After shooting to instant fame thanks to ‘Normal People,’ the Irish actor reflects on the “insane” past two years, upcoming titles such as ‘God’s Creatures’ and ‘Aftersun,’ preferring scripts that make him “weep,” and his growing indie credentials and ambitions: “If I can just make independent films, I’ll be a very, very happy man.”
Writer-director Charlotte Wells is watching audiences take many different paths to the same conclusion of her extraordinary film: “It feels in some strange way I’ve created a choose your own adventure.”
The actor talks about his moving new A24 film, the possibility of more Normal People, and his affinity for short shorts.
The actor, who became a sudden sex symbol with Hulu’s “Normal People,” stars as another psychologically complex character in the A24 feature “Aftersun.”
Paul Mescal talks singing & dancing in ‘Carmen’, ‘Strangers’ & playing Saoirse Ronan’s husband in ‘Foe’.
Just two dizzying years after bringing the nation to a standstill in lockdown lodestone Normal People, Paul Mescal has become an indie film star everyone wants to work with. How did it happen? He talks to Aaron Hicklin.
Two years on from his TV breakout with Normal People, Paul Mescal is making the leap into movie stardom with quiet, emotionally obliterating indie Aftersun, and relearning how to exist in the public eye.
Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio and director Charlotte Wells tell us about making the most heartbreaking movie of the year.
The stars of one of the year’s most acclaimed films, Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, tell us about playing father and daughter on a troubled holiday in Turkey.
Acting ‘crept up on’ him, then Normal People came along, and his career has been on a roll ever since.
For the latest Awardist podcast, the Normal People star spoke to EW about the power of a quiet script, the accent he tried hardest to avoid, and the rush of being in a Cannes sensation.
