Paul Mescal: everything you didn’t think you wanted to know about Oscar-nominated actor Kildare
Paul Mescal’s Oscar nomination for his role in Aftersun is a far cry from the Kildare man’s debut in a Denny hot dog commercial just five years ago.
The 26-year-old is currently considered the wild card in the 2023 Oscar race for Best Actor.
Here’s everything you didn’t think you needed to know about everyone’s favorite underpants O’Neill.
Not so normal
The humble newcomer, from Maynooth, graduated from Dublin’s Lár Academy class in 2017 and is now best known for his role in Normal person, sundown and lost daughter.
He is the eldest of three children. His parents Dearbhla and Paul are a gardener and a teacher. Paul Sr also took action.
However, one of Paul’s first television roles was in a now-popular commercial for Denny’s sausage in 2018.
After two years of starring in stage roles in Dublin, he was cast alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones as Connell in Lenny Abrahamson’s 2020 TV adaptation of Normal person, the delicate romance of Sally Rooney. The light-hearted romantic drama was a huge success during the lockdown.
In Maggie Gyllenhaal lost daughter he plays a beach bar employee who idly flirts with Olivia Colman’s vacationing student.
athletic ability
Similar to my character in Normal personMescal was a GAA star in his normal life, Playing Gaelic Football in his teens for Kildare, he represented the county at the U21 and minor level before pursuing an acting career.
Speaking previously, Mescal said: “I grew up very attached to sports; GAA, that was a major focus for me throughout my teens, twenties, and early 20s.”
Mescal was involved with the Kildare GAA’s underage teams throughout his boyhood, playing in the second half of Kildare and commanding Kildare throughout that mini-campaign.
He’s known for wearing his GAA shorts when going out, making the casual outfit a fashion icon.
personal struggle
However, things did not go well for the actor, who was candid about his anxiety, describing it as a “cursed feeling”, “once you feel like it’s going away.” lost it will come back and hit you like a ton of bricks. “.
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stage star
He has performed in plays such as The great Gatsby, Ask for it and Inishmore’s lieutenant (written by Inisherin’s Banshees writer Martin McDonagh), in theaters in Dublin. It’s fitting, Mescal confronts banshees Colin Farrell won the Oscar for Best Actor.
Siblings
He’s not the only famous Mescal: recently his sister Nell Mescal has entered the music industry, named in dork magazine’s 2023 hype list as artists worth watching. He also has a younger brother Donnacha.
Nell (19 years old) dropped out of school in October 2021, to start her music career full time. She currently has nearly 32,000 monthly listeners on Spotify with singles released Missing You, graduate and Homesick.
Paul also sings occasionally and he has duet with Nell on a song she posted on her Instagram – a cover of the Villagers’ Nothing comes.
She makes her professional singing debut in 2021, opening for Phoebe Bridgers, who was once romantically involved with her brother Paul.
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Paul Mescal with Phoebe Bridgers
Romantic
A big hit with fans is the romance between Mescal and Bridgers, which began in 2020 through a Twitter exchange between the pair.
The couple were first reported to be dating in 2020 and over a year later they finally made it public, before appearing on the red carpet and official Instagram page, spending Christmas with their family in Kildare and vacation in Ireland.
However, last month, the couple was entangled in breakup rumors that left Irish fans devastated.
Singer Phoebe was spotted with comedian Bo Burnham.
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