From Normal People to stardom: who is Paul Mescal?
The nominees for the 95th Academy Awards, which will be held this year, have been announced. Paul Mescal was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for his movie "Aftersun".
Written and directed by Charlotte Wells, "Aftersun" was shot last year in Fethiye Ölüdeniz, one of Turkey's holiday paradises.
It turned out that Paul Mescal, who starred in the movie with Frankie Corio and Celia Rowlson-Hall, took a short vacation in Istanbul after shooting in Fethiye.
In an interview he gave before, Paul Mescal said that no one knew him in Fethiye Ölüdeniz, where the shooting took place:
"I don't know, maybe there weren't any 'Normal People' fans out there. We stayed only two days in Istanbul, it was very quiet. No one came to us.”
Short life story
Actor, born in 1996 in Ireland. He completed his education in performing arts at the Lir Academy. After graduating, he started his professional career with the movie "Great Gatsby" in 2017. He is known for “Normal People (2020)”, “The Graham Norton Show (2020)” and “Bump (2019)”. Apart from acting, it is related to football.
Normal People
When Normal People appeared on the screens at the beginning of 2020, who would have thought that the two leading actors would shine so brightly… Paul Mescal was starring in the series, which was brought to the screen from Sally Rooney's wonderful novel.
We know from the interviews he gave to various media that Paul Mescal is incredibly shy. He also hates social media and thinks it's an environment he can never get used to. He doesn't like to hang around with celebrities to the same extent. So, considering the attention Normal People received, it's actually a turning point and a great first step for the actor in every sense. Expressing his gratitude to Sally Rooney's path - definitely, a great chance - at every opportunity, Mescal is well aware of what the role has brought him for his acting career.
Mescal comes from a working-class family: his mother is a police officer and his father is a teacher and also a part-time actor. The factor that causes the actor to hesitate so much at the beginning is how much a person can struggle financially in this career. It is worth noting that while the artist is so focused on his cinema and television career, he continues to do the performing arts. Considering Mescal's later works, it is very possible to think that it was a state of clinging to a certain typing. Let's focus a little bit on Aftersun, a debut movie directed by Charlotte Wells, for example. Paul Mescal plays the character of a young and poor father, Calum. The character is not a typical father, not a father-daughter relationship at all. Calum wants to share his feelings and love. But it's not enough for that. He has resentment, but he does not want to interrupt that very short moment of happiness. The knack of the director and that amazing team in presenting such a minimal story in such a layered way is amazing. Mescal masterfully demonstrates the subtle aspects between the public and the private in this story in which a father character enters. Lost Daughter (2021), directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal; The mini-series The Deceived (2020), created by Tobias Beer and Lisa McGee, and God's Creatures (2022), directed by Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, features Paul Mescal before Aftersun. Among them, especially the character he plays in God's Creatures is the opposite of all these. Connell, Calum, Sean, and even Will is cute and easy to empathize with, while Brian is a character who is accused of rape and returns to the scene. It is a role where it is very difficult to get into that head and take on that role after these experiences.
January 7, 2023
Paul Mescal will play the lead role in the sequel to Ridley Scott's "Gladiator."
Director Ridley Scott returns to the "Gladiator" universe after 22 years. In the sequel, where the search for actors began, actor Paul Mescal, known for his productions "Normal People" and "Aftersun", will take the lead role.
In the production, Mescal will play Lucius, Lucilla's son, played by Connie Nielsen in the first movie. The sequel will begin years after the end of the first movie and will tell the story of Lucius living in his adulthood.
It has been talked about for a while who will be cast in the sequel of the film, which brought Russell Crowe the Best Actor Oscar. Other names that Mescal competed for the role of Lucius included Richard Madden, Timothée Chalamet, Miles Teller, and Austin Butler.