Straight actor Paul Mescal says LGBTQ role in ‘All Of Us Strangers’ is not ‘offensive’ for one reason
Irish heartthrob Paul Mescal claimed S💦unday that straight men should be allowed to play gay roles depending on who🌞 is in charge of the film.
“It depends [on] who’s in charge of telling the story,” Mescal, 27, . “The issue is that there have been so many queer performances in cinema that have been offensive, but that’s because the filmmakers and the actors have been careless.”
“I don’t think this film exists in that conversation whatsoever. And that’s it,” Mescal said referring to his LGBTQ film “All Of Us Strangers.”
The tear-jerker fantasy film, which was released♈ last month and tells the story of Adaꦰm (Andrew Scott), a lonely British screenwriter who has a sexual encounter with his neighbor Harry (Mescal) which sets him on the path to self-acceptance.
“We are still navigating, as men, how to be vulnerable,” Mescal tells The Times as to why he chose to star in the film. “Time and time again men are told vulnerability is weakness and not what society requires of them, so it’s difficult to reach out for help.”
According to the “Gladiator 2” star, he found comfort in his intimate scenes with Scott, 47, to the point he even called them “healing.”
“You have Andrew Scott’s character, Adam, who is in his mid-40s, who has a difficult relationship to sex,” Mescal said in a recent interview. “Then you have Harry come in, who is much more comfortable. Harry serves as a safe landing space for him to re-explore his sexuality, which I think is both really moving and also really sexy.”
“I think sex in film, or any form of media, when it can be healing and sexy at the same time, that’s when it’s at its best,” he continues.
Mescal recently made headlines after a clip of the Irish heartthrob speak🧸ing in an American accent went viral via TikTok.
The clip, which has been viewed nearly 6 milli🍷on times, was&nbs🅠p; in an effort to which stars Mescal as Juniro and Saoirse Ronan, 29, as Hen.
“Do me a favor,” Junior says in the clip. “Stop wearing thꦿat shirt.”
“Why?” questions Hen. “I like this shirt.”
“You were wearing it the day we mꦐet,” Junior says. “The more you w🃏ear it, the more worn out it’ll get.”
The 33-second video left several viewers aghast.
“PAUL MESCAL WITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT? WITH SAIROSE RONAN?!” one fan scre♎eched in the video’s comment section.
“Theꦑ A🐠merican accent is making my brain do backflips,” said a second fan.
“He sounds like a completely different person in an Amer𒊎ican accent,” a third fan gushed.
