‘Normal People’ star Paul Mescal would love to return to Gaelic football

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'Normal People' star Paul Mescal would love to return to Gaelic football

“Normal People” star Paul Mescal harbors aspirations of playing Gaelic football competitively in the future.

The London-based actor, who plays Connell in the Lenny Abrahamson television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s book currently airing on RTÉ One and BBC, as well as streaming in the United States, was a minor from Kildare and U21, in addition to being a promising minor. cricket player

Paul Mescal competes a falling ball for Kildare against Cormac Cullen of Dublin in the final of the 2015 Leinster U21 Football Championship at Páirc Táilteann. Image: Matt Browne / SPORTSFILE
Paul Mescal competes a falling ball for Kildare against Cormac Cullen of Dublin in the final of the 2015 Leinster U21 Football Championship at Páirc Táilteann. Image: Matt Browne / SPORTSFILE

Featuring the Lilywhites as defenders in the 2015 finals and Leinster U21 against16 against Dublin and the entire Ireland quarter-finals against Kerry in 2014, Mescal’s Gaelic football acumen is obvious from the game scene in episode one.

Although he is unlikely to be able to re-line up for his Maynooth club due to his career, the 24-year-old told GQ magazine that he misses the game: “Absolutely. It is something that has been a massive formative part of my life and something that has taught me a lot about acting in terms of self-discipline and being ready and being able to take advantage of opportunities.

Paul Mescal, as Connell, and Daisy Edgar-Jones, as Marianne, in 'Normal People'.
Paul Mescal, as Connell, and Daisy Edgar-Jones, as Marianne, in ‘Normal People’.

“In a dream world, I would love to come back and play with my team. But as long as work is pretty busy, I don’t think I can do both at the moment. “

Mescal intended to play senior for Kildare before acting. “I played Gaelic soccer since I was little, and that was the way I wanted to go. And then when I was 16, we made a school musical. We did “The Phantom of the Opera”. I loved that. I have never had a buzz or a rush like that in my life. He had been chasing that up to a point. But I never saw it as a valid career choice.

When it came to applying to college, he was looking down on the law and the arts and things that would support playing Gaelic football.

“The closer it came to being a reality, the more I rejected it. So I quickly applied for drama schools, but there was one where I wasn’t late for Dublin. I applied for it and got it. I was still playing soccer in freshman and sophomore year, which was not allowed, but I kept it at the lowest level. Then I broke my jaw two days before I started my senior year. “

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