‘Aftersun’ Star Paul Mescal’s ‘Immense Love’ for Co-Star Frankie Corio Helped Him Play a Young Father
thewrap.comWhen you read the script you immediately knew you wanted the role. Was there a specific moment that did it for you or was it more of an overall feeling?It was like when you read a good book… I can’t remember an exact moment.
Let’s just say the first couple of pages I was like, ‘This is somebody who knows exactly what they want and how they want to go about doing it,’ even just from the writing, before I met [Wells]. How do you prepare to play a young father to an 11-year-old, somebody who’s close enough in age to be a sibling?That was obviously something I was nervous about before we started working.
Then I started to think about stripping away the fact that, yeah, I’m not a dad or anything like that. So it was about just spending as much time [as possible] with [Corio].
Also, there’s a practicality to like, if you like the people that you’re working with normally the chemistry passes into the film.
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