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Paul Mescal, Gracie Abrams and the rise of Hollywood's 'new power couple': He's battled inner demons for years but now the Gladiator II star is about to take the world by storm
Paul Mescal's swords 'n' sandals movie Gladiator II is set to make him an international action-adventure star when the film releases in November.
When Hollywood is poised to turn you into the most marketable actor on the planet, it's very unwise to have a photograph of yourself published in mass-circulation newspapers above stories describing you 'sniffing a suspicious substance from a key during a wild weekend at Glastonbury'. The film's hotly anticipated trailer, released last week and already garnering a record 180million views, shows the Colosseum in Rome flooded to stage a naval battle between gladiators and slaves as sharks circle beneath. Mescal is well aware of the inner demons that drive him: childhood financial anxieties, pubescent inadequacy, an actor's insecurity, his mother's bone marrow cancer battle – she was diagnosed in 2022 with multiple myeloma – and an addiction to cigarettes.
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