Actor Paul Mescal makes his debut as a rock and roll singer let loose in a luxury hotel in the music video for new Rolling Stones song Scarlet.
The video, which premiered on the band’s YouTube channel on Thursday, features the Normal People star during a drunken and lonely night at London’s Claridge’s hotel.
The Kildare-born actor (24) is seen smoking a cigarette and sipping whisky in the bathroom, leaping down the hotel’s grand stairwell and apologising to his lover, named Scarlet, over video call. The song is a previously unreleased track the group recorded with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in 1974.
The video was directed by filmmaking duo Us – Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor – with a socially-distanced shoot at Claridge’s.
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