Saoirse Ronan knew Paul Mescal would land meaty Hollywood roles after seeing him in an Irish sausage commercial: 'I went, 'Oh, who's that guy?''
cover story published Wednesday, Ronan revealed that the first time she saw the Oscar-nominatedstar act was in his 2018 commercial for Irish sausage brand Denny. "He'll kill me for mentioning it, but — I'm not actually joking — that was the first time I went, 'Oh, who's that guy?'" Ronan said. "He's really good.", an adaptation of Iain Reid's 2018 novel of the same name, out Oct. 6.
At the time, Mescal was a recent drama school graduate with "no money," he told BBC Radio 4 earlier this year . "If I ever feel like I get too big for my boots, it kind of pops up somewhere that we shouldn't forget that I was promoting sausages when I got out of drama school," Mescal said, recalling of how he booked the gig: "My agent was like, 'I don't know how you'll deal with this, but we've got a sausage advert that you can go on.
It was quite the experience, Mescal said, noting that he ate many sausages that day because it felt "rude" to spit out the meat after each take. "They do this thing where they come around with like a bucket that you're supposed to spit them out into, and that just felt rude to me," he said. "But I learned my lesson that it's better to do that than have to eat 15 sausages in a morning.
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