After “Gladiator,” Paul Mescal desires to proceed his collaboration with “Aftersun” author/director Charlotte Wells. After which he desires to proceed it like eight extra occasions.
In an interview for a GQ cowl story, Mescal shared that he hopes for “a De Niro–Scorsese relationship” with the filmmaker. Childhood friends Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese have labored collectively on 10 characteristic movies since 1973; De Niro additionally has sourced materials for Scorsese and instructed variations of “Silence” and different novels. It’s a excessive bar.
Wells made her characteristic debut in 2022 with the semi-autobiographical “Aftersun,” for which Mescal was Oscar-nominated for mainly enjoying Wells’ real-life father. Within the movie, which is ready within the late Nineteen Nineties, Mescal’s character travels along with his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio) to Turkey to have a good time his thirty first birthday.
The “Gladiator II” actor beforehand informed IndieWire that indies like “Aftersun” are uncommon.
“We got to make it and nobody knew of it,” Mescal stated. “I don’t think that happens a lot anymore. I love a blockbuster as much as the next person, but my only point is that we have to be careful about just leaving a bit more space for films like ‘Aftersun’ to break out, films like ‘Close’ to break out. I really don’t think I’m snobby about it. It’s actually to do with just being worried that that space [for independent film] is being encroached upon. And if we don’t keep the ecosystem balanced, we’re just gonna have one kind of film.”
He later added to Vainness Honest, “To be part of one of the films this year that operated in the space [at the Oscars] — the films that I’m most excited to see every year — was really satisfying. Weirdly those are the things that I’ve always dreamt about. To A, have something that gets into these things, but B, to get in across the board and for it to be with somebody like Charlotte [for her] first film, it’s just like — yeah.”
As for Wells’ upcoming slate, she informed IndieWire in 2023 that her future tasks will “always be personal in some ways.”
“It’s easier to be more personal, to give more of yourself, if there is a veneer of fiction that is more obvious than here, where there is not a character that is so easy to draw a straight line between them and me,” Wells stated. “But it’s always going to be personal. I’m always going to be using film to express something of myself. This [‘Aftersun’] is probably as ‘actually completely about my life’ as it’s ever going to get. But you know, never say never.”
Wells has not but introduced her subsequent venture since “Aftersun.”
