![]() ![]() A tip-off from a friend helped Daisy Edgar-Jones land the role of Marianne on Normal People. Plus, he told GQ that Connell’s identity crisis felt all too familiar, saying, “how he perceives himself in the world and versus what he actually wants to do is also something that I definitely related to.” 3. Like Connell, Mescal grew up playing Gaelic football and attended Trinity College in Dublin. Paul Mescal, the 24-year-old Irish actor who plays Normal People’s handsome lothario Connell Waldron, may be a TV newcomer, but he was a shoo-in for the leading man role. ![]() Actor Paul Mescal is more like his Normal People character Connell Waldron than you might think. It even beat out former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Becoming to be named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. bestseller-selling almost 64,000 copies in hardcover in its first four months of release, according to Vox. Author Sally Rooney published Normal People, her second novel, in 2018 and it quickly became a U.S. ![]()
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