Paul Mescal

From Wikipedia:

Paul Colm Michael Mescal (/ˈmɛskəl/ MESS-kəl; born 2 February 1996) is an Irish actor. His accolades include two BAFTA Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Born in Maynooth, he studied acting at The Lir Academy and then performed in plays in Dublin theatres. He rose to fame with his leading role in the BBC / Hulu romantic drama miniseries Normal People (2020), earning a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Mescal progressed to film acting with roles in the psychological dramas The Lost Daughter (2021), God’s Creatures (2022), and All of Us Strangers (2023). For his starring role as a troubled father in the coming-of-age drama Aftersun (2022), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Mescal expanded to big-budget films with a leading role in the historical action film Gladiator II (2024).

On stage, he portrayed Stanley Kowalski in a West End revival of the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (2022), which earned him the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. […]

In March 2025, it was announced that Paul Mescal would play Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes’ four-part biopic on the Beatles, with the first scheduled to be released in April 2028.

In the midst of his releases, Mescal is preparing to play Paul McCartney in Mendes’ four Beatles films, set to release in theaters April 2028 as the first “bingeable” movie experience. As for if he has connected with the real life counterpart, Mescal revealed, “I have, yeah. He’s an extraordinary man, like to spend any time— it’s a crazy sentence to say that I’ve spent time with that man, let alone play him.” As for if Mescal will be doing his own singing in the films, he said, “Yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah.”

From Paul Mescal Connecting with Paul McCartney Ahead of the Beatles Biopic – IndieWire, September 3, 2025

Other things he loves include, but are certainly not limited to, […] Paul McCartney (“I’ve met him a couple of times. I adore him. I think he changed the world”), and his current job rehearsing to play Paul McCartney in the four Sam Mendes biopics that are slated to be released in 2028: “It’s a version of a weird 9-to-5, and I thought I would hate that and I actually am loving that. I do like structure a lot. I like a plan. I like rehearsals.” […]

Last year, he started learning to play guitar left-handed, which McCartney is and Mescal isn’t. “It would just be crazy to not play it left-handed, you know?” he says of taking on the challenge. “You’re like, ‘Nah. I like [McCartney] a lot, but I don’t love him.’ That would be the messaging if I didn’t play left-handed. And he’s the fucking coolest man on planet Earth, I think.”

From Paul Mescal on History of Sound, Hamnet, and Playing Paul McCartney – RollingStone, September 15, 2025