“It is so difficult to describe.”
Normal people it was one of the great sensations of TV in 2020, without a doubt. The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel got everyone talking.
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A hot topic was the show’s hot sex scenes – and during a recent appearance on The last show with Stephen Colbert, Normal peoplePaul Mescal revealed what it was like to shoot them with co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones.
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“Look, it’s a bizarre experience,” he admitted. “It is so difficult to describe because these situations are typically, depending on what you like, very private encounters.”
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“When you put 10 people in the room, a boom operator, and you are drenched in fake sweat, it’s really difficult.”
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“Obviously, we had an incredible team, an incredible support team that made this kind of scene look like the least horrible thing possible.”
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To make matters worse for Mescal: his concern that his “aunt on the west coast of Ireland” would eventually get a glimpse of the spicy scenes.
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“We were talking about what the show would be like and we warned her that if she ever wanted to enter that territory, maybe she would make a cup of tea, maybe leave the room.”
“I think she underestimated the fact that these scenes are quite long, so there were a few cups of tea made.”
Hopefully, she won’t have to make as many cups of tea when she watches what he does next.
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