First rain and then fire chase people from their homes in North and South Carolina
When Nicole Taylor and her family moved to their new home in the South Carolina mountains six months ago, the gorgeous view of Table Rock Mountain was the clincher. She ended up with a porch-side seat to one of at least a half dozen wildfires in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Carolinas, fed by dry conditions and millions of trees that were knocked down by Hurricane Helene in 2024 and began decaying into tinderbox fuel. Taylor watched this past weekend as smoke started to rise from the ridges across Highway 11 in Pickens County. The smoke got worse Monday, and it was pouring off the mountain Tuesday when she got a text saying she was under a mandatory evacuation. So far no one has been hurt in the fires, which have burned more than 20 square miles (52 square kilometers) in mostly rugged, remote forests and the popular state park that includes Table Rock Mountain. Only a few dozen structures have been damaged. But the firefighting is slow work. Sources of water to extinguish the flames are scarce, so crews depend on building fire breaks to try to stop them in their tracks, using bulldozers, excavators and even shovels and saws to strip the land of fuel. It then becomes a waiting game, making sure embers don't jump the break and hoping for the winds to die down or — the best relief of all — a long, soaking rain. The long wait Hurricane Helene slammed through Pickens County the Friday after Taylor moved into her dream home last September. The hurricane-force winds traveled hundreds of miles inland, smashing entire forests and destroying the electrical grid. There was more than a week of what she called 'prairie life." 'We we're like, OK, if we can make it through that, we can make it through anything. Unfortunately fire is one thing we can't fight.' This week Taylor decamped to wait the fire out in a hotel room in Greenville with her fiance, two children and their dogs. So far the fire has remained across the highway, but it is still too close for them to be able to go home. 'It's been an actual whirlwind,' Taylor said of the last several days. Rain and then fire Six months ago Eric Young packed up his cats and left his home in Transylvania County, North Carolina, after floods and winds from Helene knocked out power, water and cell service. On Wednesday the fires in nearby South Carolina forced them all out again. A retired environmental educator who moved there from Long Island a few years ago, he lost his car and a heater when his driveway and crawl space were inundated in September. Now he is at a friend's home in Charlotte, trying to keep a sense of humor about the absurdity of floodwaters followed so soon by flames. 'I thought it was nirvana here — never get anything but severe thunderstorms, the weather is temperate, very nice,' he said. 'I didn't know I'd be gut-punched twice in six months.' Fighting the blaze Forestry officials were worried after all those trees came down during Helene. It's not just the fuel they create, they also hinder firefighters' movement. 'It is nearly impossible to get through this stuff. We've got about five bulldozers, an excavator and saw crews to open this up and clean this,' Toby Cox, the firefighter in charge of the Table Rock fire, said about a fire break in a video briefing Thursday morning. Extinguishing wildfires in the Carolinas takes time. A fire near Myrtle Beach that threatened dozens of homes and burned 2.5 square miles (6.5 square kilometers) in early March has been out of the news for nearly four weeks, but it is still just 80% contained and sends smoke billowing over neighborhoods when the wind shifts. Conditions that favor fire outbreaks Wildfires are unusual in the Carolinas, but not unheard of. The Great Fire of 1898 burned some 4,700 square miles (12,175 square kilometers) in the two states, an area roughly the size of Connecticut, said David Easterling, the director of the Technical Support Unit at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Spring is typically when blazes happen, according to Kathie Dello, North Carolina's state climatologist. This season the Blue Ridge Mountains are dry, having received only about two-thirds of the normal amount of rainfall in the last six months since Hurricane Helene. March has been full of sunny, dry, windy days. Meanwhile the risk to people and property has increased over the years thanks to a boom in popularity of the mountains as a place to live. 'North Carolina has a lot of homes in the wildland urban interface, or more people living with a higher fire risk,' Dello said. Any trees downed by Helene that do not burn this year will still be around for future fire seasons. 'All that storm debris will be there for years to come, increasing the fire danger considerably,' Easterling said. The latest fire updates The two large fires in South Carolina continued to burn Thursday. The Table Rock fire has consumed 7.1 square miles (18.4 square kilometers), and the one on Persimmon Ridge in Greenville County has burned 2.4 square miles (6.2 square kilometers). The fires are about 8 miles (13 kilometers) apart, and emergency officials have asked almost everyone living between them to leave as a precaution. The evacuation zone extended into nearby Transylvania County, North Carolina. In North Carolina at least eight fires were burning in the mountains. The largest — the Black Cove Fire and the Deep Woods Fire in Polk County — were each more than 10% contained. The fires have scorched nearly 10 square miles (26 square kilometers) combined but have not grown for more than a day.
