Cork author 'can't wait' for people to see TV series based on crime novel 56 Days
Catherine Ryan Howard has said that actor-singer Dove Cameron is “fantastic” as the character Ciara in the adaptation of her novel 56 Days. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan.
Cork author Catherine Ryan Howard has said she "can't wait" for people to see Amazon Studios' upcoming TV adaptation of her crime novel 56 Days.
While the project doesn’t have a release date yet, Ryan Howard said on Instagram that she “can’t wait for everyone to see 56 Days”.
The author praised actor and singer Dove Cameron for her role in the upcoming TV series, describing her as “fantastic” at playing the character Ciara in the adaptation of her novel of the same name.
Her comments come following Cameron’s recent interview with in which she spoke about her return to music and our screens.
Speaking about her role in the upcoming Amazon release, Cameron told that she was terrified but excited to take on the role.
“[Any acting project] has to have a challenge, and it sent me into a little bit of an anxiety crash because there’s nudity involved. I had always known that was something I wanted to tackle,” she said.
“If there’s anything I feel like I can’t do, then I feel like I have to do it in order to get to the next level of my own evolution. I was excited to prove myself wrong…. I basically just went into it blindly, super terrified, but knowing that it was the right thing to do, and very excited.”
She explained that she takes on very few acting projects as of late because it takes so long to complete an album but that this role was “very different and special” to her and that Ciara was "a dream character to play".
The psychological thriller, which Ryan Howard wrote during lockdown in 2020, tells the story of an intense romance between two young professionals who start dating the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores.
When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, the couple decide to move in together... but 56 days after that first meeting, gardaí arrive at Oliver's apartment to discover a decomposing body inside.
Ryan Howard previously told the that it was “exciting and surreal” to have her novel adapted for a TV series.
"It’s very hard to believe that the novel I thought was going to be my biggest career mistake has led me here. It’s all very exciting and surreal and my guilt at having had quite a good 2020, actually, is obviously worse than ever,” she said.
Her novel was named An Post's Crime Fiction Book of the Year in 2021 and received a Book of the Year accolade from the that same year.
