Normal People: to make the actor and his 22-year-old co-star, Daisy Edgar-Jones – who played love-struck teens Connell and Marianne on the hit BBC show – appear as though they were bathed in sweat during their 41 minutes of sex scenes, spread out over 12 episodes.
That’s a lot of Egyptian Magic. ‘And honestly,’ he deadpans, ‘I get PTSD whenever I hear the name.’ So any hopes the brand has of making him its ‘face’…? ‘Well, obviously we’re in talks right now.’Having Mescal in my study – albeit it on a Zoom screen all the way from Sydney, where he is about to start filming Carmen, Benjamin Millepied’s modern-day reimagining of the celebrated opera – is having an odd effect on me.
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