Paul Mescal on his latest film, Irish talent and an incredible list of new projects
Paul Mescal at the recent Academy Awards in Hollywood. (Picture: Frederic J Brown / AFP)
Over the last three years, the course of Paul Mescal’s life has changed in most extraordinary ways. Already a successful young theatre actor, the Maynooth man might have hoped that a lead role in a new TV series might help him make the leap from stage to screen. That series was Normal People, the global sensation that propelled Mescal from promising young actor to international star.
In just three short years, Mescal has seen his career - and the attention that has come with it - soar. And it feels like he’s just getting started - Ridley Scott has just cast him as the lead in his hotly anticipated sequel to Gladiator. Raves have been landing for his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire on London’s West End. Then there was the Oscar nomination for his role in the deeply moving Aftersun, all coming his way just as he reached his 27th birthday last month.
