Paul Mescal: Sex scenes can be both healing and sexy
Paul Mescal says sex can be "healing and sexy" in film.
Paul Mescal believes sex scenes can be both "healing and sexy".
The 'Normal People' star, 27, was asked by actress Natalie Portman, 42, why often in film love-making scenes are not always sexy and "tender", "particularly for same-sex relationships?"
She had praised Paul and his co-star Andrew Scott, 47, for making their time beneath the sheets in the romantic fantasy 'All of Us Strangers' both emotive and raunchy.
Speaking to each other for Variety's Actors on Actors series, he responded: "Andrew Scott’s character, Adam, who is in his mid-40s, has a difficult relationship to sex. My character serves as a safe landing space for him to re-explore his sexuality. I think sex in film, when it can be healing and sexy at the same time, that’s when it’s at its best."
Talk then moved to Natalie's latest flick 'May December' and how her sex scene with Charles Melton in the sex scandal movie made his "stomach drop".
Natalie features in the Todd Haynes film as actress Elizabeth Berry - who visits the notorious tabloid figure Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore) as she is set to play her in a film.
Gracie hit the headlines after entering a relationship with a 12-year-old boy and the pair have married in the 20 years since. However, Elizabeth's visit highlights the fractures in the pair's relationship.
