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Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor Were ‘Naughty’ While Making The History of Sound
Paul Mescal on his quietly devastating WWI romance, in which he has intense and believable chemistry with Josh O’Connor.
It’s a quietly devastating WWI romance between Mescal’s Lionel and O’Connor’s David, students at the Boston Conservatory who flirt at a piano bar, fall into bed together, bond over a shared love of American folk music, and soon thereafter embark on a trip through the backwoods of Maine to record and collect the region’s songs. The very existence of the film, which is based on a short story by Ben Shattuck, has already worked various corners of the internet into a lather, and they’ll be glad to hear that Mescal and O’Connor have intense and believable chemistry, exchanging lots of yearning glances, hooking up in hallways and tents, and falling asleep on each other’s chests. Much goes painfully unspoken between Lionel and David; instead, Mescal and O’Connor impressively convey their soulful connection with long, live singing scenes, harmonizing beautifully as they stare at each other from across a room or over a piano.
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