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Paul Mescal was hard at work on Gladiator 2<\/em> when SAG-AFTRA called their strike, so the production is on hiatus for now. That\u2019s my way of saying that Mescal\u2019s Bazaar cover and interview was done pre-strike, because there are references in the piece to Mescal currently filming. Mescal was Oscar-nominated this year for Aftersun, a tiny little art film which felt like someone\u2019s MFA project. He\u2019s so in-demand right now though, and pre-strike, he was booked and busy on stage and for back-to-back film roles. I guess this piece was supposed to be promotion for Foe, where he stars alongside Saoirse Ronan. Some highlights from Bazaar:<\/p>\n He loves short-shorts: <\/strong> \u201cThis is thrilling to me. I love it. Where\u2019s my favorite pair?\u201d he asks, nearly knocking over his chair to find them. \u201cI don\u2019t know how I would go about my summer if I didn\u2019t have these. I don\u2019t do well in the heat,\u201d he says, holding up a black pair with three white stripes down each side. They\u2019re O\u2019Neills, an Irish brand of Gaelic football shorts, he tells me. \u2018[O\u2019Neills] are going to get great f-ckin\u2019 airtime out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n On the interest in his love life:<\/strong> \u201cIf I\u2019m going to make TV shows like Normal People, there\u2019s going to be an appetite from the world. Eighty percent of that is palatable. And then 20 percent of it is devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n The gossip-reporting about his breakup with Phoebe Bridgers:<\/strong> \u201cThe stuff that hurts is the personal stuff. It\u2019s nobody else\u2019s business and should never be commented on because it\u2019s indecent. And it\u2019s unkind. Honest answer, it makes me angry.\u200a\u2026\u200aIt\u2019s the entitlement to the information that people expect that just drives me f–king mad.\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019s not online & he\u2019s not hustling side-gigs:<\/strong> He seems wary of its artifice. He hasn\u2019t tweeted since 2020 and has no other public-facing social-media accounts, no liquor line to shill, no \u201cbrand\u201d he\u2019s intent on building. After attending drama school at the Lir Academy in Dublin, he worked in theater for two years, partly because he found auditioning for on-screen roles to be \u201cmortifying. I didn\u2019t buy into what I was having to say. I remember auditioning for some TV show. It was like a two-line self-audition. I was going in for some f–ing ridiculous dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n He loves being in love: <\/strong>\u201cThe feeling of being in a relationship and being in love, to me, sometimes can feel quite like a horse with blinders on. That\u2019s such a wonderful feeling. The work in this film was finding out what it\u2019s like to be in a tired relationship. That\u2019s not a sensation I\u2019m familiar with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [From Harper\u2019s Bazaar]<\/p>\n\n
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