Ask Paul Mescal about playing Paul McCartney in the first Beatles movie for Sam Mendes, currently filming at Bovington Airfield Studios outside London, and his face lights up.
He’s in Los Angeles for a stretch to do promotion for Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” around the Palm Springs Awards Gala, Critics Choice Awards (where the “Hamnet” team celebrated the inevitable win for Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare), and the Golden Globes this Sunday. Mescal is dutifully making the rounds of interviews, Q&As, and parties — and is now an Actor Award nominee from the Screen Actors Guild.