Paul Mescal Explains Why His Intimate Scenes With Andrew Scott Were His Best & Reveals the Role He'll Feel Incomplete Without Playing

On returning to the stage…

Paul stressed that he was excited to get back into stage acting again after starring in A Streetcar Named Desire.

“Before that was probably the longest I’d been away from the stage, and it was too long. I just love it,” he said. “It’s so gratifying – it’s a very difficult thing to commit to because the schedule is so gruelling but, ultimately, it feels like an elixir. I think it’s so important, and I’d be a lesser actor if I didn’t give myself the time to do it.”

While he didn’t provide a hard timeline for his next project, he said that he’d like it to take place “in the not-too-distant future.”

On his dream stage role…

“I’d love to play Biff in Death of a Salesman. That’s the big thing on my list that I need to do. Like that… that will kill me,” he said. “But the stressful thing about theatre is that there are some actors who will just never get the opportunity to play a character because it depends on when a revival is done. You could be right for the part but like… I know they did a production of Death of a Salesman recently, so I’m hoping that the next time it comes around, the director likes me for it. I know there’ll be something left undone if I don’t get to play that part.”