{"id":519044,"date":"2026-03-04T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:59:09","slug":"paul-mescals-mother-reflects-on-the-day-son-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519044\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Mescal\u2019s mother reflects on the day son said\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/paul-mescal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Paul Mescal<\/a>\u2019s mother has shared the moment that her son told her that their family\u2019s lives were about to change ahead of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/culture\/hamnet-movie-rihanna-dance-video-b2904652.html\" title=\"Watch the Hamnet cast\u2019s joy dancing to Rihanna while filming at Shakespeare\u2019s Globe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> actor&#8217;s superstardom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on This Morning on Tuesday (3 March), Dearbhla Mescal recalled the phone call she received from her son as his show Normal People became an instant overnight success during the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>She said the actor rang her whilst running in London in spring 2020 and told her: \u201cLife is going to change. I don\u2019t know what way it\u2019s going to land\u2026 but whatever way that does we\u2019re going to be together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has since been nominated for a plethora of awards including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. \u201cI think he\u2019s found his place,\u201d she smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Mescal\u2019s mother has shared the moment that her son told her that their family\u2019s lives were about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,1348,3355,134,3359,3353,44,3356,3354,3357,3358,427,1346],"class_list":["post-519044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-tv","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}