The Aftersun star earned his first Academy Award nomination last month
Paul Mescal has said his Academy Award nomination for his performance in Aftersun was a “very welcome respite” amid his mum’s battle with cancer. The Normal People star, 27, earned his first Oscar nod for portraying troubled young father Calum in Charlotte Wells’ coming-of-age drama.
In his first interview since the nominations, Mescal told Martha Kearney on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think it’s all a bit overwhelming, especially for my family, I don’t think anybody or even I was expecting this. I always knew I was willing to work hard but when the nominations came in and BAFTAs the week before, there was something kind of, something slightly absurd about it all.
“There’s stuff going on at home that is difficult and this has given my family a very welcome respite, and we’re going to have a great time as a family. They’re all coming out to LA.”Ms Kearney clarified that Mescal was referring to his mother preparing for chemotherapy on the same day that he received his Academy Award nomination, which had been announced by his sister Nell on Twitter.Discover, learn, grow. We are Curiously. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
He also spoke about his role in the school musical production of Phantom of the Opera which steered his career away from playing Gaelic football. He said: “I went to Maynooth Post Primary and they have this policy where regardless of whether you want to be in it or not, everybody’s going to be in the school musical and you have to audition.
“I feel like had it not been for that policy, I don’t know if I would have had the confidence to turn around to my friends who I was playing sport with and say, ‘I want to be in the school musical’. So that policy afforded a kind of possibility and I think that changed my life forever.”
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