Normal People's Paul Mescal reveals how new movie Aftersun subverts male stereotypes
subverts long-held male stereotypes about fatherhood. The film follows a woman names Sophie, played by Frankie Corio and Celia Rowlson-Hall, who remembers a trip she took to Turkey 20 years ago with herdiscussing the movie, Mescal revealed how the project shows off a type of father we perhaps haven't seen much of before.
"Being a dad is the thing that he loves being the most in the world. I think he struggles with a lot of the rest of his life, to really tie a job down, but I think he is an excellent father," Mescal told us of his character. "And that's again, one of those tropes that I feel like we're used to seeing the single dad being kind of ineffective. He's a really wonderful, wonderful father."Mescal said that his character, however, is still struggling"internally" and isn't always successful in other areas of his life. Still, his skills as a father never falter — and Mescal says that movies featuring separated parents that don't demonise the mother or father are few and far between.
"It's refreshing to see separated parents when neither is an antagonist. I feel like we've seen that often the films have like 'the fun dad,' or like vice versa," Mescal shared. "I remember reading the script and seeing that Calum and Sophie’s mum had a natural rapport, that there's genuine care between them and I think that it is a positive position to put your child. I just enjoyed that. It was kind of moving against the trope that we normally see with single dads."
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