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23rd November 2020
04:30pm GMT

Emmy nominated Mescal, from Maynooth, Co Kildare, added that despite the experience that the series gave him, the level of sudden fame he was catapulted into was, at times, "brutal."
“Very, very quickly, pretty much overnight, there were people following me to the shops with cameras," he said. “It’s a very steep learning curve and not one I mastered immediately at all.
“It was a very interesting setting in which to learn the rules of being of public interest, for sure. “[It was] brutal, if I am honest with you. Totally brutal.
“At first you think, ‘Oh, this is a bit glamorous,’ when someone is taking a picture of you buying ready-to-eat avocados and cigarettes at the off-licence, but soon enough you feel it begin to infiltrate your brain.”
Mescal has been linked to several famous faces since his stint on the TV show including co-star India Mullen and US singer, Phoebe Bridgers.
During the first lockdown, he told the I'm Grand Mam podcast that he was looking forward to dating again.
"I'm trying not to think of how different it's all going to be now that people have seen Normal People," he said.
"I'm trying not to think of it being weird because I think, we've been in lockdown for months and I've had no opportunity to meet somebody new or being remotely intimate with anybody."Explore more on these topics: