dy obsessed enough as it is with Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott’s chemistry, Mescal has gone and somehow made us even more excited about the upcoming All of Us Strangers film the two star in together.
He sat down with fellow icon Natalie Portman for a chat with Variety. about their prospective careers. When Portman said his character in All of Us Strangers was “like a dream man” and asked him how he brought the character to life, Mescal replied, “To play love is such a great privilege, I think. And to do it with Andrew Scott, who’s the king of playing love. It’s just innate in his being both as an actor and as a human. Going into scenes with him is one of the greatest honors of my career to date.”
The conversation spiced up from there as the two discussed Mescal and Scott’s wild amount of on-screen sex appeal together. Portman commented on the “hot but also very tender” scenes in the film, which Mescal said were all he could talk about.
“Films like this are an indication of a distance that we’ve traveled, but ultimately there’s quite a ways to go,” he said. “All I can talk about is my experience with filming those scenes. Andrew Scott’s character, Adam, who is in his mid-40s, has a difficult relationship to s*x. My character serves as a safe landing space for him to re-explore his sexuality. I think s*x in film, when it can be healing and sexy at the same time, that’s when it’s at its best.”
He also said he was lucky that he’d never been in a s*x scene in a film where he wondered what the purpose of it was.
