Saturday, October 22, 2022

Dakota Johnson interviews Paul Mescal for "INTERVIEW MAGAZINE"


Who among us could resist the chokehold of Connell’s chain? The appetite for actor Paul Mescal tipped from Irish boy-next-door to topshelf lust object when he played emotional wrecking ball and famous necklace wearer Connell Waldron in the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People. Mescal’s intimately coordinated purĂŠe of sexy, smart, and a bit sad left hearts throbbing, as did his lust-manufacturing penchant for the shortest of short shorts. Rather than don a cape and fall down the tired rabbit hole of the Marvel matinee idol, Mescal is sharpening his indie-favorite talons with strategically un–pretty-boy roles—as an American veteran in Benjamin Millepied’s retelling of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, a troubled son in the A24 drama God’s Creatures, and a weekend dad in Charlotte Wells’s balmy debut Aftersun. As busy (and erotically potent) as he may be, Mescal still found time to chat up his former castmate Dakota Johnson, who, like the rest of us, cannot resist his charms. —RAVEN SMITH

PAUL MESCAL: What’s going on?

DAKOTA JOHNSON: Oh my god. Is it recording already?

MESCAL: They don’t fuck around.

JOHNSON: Look at your little face.