Other heartthrobs exude swagger or sex, but Paul Mescal emanates something more devastating: the irresistible promise of disappointment
Not everything Paul Mescal has been in over the course of his short career has been a romance, but they’re all love stories of one sort or another — when not between lovers, then between a mother and her wayward son or a daughter and her elusive father. It’s seemingly impossible not to long for the 27-year-old Irish actor, though as a very contemporary object of desire — which is to say that the women he shares the screen with yearn for his character to do better as much as they yearn for him.
It’s those glimpses of unexplored depths, as well as his willingness to be vulnerable, that make Connell so appealing and that make his treatment of Marianne such a brutal mindfuck. In private, he’s outright tender, opening up, telling her he loves her and seeming to mean it, while in public he blanks her and remains silent while his friends hurl insults her way, insisting afterward that they were just teasing.
Other heartthrobs may exude swagger or sex, but Mescal emanates something more devastating: the irresistible promise of eventual disappointment., one of the two movies Mescal was in last year. In that one, Emily Watson is the mother, Aileen, and Mescal’s character, Brian, is like a Connell who curdled into something dark.
Brian is eventually revealed to be something worse than a garden-variety scumbag, a disappointing development in a film that felt more urgent as a testament to the way garden-variety scumbags get protected by communities every day. Both Connell and Brian are hometown hero types, cherished sons that small communities will close ranks around, especially when it comes to behavior involving women.
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