Paul Mescal (From The Patreon Archive): Episode 352

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, star of BBC Three's much anticipated drama series Normal People, Paul Mescal joined Jarlath for a truly remarkable chat about his life and journey to this very exciting point in his career. Paul gives a fascinating account of this addictive and petrifying experience of discovering the school stage at the tender age of 16 (13:00), how he quit football for acting (23:00) and the power and importance of working alongside an intimacy coordinator on the set of Normal People (52:00). Paul opens up like never before with his thoughts on toxic masculinity (30:00), his number one pet hate of group behaviour (48:00), connective tissue of sporting performance and acting (20:00) and much more. To hear Paul's thoughts on losing his private life, the isolation of first going to college, the most bizarre 3 hours of drama school, the time he seriously considered quitting acting completely and how he's keeping busy in lockdown, become a patron of An Irishman Abroad for just the price of a pint on www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad. You will also gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 250 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes. To hear Paul's thoughts on losing his private life, the isolation of first going to college, crazy times at drama school, how close he once came to quitting acting and how he's keeping busy in lockdown, become a patron of An Irishman Abroad for just the price of a pint on www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad. To access this episode in full and to hear all of our episodes in full each week, visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad and sign up for just the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to our entire archive of all of the podcasts we have ever released including - An Irishman In America, Men Behaving Better and An Irishman Behind Bars. If you come over and join in the first two weeks of August 2020, you will be given something very special as an additional thanks that won't disappoint. Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	You're very welcome to another episode of an Irishman abroad with me, Jarleth Riegan.
0:08.3	I hope you enjoyed this extract from one of our all-time classic episodes with Paul Meskell.
0:15.8	To hear the full hour-long interview and more deep dive chats with hundreds of the greatest Irish people
0:22.5	ever to have left our shores along with our other series such as Irishman in America with
0:27.9	Marion McKeown and lots, lots more. Sign up for premium Irishman abroad over at patreon.com
0:35.0	forward slash Irishman abroad. It only takes a minute and for less than a five or a
0:40.0	month you'll gain access to everything and you can walk around with a spring in your step knowing
0:44.6	that you helped this series survive and grow through these difficult times. Our chosen charity partner
0:50.6	is jigsaw. i.e. Jigsaw are a youth mental health charity that works to provide young people
0:57.0	back in Ireland with the mental health skills they will need to survive in life. Since the pandemic,
1:03.1	they have seen a 400% jump in demand for their one-to-one and group services. With their phone line,
1:10.1	their webinars and their new website, jigsaw.e are making a huge difference
1:15.4	back home across all communities.
1:18.0	Why not take two minutes to visit them and see if maybe they can help you or someone in your
1:23.1	life or maybe through a donation you could help them.
1:26.8	That's jigsaw.I.E.
1:28.9	the chosen charity partner of an Irishman abroad.
1:33.4	That's the small talk.
1:35.2	Now let's go down to business.
1:37.0	Now, your program, what's de big idea?
1:40.9	Well, they're going to know the Irish much better.
1:43.5	We've now got to know how largely their mind works.
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