Paul Mescal’s age has become a topic of viral interest.
Fans of the 28-year-old Irish actor – who recently hosted Saturday Night Live – are stunned to find out that he is, in fact, 28 and not 36 or 42.
Whether it is his looks, people’s warped perception of what 28 looks like, or the gravitas of Mescal’s acting chops, the fact is fans cannot stop reacting incredulously to it.
One X (formerly Twitter) account started the whole fascinating discourse off with a deceivingly simple statement.
‘Paul Mescal is the first man in history to be both 28 and 42 at the same time.’
People jumped into the comments to express their disbelief and recommend that he start a skincare regimen stat.
Paul Mescal’s age has become a topic of viral interest. Fans of the 28-year-old Irish actor are stunned to find out that he is, in fact, 28 and not 36 or 42. Seen here November 15, 2022
One of the replies to that tweet said that Mescal looked more like 62 than 42 or his real age of 28.
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‘He is 28, you are just used to see people full of botox at the age of 22,’ someone wrote on X.
And Mescal likely won’t see all of the chatter about his age because he deactivated his social media, saying simply that is wasn’t good for him to read all the discourse written about him.
Other fans offered skin care tips like ‘moisturize….keep yourself hydrated,’ while someone else advised him to ‘get that retinol.’
Someone else wondered, ‘What has he gone through,’ to look as he does at 28.
Another person thought smoking could be the culprit and no amount of skin care can offset a bad habit like that.
‘Doesn’t work if you chain smoke and drink a lot,’ they wrote.
Whether it is his looks, people’s warped perception of what 28 looks like or the gravitas of Mescal’s acting chops, the fact is fans cannot stop reacting incredulously to it. Seen here December 7, 2024
One X (formerly Twitter ) account started the whole fascinating discourse off with a deceivingly simple statement. ‘Paul Mescal is the first man in history to be both 28 and 42 at the same time’
People jumped into the comments to express their disbelief and recommend that he start a skincare regimen stat
Other fans offered skin care tips like ‘moisturize….keep yourself hydrated,’ while someone else advised him to ‘get that retinol’
One person claimed to be a ‘Paul Mescal age truther,’ while sharing a photo in which Mescal looks quite a bit older due to the period costume he is wearing
And finally, another fan summed it up, writing, ‘Leave Paul Mescal alone! Even if he looked older than 28, he’s way hotter than most people on this app’
One person claimed to be a ‘Paul Mescal age truther,’ while sharing a photo in which Mescal looks quite a bit older due to the period costume and styling.
And finally, another fan summed it up, writing, ‘Leave Paul Mescal alone! Even if he looked older than 28, he’s way hotter than most people on this app.’
Mescal is currently appearing in Gladiator II, which is being hailed as a great film that is even better than the 2000 film starring Russell Crowe.
He initially planned to play Lucius as he was, thin and wiry, but he soon realized that wasn’t the film maker’s vision and hit the gym hard, working with a trainer to transform his body.
He said he ‘didn’t recognize his body’ following his transformation which made him ‘excited,’ during his interview with Ariana Grande for Variety’s Actors on Actors series.
Paul said: ‘I initially decided when I’d first been cast—which was very naive—I was like, ‘I’m just going to go for normal ‘Gladiator.’ The way my body is is the way my body is.’ And then I was like, ‘That’s not the film we’re making.’
‘So I went into the gym, but I hadn’t tried on the costumes yet, and when I put the costumes on, I was like, ‘This is miles away from anything I’ve ever done.’
‘I didn’t recognize the way my body was in the clothes that I was wearing, and that created a distance from who you feel like the world expects you to be as a performer. That got me excited. And then we had some dodgy wig fittings, and I’m not a fan of a wig.’
Mescal is currently appearing in Gladiator II, which is being hailed as a great film that is even better than the 2000 film starring Russell Crowe; seen in a still
He initially planned to play Lucius as he was, thin and wiry, but he soon realized that wasn’t the film maker’s vision and started working with a trainer to transform his body. Seen June 17
Last month, Paul revealed he became so ripped he felt his body ‘could inflict real damage’ after his intense training sessions for Gladiator II.
The Normal People star previously told The Sun: ‘You start feeling like your body can inflict damage, which is weird.
‘It changes the way you move and operate. And that’s a fun kind of place to live when it’s make-believe.’
The thespian, who rose to fame as Connel Waldron in the BBC’s lockdown smash hit Normal People, plays the son of Russell Crowe’s legendary Maximus.
Although the character is long-since dead and buried, it is vengeful Lucius (Paul) who must fight for his liberty in the film after being taken into slavery and ripped away from his wife and daughter by general Marcus (Pedro Pascal).
Gladiator II takes place several decades after the first installment, and features Lucius (the son of Connie Nielsen’s Lucilla) who is now living in Numidia, a region of northern Africa.