If anyone’s found themselves everywhere lately, it’s Paul Mescal. But the Irish actor, fresh off Cannes, where his latest film The History of Sound premiered to a six-minute standing ovation, is now voicing frustrations about “lazy” criticisms about his work and the decline of “masculinity” in cinema.
Mescal insists Hollywood’s moving away from “traditional alpha male” roles - and that the habit of lumping his new film in with Brokeback Mountain is “lazy and frustrating.”
