Paul Mescal

Like his Normal People (2020) character Connell Waldron, he attended Trinity College Dublin.

[filming sex scenes] The idea of shooting those scenes may be far more anxious than the actual shooting process from day to day. There's an awkward 10 minutes when you're like, okay, I have to be relatively naked in front of a group of strangers... from an actor's perspective you've got to treat that the same way you would a scene where you're speaking to each other.