Normal People star Paul Mescal has joked the neck chain he wore throughout the acclaimed series “will always be more popular than I am”.
The BBC adaption of Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel has become one of the most talked-about shows of the year, with viewers rapt by the complicated love story of Mescal’s Connell and Daisy Edgar-Jones’s Marianne.
However, arguably the series’s breakout star has been Mescal’s chain. The piece of jewellery has its own Instagram account, which at the moment has more than 88,000 followers, compared with the actor’s 425,000.
During a chat with Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio 1, the Irish star said he found the fan interest in the chain “funny”. He said: “It’s slightly terrifying.
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