![]() ![]() Rooney presents sexuality as a transformative, healing, complicated form of communication for both characters, and the series faithfully follows suit both roles include full-frontal nudity in scenes of striking rawness and delicacy. But “Normal People” brings an extra degree of difficulty: The novel focuses almost exclusively on the intimate, explicitly rendered relationship between Connell and Marianne, his on-again, off-again love. “But I’ve been looked after by the people I’ve been working with, so I’ve been given various life rafts.”Īs a young actor, just two years out of drama school, making his television debut in an eagerly anticipated adaptation, it’s not surprising that Mescal, 24, was experiencing a steep learning curve. “It’s like I’ve been thrown into the sea, never mind the deep end,” Mescal said, laughing, of his leading role playing Connell. The Irish actor was midway through a “beast” of a day, he said, shooting the high-profile adaptation, by Hulu and the BBC, of Sally Rooney’s wildly popular novel “Normal People.” ![]() ![]() DUBLIN - Paul Mescal, battling a cold, collapsed into a chair on the edge of a busy set just outside the city here. ![]()
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