NORMAL People star Paul Mescal has revealed that devastating suicides when he was a teenager left him terrified of portraying depression.
Paul, who plays Connell Waldron in the hit BBC series, opened up about his real-life experiences during a recent interview and said he felt really nervous about certain scenes. "My innocence was ripped away very quickly," he said, referring to the suicide of his classmate at secondary school. "You think you’re a big boy at 14 but you’re not.
You’re still a child." "Three people killed themselves at my school. So it’s not fictional to me, it’s real, and I was really nervous portraying it." After the first death, Paul’s mother took him out of lessons for a week because he "wasn’t equipped to cope with that.
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