How Well Paul Mescal Jessie Buckley Know Each Other

The last time I was playing I was reaching out to catch a ball and I just got punched straight across here and it snapped. That was that. That face is expensive baby. Yeah. It wasn't expensive then. Tell me a story. What story would you like? Something that moves you. Who is more Irish? I think Polars. I don't think that's true. You do because you like do GAA and you like you're still connected. You played the harp. Like I think we're both. We're both pretty Irish. Yeah. Proudly Irish. Who is better at mastering accents? Both of us I think. We're both masters of accents. I wouldn't say master. I think mastering. I try my best. You're kind of attacking us with that choice of word. I think it's like Irish actors though you have to like you're always kind of taught that you're probably not going to be working in your own accent all that much and I don't really like working in my own accent. Yeah. Glaswegian was pretty hard for Wild Rose. I had to like get my ear around that. Edinburgh took a second for me with Aftersun. Minnesota was quite it was quite fun. That was like such a like what but then once I got into that I was really I loved doing that. It was great fun. What sport did Paul play before an injury forced him to quit? My face is growing. Your face is growing. Gaelic football is like a mix between soccer and rugby but most like Australian rules if people watch that. It's a kind of manic brilliant sport that I love very much. The last time I was playing I was reaching out to catch a ball I just got punched straight across here and it snapped. Broke my nose and my jaw but not at the same time. Broken my fingers. And that ended your football career? Well I was about to start third year drama school and I was kind of winging it like getting away with it and then I broke my jaw and I was like I can't do both of these things. And that was that. That face is expensive baby. Yeah it wasn't expensive then. In her school production of West Side Story what lead role did Jessie play? Yeah. I'd love to hear you sing that part. Of course. Give us your Tony. No. Come on. I'm shy. You'd be a lovely Tony. What other ones did you play? I played Freddie Trumper in chess. I think I played like. Does he sing anthem? I think so I can't remember. Yeah. And I think I played God in Children of Eden. Listen it was like an all girls convent music school so we didn't get a choice but I loved playing those parts. It was great. We had to like what deciphered us was between the girls and the girls was all the girls playing the male part would wear like French flats in their hair and I remember for Freddie Trumper in chess I had this like oversized red linen suit. It was fun. Who's better at crying on command? Oh. There's no hope. Yeah Jacoby Duke can't cry on cue. Neither of us can cry on cue. Kids are amazing with that stuff. They like. Know how to do it. Yeah. They use it to manipulate things out of battle. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. You're never thinking of crying in the scenes. No. You end up crying. It's actually always awful when you see in a school and then she cries you're like I'm always like. I was gone. You know. Who has read more Shakespeare? Jassie. Paul and Emily. I think Jassie's read the most. Emily. Emily Watson. I think we've all read our fair share. Yeah. Macbeth. Don't we honey. We love Macbeth. Don't we just love Macbeth. We can't get enough of Macbeth. Up late at night just reading it. Out damn spot. Bloody spot. Don't define that. I think it's like the first time we've been able to imagine who he was as a person and who the people that were titanic in his life might have influenced his play so I guess if we were to do it again we'd have that knowledge but I think every job is different as well. Which BBC talent show did Jassie play second on before her first acting role? How are you getting the time to do Little Pictures? I was so young. What age were you? 17 when I did it. Jeez. I was like such a baby. I thought I was going to study musical theatre and be part of musical theatre and then I didn't get in to the drama school and I was over in London that weekend and the same weekend that I got turned away from this drama school they had this open audition for this show and so I just decided I would join the queue and practice for my next drama school audition and that's how it happened. Which Broadway composer has Paul said he would love to sing on stage with? Broadway? A Broadway composer? I assume it's this. It could be Aaron. Yeah. I don't remember saying that but obviously that process is so singular like we've got another over a decade to a long time to go with that film and the less I say about that the better because I don't want anybody to know about like what that process is like because that's kind of the gift of what it's going to be you know. Well done. I'm proud of you. Thanks. When I saw Boy Out for the first time and knowing I think that they shot that over eight nine years or something like that maybe a bit longer and I think this is the longest feat of this kind of film making style in fiction or in musical and like I love Ben and Beanie and obviously Rick's work is so brilliant he's kind of crafted that style and we're in the weeds with it now so it's exciting. I'm lucky that I've got pretty like robust I think robust vocal chords like a lot of shouting from probably Gaelic football that's kind of yeah like you obviously do your warm ups and things like that but I think the more you're using it the stronger it's like a muscle so the more you're using it the stronger it becomes. Who is directing Jesse's next role in the new Frankenstein adaptation? Maggie Gyllenhaal. I think Maggie wrote it for me and the first kind of time I read it without knowing that she had written it for me or was writing it was we were in Paris visiting a friend and we'd gone out for dinner we got a little bit tipsy and then she said I'm writing something will you come back and just read it I just want to hear what it sounds like out loud and I read it and I was it was just like two pages and I was like oh my god it's just like a radical punk provocative uncompromising new language and Maggie's such a bold and honest filmmaker and it just felt like something there's a lot of it I it took me a while to metabolize what she was actually trying to what she was creating because it was so new and that was just so exciting he makes you want to be better he so it's intense and it's so alive and he is only interested in being absolute and what he creates and so it makes you all come to work and feel like that's the kind of bar you know and then I think we both are pretty into pretty intense so it was it was wild you know it was just like being in a bit of a roller coaster