Normal People's Paul Mescal claims it would be selfish of him to want to return for a season two of Normal People - he is worried incase he ‘f*ucks it up’.
The Kildare born actor, 24, was catapulted to fame off the back of the record breaking series this summer and quickly became a household name all over the world, reports Irish Mirror.
But despite fans desires for a quick return of the melancholic drama between his character Connell and his on screen lover Marianne played by Daisy Edgar Jones, he admitted he would be wary of jumping back into the series too soon.
“The selfish actor part of my brain knows how challenging and how fun it is to play a character like Connell.
“There’s also the part of me that goes like, OK, I’m really proud of that show, but I don’t want to go in and do a second season too soon and f--k it up.
“Because often that can be the case, where that perfect thing suddenly becomes less perfect," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
“I would obviously love to play Connell again, but that decision has got to come from people who are way higher than me in terms of creative input.
The Maynooth man added: “I think you’ve also got to let Connell and Marianne grow up a little bit, maybe five, 10,15 years.
“If you were to go and look at these characters again, you’ve got to let them enter a different phase of their lives.”
The Irish production company behind Normal People, Dublin’s Element Pictures, has said there are no plans for another series of the Sally Rooney adaptation.
Instead, it is focusing on bringing Rooney’s first novel, Conversations with Friends, to television with the same brilliant team of creatives lead by directer Lenny Abramhamson.
Meanwhile, breakthrough star Mescal, who has been cooped up in an apartment in London throughout lockdown revealed he can’t wait to get working on a new project.
He said: “I’ve been signed with Curtis Brown since drama school, but I’ve since signed more recently with CAA. And it’s been great.
“As much as I’m as eager as anybody else to go out and work, it feels like it’s been a really nice time to get the team and myself and to figure out how everybody functions.”
“I suppose there’s loads of negatives..[of lockdown] but the positives are that you’ve time to meet casting directors and producers via Zoom.
“It’s been a really informative few months in that sense of kind of starting to see the kind of inner workings of the industry in a way that I haven’t seen before.”
He added: “ I feel like I haven’t really had a second to breathe in general, but I don’t know what it would have been like in terms of jumping on planes and going to meet people.
“As awful as 2020 has been, it’s been professionally and personally an incredibly amazing year.”
