Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorPaul Mescal remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when he found out he secured the lead role of Connell in Hulu’s “Normal People.”He was participating in a play workshop in London when he missed a call from his agent. “I was like, ‘Oh God, Christ Almighty,’ he recalled during the Variety Virtual TV Fest. “I ran outside onto the street.
I had about five minutes, took the call, started screaming, rang my parents started screaming, went back into a room with the actors that I were working with.
It was like a week long workshop so they were like relative strangers — and I was like shaking. They were like, ‘What just happened?’ And I was like, ‘This big part!'”His co-star.
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