The Independent
27-03-2025
- Climate
- The Independent
First rain and then fire chase people from their homes in North and South Carolina
When Nicole Taylor and her family moved to their new home in the South Carolina mountains six months ago, the gorgeous view of Table Rock Mountain was the clincher. She ended up with a porch-side seat to one of at least a half dozen wildfires in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Carolinas, fed by dry conditions and millions of trees that were knocked down by Hurricane Helene in 2024 and began decaying into tinderbox fuel. Taylor watched this past weekend as smoke started to rise from the ridges across Highway 11 in Pickens County. The smoke got worse Monday, and it was pouring off the mountain Tuesday when she got a text saying she was under a mandatory evacuation. So far no one has been hurt in the fires, which have burned more than 20 square miles (52 square kilometers) in mostly rugged, remote forests and the popular state park that includes Table Rock Mountain. Only a few dozen structures have been damaged. But the firefighting is slow work. Sources of water to extinguish the flames are scarce, so crews depend on building fire breaks to try to stop them in their tracks, using bulldozers, excavators and even shovels and saws to strip the land of fuel. It then becomes a waiting game, making sure embers don't jump the break and hoping for the winds to die down or — the best relief of all — a long, soaking rain. The long wait Hurricane Helene slammed through Pickens County the Friday after Taylor moved into her dream home last September. The hurricane-force winds traveled hundreds of miles inland, smashing entire forests and destroying the electrical grid. There was more than a week of what she called 'prairie life." 'We we're like, OK, if we can make it through that, we can make it through anything. Unfortunately fire is one thing we can't fight.' This week Taylor decamped to wait the fire out in a hotel room in Greenville with her fiance, two children and their dogs. So far the fire has remained across the highway, but it is still too close for them to be able to go home. 'It's been an actual whirlwind,' Taylor said of the last several days. Rain and then fire Six months ago Eric Young packed up his cats and left his home in Transylvania County, North Carolina, after floods and winds from Helene knocked out power, water and cell service. On Wednesday the fires in nearby South Carolina forced them all out again. A retired environmental educator who moved there from Long Island a few years ago, he lost his car and a heater when his driveway and crawl space were inundated in September. Now he is at a friend's home in Charlotte, trying to keep a sense of humor about the absurdity of floodwaters followed so soon by flames. 'I thought it was nirvana here — never get anything but severe thunderstorms, the weather is temperate, very nice,' he said. 'I didn't know I'd be gut-punched twice in six months.' Fighting the blaze Forestry officials were worried after all those trees came down during Helene. It's not just the fuel they create, they also hinder firefighters' movement. 'It is nearly impossible to get through this stuff. We've got about five bulldozers, an excavator and saw crews to open this up and clean this,' Toby Cox, the firefighter in charge of the Table Rock fire, said about a fire break in a video briefing Thursday morning. Extinguishing wildfires in the Carolinas takes time. A fire near Myrtle Beach that threatened dozens of homes and burned 2.5 square miles (6.5 square kilometers) in early March has been out of the news for nearly four weeks, but it is still just 80% contained and sends smoke billowing over neighborhoods when the wind shifts. Conditions that favor fire outbreaks Wildfires are unusual in the Carolinas, but not unheard of. The Great Fire of 1898 burned some 4,700 square miles (12,175 square kilometers) in the two states, an area roughly the size of Connecticut, said David Easterling, the director of the Technical Support Unit at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Spring is typically when blazes happen, according to Kathie Dello, North Carolina's state climatologist. This season the Blue Ridge Mountains are dry, having received only about two-thirds of the normal amount of rainfall in the last six months since Hurricane Helene. March has been full of sunny, dry, windy days. Meanwhile the risk to people and property has increased over the years thanks to a boom in popularity of the mountains as a place to live. 'North Carolina has a lot of homes in the wildland urban interface, or more people living with a higher fire risk,' Dello said. Any trees downed by Helene that do not burn this year will still be around for future fire seasons. 'All that storm debris will be there for years to come, increasing the fire danger considerably,' Easterling said. The latest fire updates The two large fires in South Carolina continued to burn Thursday. The Table Rock fire has consumed 7.1 square miles (18.4 square kilometers), and the one on Persimmon Ridge in Greenville County has burned 2.4 square miles (6.2 square kilometers). The fires are about 8 miles (13 kilometers) apart, and emergency officials have asked almost everyone living between them to leave as a precaution. The evacuation zone extended into nearby Transylvania County, North Carolina. In North Carolina at least eight fires were burning in the mountains. The largest — the Black Cove Fire and the Deep Woods Fire in Polk County — were each more than 10% contained. The fires have scorched nearly 10 square miles (26 square kilometers) combined but have not grown for more than a day.
