He's about to star in one of the most romantic TV series of the decade but Dublin actor Paul Mescal knows all about nightmare dates. "We were walking along some lovely canal in Amsterdam and it should have been very romantic but it wasn't," said Mescal, from Maynooth, Co Kildare. Expand Close Daisy Edgar-Jones as Marianne and Paul Mescal as Connell (BBC/PA) / FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsapp Daisy Edgar-Jones as Marianne and Paul Mescal as Connell (BBC/PA)"I got off the phone - I thought I had given my greatest performance - and said, 'Oh my friend is in hospital, I have to go'. I'm a bad person," he joked during an interview with British Vogue along with Normal People co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones. The story follows the turbulent romance of Marianne and Connell, from their high-school days in small-town Ireland to college life in bustling Dublin.

Source: Irish Independent April 01, 2020 08:26 UTC