The 25-year-old actor first broke out in the Hulu/BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, which was streamed more than 62 million times in the U.K. alone.
“To see the final figure [of Normal People‘s reach] was quite amazing,” Mescal says. “[As was] working hard with people that you adore, achieving the things you dreamed up in your head.”
Mescal’s work on Normal People — and, let’s be honest, those sex scenes — can still be streamed for your viewing pleasure, but he’s currently filming the starring role in Benjamin Millepied’s reimagining of the French opera Carmen.