Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott don’t have any scarcity of chemistry collectively in the trailer for the film All of Us Strangers.
In the upcoming movie — which is predicated on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers — Scott, 46, performs Adam, a author revisiting the loss of his mother and father as a baby. Along the best way, he strikes up a romance together with his neighbor, Harry (Mescal, 27).
The official trailer was launched by Searchlight Pictures on Thursday, September 21 — and not solely reveals extra plot particulars however offers an additional glimpse into the extraordinary romance between Mescal and Scott’s characters.
The two-and-a-half-minute trailer features a montage of love scenes in addition to Adam returning to his childhood house to search out that his mother and father are alive and frozen in time on the ages they had been once they handed away. As he grapples with this revelation, he and Harry’s romance deepens.
“There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together,” director Andrew Haigh stated of Scott and Mescal in an August interview with Vanity Fair. “And in terms of the sex scenes: “Both of them were pretty fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching those scenes. They knew how important they were.”
He continued, “I’ve been more objective in how I’ve shot sex scenes in the past. Here, I really wanted to feel the subjective nature of having sex and what it feels like — the nervousness and the excitement and the physical sensation of being touched by someone else and what that does to you.”
When it involves the discourse questioning whether or not straight actors ought to play homosexual roles, Haigh, who’s homosexual, advised Vanity Fair he was largely involved with casting a homosexual actor in the function of Adam.
“I’m not one of those people who thinks you have to cast a queer actor in a queer role, but for this role, I did want to because I was trying to unpick some nuances of a certain generation of gay people,” he stated of Scott, who has spoken brazenly about being queer.
Haigh continued, “I needed someone that could understand that and have those conversations with me. I didn’t want it to feel like I was trying to explain what it was like.”
Mescal, for his half, dated Phoebe Bridgers from 2020 to late 2022.
All of Us Strangers shall be launched on December 22.3. Watch the complete trailer right here.
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