Aftersun

While we’ve seen Daisy Edgar-Jones return to our screen in a variety of new film and TV roles (Disney+’s Fresh, Under The Banner Of Heaven and upcoming Where The Crawdads Sing), we haven’t seen as much from her Normal People counterpart Paul Mescal.

While he’s featured in Netflix hit movie The Lost Daughter, raved-about upcoming film Aftersun is really where we can’t wait to see him as the star of the show.

It’s his first major role since the hit BBC drama and stars Mescal as a young father who takes his 11-year-old daughter on a budget holiday in the 90s. It’s a troubled relationship but the film is set to explore depression, mental health and fatherhood in the most confronting (and beautiful) of ways.

It may sound like a simple premise but if the raving reviews from Cannes Film Festival are anything to go by, it’s set to platform Mescal as one of the best, emotionally raw and wide-ranging actors of recent time. If one thing’s for certain, we’ll be packing the Kleenex when this lauded film finally comes to the big screen.

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