Associated Press
27-03-2025
- Climate
- Associated Press
First rain and then fire chase people from their homes in North and South Carolina
When Nicole Taylor and her family moved to their new home in the South Carolina mountains six months ago, the gorgeous view of Table Rock Mountain was the clincher. She ended up with a porch-side seat to one of at least a half dozen wildfires in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Carolinas, fed by dry conditions and millions of trees that were knocked down by Hurricane Helene in 2024 and began decaying into tinderbox fuel. Taylor watched this past weekend as smoke started to rise from the ridges across Highway 11 in Pickens County. The smoke got worse Monday, and it was pouring off the mountain Tuesday when she got a text saying she was under a mandatory evacuation. So far no one has been hurt in the fires, which have burned more than 20 square miles (52 square kilometers) in mostly rugged, remote forests and the popular state park that includes Table Rock Mountain. Only a few dozen structures have been damaged. But the firefighting is slow work. Sources of water to extinguish the flames are scarce, so crews depend on building fire breaks to try to stop them in their tracks, using bulldozers, excavators and even shovels and saws to strip the land of fuel. It then becomes a waiting game, making sure embers don't jump the break and hoping for the winds to die down or — the best relief of all — a long, soaking rain. The long wait Hurricane Helene slammed through Pickens County the Friday after Taylor moved into her dream home last September. The hurricane-force winds traveled hundreds of miles inland, smashing entire forests and destroying the electrical grid. There was more than a week of what she called 'prairie life.' 'We we're like, OK, if we can make it through that, we can make it through anything. Unfortunately fire is one thing we can't fight.' This week Taylor decamped to wait the fire out in a hotel room in Greenville with her fiance, two children and their dogs. So far the fire has remained across the highway, but it is still too close for them to be able to go home. 'It's been an actual whirlwind,' Taylor said of the last several days. Rain and then fire Six months ago Eric Young packed up his cats and left his home in Transylvania County, North Carolina, after floods and winds from Helene knocked out power, water and cell service. On Wednesday the fires in nearby South Carolina forced them all out again. A retired environmental educator who moved there from Long Island a few years ago, he lost his car and a heater when his driveway and crawl space were inundated in September. Now he is at a friend's home in Charlotte, trying to keep a sense of humor about the absurdity of floodwaters followed so soon by flames. 'I thought it was nirvana here — never get anything but severe thunderstorms, the weather is temperate, very nice,' he said. 'I didn't know I'd be gut-punched twice in six months.' Fighting the blaze Forestry officials were worried after all those trees came down during Helene. It's not just the fuel they create, they also hinder firefighters' movement. 'It is nearly impossible to get through this stuff. We've got about five bulldozers, an excavator and saw crews to open this up and clean this,' Toby Cox, the firefighter in charge of the Table Rock fire, said about a fire break in a video briefing Thursday morning. Extinguishing wildfires in the Carolinas takes time. A fire near Myrtle Beach that threatened dozens of homes and burned 2.5 square miles (6.5 square kilometers) in early March has been out of the news for nearly four weeks, but it is still just 80% contained and sends smoke billowing over neighborhoods when the wind shifts. Conditions that favor fire outbreaks Wildfires are unusual in the Carolinas, but not unheard of. The Great Fire of 1898 burned some 4,700 square miles (12,175 square kilometers) in the two states, an area roughly the size of Connecticut, said David Easterling, the director of the Technical Support Unit at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Spring is typically when blazes happen, according to Kathie Dello, North Carolina's state climatologist. This season the Blue Ridge Mountains are dry, having received only about two-thirds of the normal amount of rainfall in the last six months since Hurricane Helene. March has been full of sunny, dry, windy days. Meanwhile the risk to people and property has increased over the years thanks to a boom in popularity of the mountains as a place to live. 'North Carolina has a lot of homes in the wildland urban interface, or more people living with a higher fire risk,' Dello said. Any trees downed by Helene that do not burn this year will still be around for future fire seasons. 'All that storm debris will be there for years to come, increasing the fire danger considerably,' Easterling said. The latest fire updates The two large fires in South Carolina continued to burn Thursday. The Table Rock fire has consumed 7.1 square miles (18.4 square kilometers), and the one on Persimmon Ridge in Greenville County has burned 2.4 square miles (6.2 square kilometers). The fires are about 8 miles (13 kilometers) apart, and emergency officials have asked almost everyone living between them to leave as a precaution. The evacuation zone extended into nearby Transylvania County, North Carolina. In North Carolina at least eight fires were burning in the mountains. The largest — the Black Cove Fire and the Deep Woods Fire in Polk County — were each more than 10% contained. The fires have scorched nearly 10 square miles (26 square kilometers) combined but have not grown for more than a day.
