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16th January 2024
01:48pm GMT

"I’d just get too f***ing bored. I don’t want to close myself off to going out and meeting someone in a bar, or getting drunk at a party. That would turn me into a boring human. It would be dangerous to start wrapping yourself in cotton wool and not be out in the world, through fear.”
He is however, aware of the fact that his celebrity status may be about to reach orbit, following the upcoming release of the much-anticipated sequel to Gladiator, one of the biggest movies of all time. "I don’t know what the difference will be," he says about the fallout from the film, where he plays the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix's Commodus in the 2000 original. "Maybe that’s naive? Is it just that more people will stop you in the street? I’d get profoundly depressed if that’s so and hope it isn’t true. "I’ll have an answer next year, but if [the film] impacts my life in that way, I’ll be in a bad spot. I’d have to move on and do an obtuse play nobody wants to see." You can see Mescal in the cinema next when All of Us Strangers comes to Irish screens on January 26. Join JOE’s WhatsApp community for first access to news, updates, and quizzes. Click on this link to receive news and the latest headlines directly to your phone. You can leave the group at any time.Paul Mescal photographed by Pip for The Times pic.twitter.com/1leAA4WB9e
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