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Paul Mescal says comparing his film romance with Josh O’Connor to Brokeback Mountain is ‘lazy and frustrating’
In Cannes to promote The History of Sound, the actor said ‘I don’t see the parallels at all, other than we spent a little time in a tent’
Speaking at a press conference in Cannes the day after the film’s premiere, Mescal – who followed a supporting performance in Andrew Haigh’s acclaimed gay ghost story All of Us Strangers with playing the lead in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II – said he believes cinema is “moving away” from alpha male roles. In The History of Sound, directed by Oliver Hermanus, whose Kurosawa remake Living scored an Oscar nomination for Bill Nighy three years ago, Mescal and O’Connor play musicologists who travel to New England just after the first world war to record the folk songs of their rural countrymen. Mescal then praised his absent co-star O’Connor, who made his name in Francis Lee’s queer drama God’s Own Country and is now finishing production on Steven Spielberg’s next film, calling him “one of the easiest persons” to establish a rapport with.
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