Paul Mescal is GQ's Breakout Actor of the Year

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Highlights from the interview

Paul Mescal recently watched "Normal People" with his co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones

• “We hadn’t actually watched it together, Daisy and I,” confesses Mescal. “Because of lockdown, we hadn’t done that, so last week we got together and watched the whole thing through. We actually ended up playing a little drinking game: every time Connell wouldn’t complete a sentence or any time Marianne would make an emphatic statement that made Connell uncomfortable we did a shot. We ended up talking over most of it, just reflecting on particular days, costume changes, memories. It was very special to get to do that with her. The thing we shared - will always share - is so unique."

Talks about the struggles of his overnight rise to fame after the sucess of "Normal People"

• So what did it feel like being at the centre of such a storm? “Brutal, if I am honest with you. Totally brutal. At first you think, ‘Oh, this is a bit glamorous,’ when someone is taking a picture of you buying ready-to-eat avocados and cigarettes at the off-licence, but soon enough you feel it begin to infiltrate your brain.”

He confirms he is in now in a relationship.

• We talk briefly about his girlfriend, someone whose name he’d rather be kept out of the press but whose support and guidance has been “a lifesaver. To have someone to lean on through such a mad, mad time has been invaluable. Really, I don’t know where I’d be without her.”

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Who do you think his new gf is? Could it be Phoebe Bridgers?