Paul Mescal

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q73367368: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Aftersun (2022); All of Us Strangers (2023); Gladiator II; Normal People; The Beatles biopics (four films).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Gladiator (2000): 6 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Gladiator II, which they acted in: Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read). The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original.
    “it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Gladiator II, which they acted in: Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read). The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison.
    “it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast) · through Gladiator II, which they acted in: Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read). The sequel tries to feel new by flipping the first film's premise: Marcus Aurelius's dream of Rome becomes its failure.
    “Instead of here's Marcus Aurelius's dream of what Rome can be, it's a bastardization and a compromise and a failure to execute against that promise.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage) · through Gladiator II, which they acted in: Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read). Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion.
    “I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage) · through Gladiator II, which they acted in: Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read). Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat.
    “And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft) · through Gladiator II, which they acted in: Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read). Lucius as Maximus's son is a classic retcon not in the first film's text.
    “it is, is a classic case of reconning.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:53:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Strangers: 2 lines

  1. lineage (departure from source) · through All of Us Strangers (2023), which they acted in: Strangers ⇒ All of Us Strangers (the maker said so: Andrew Scott interview on the episode). Scott deliberately did not read the source, saying the film is similar in tone but departs a lot from the original story.
    “It's similar in tone, but it's very, very, um, it departs a lot from the original story.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:25:03 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation) · through All of Us Strangers (2023), which they acted in: Strangers ⇒ All of Us Strangers (the host's read). The film adapts a Japanese story by Taichi Yamada, described as a ghost story queer romance.
    “He's adapted a Japanese story called Strangers by Taiichi Yamada.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:03:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Andrew Haigh: 1 line

  1. unmapped (autobiographical) · through All of Us Strangers (2023), which they acted in: Andrew Haigh ⇒ All of Us Strangers (the host's read). The film is filmed in Haigh's childhood home and blends his own romantic experiences with those of his partner's parents.
    “The movie is literally filmed in Andrew Hayes' childhood home.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:11:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (5) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Paul Mescal → Gladiator. Lucius's feats never match the first time we see Maximus against the Germanic tribe.
    “never really match up to the 1st time we see Maximus against the Germanic tribe.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:29:30 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Harris Dickinson → Paul Mescal. Dickinson's chain in Babygirl is likened to Paul Mescal's chain in Normal People as a meme object.
    “Harris Dickinson's chain is like the new Paul Mescal normal people chain.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:30:56 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. people (prior collaboration): Andrew Scott → Paul Mescal. They had done a Comic Relief comedy sketch together in London before the film.
    “We did a kind of comedy sketch together for comic relief in London.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:34:15 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Paul Mescal: Mallory's elevator story: Mescal stood by while a stranger recommended a chiropractor.
    “And the whole time Paul Mescal is just like, I can't wait for this conversation to be fucking over so I can get out of here.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:27:21 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)