A surreal love story unfolds in Andrew Scott’s emotional new film.
Written and directed by Andrew Haigh (WeekendHBO Watching), All of us strangers stars Bed alum Scott as Adam, a man in London who happens to meet his neighbor Harry, played by Paul Mescal.
Their meeting “breaks the rhythm [Adam’s] everyday life,” the synopsis states.
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“As their relationship develops, Adam is consumed by memories of the past and returns to the suburban town where he grew up and the childhood home where his parents appear to live – just as they were on the day they died 30 years ago. year.”
In these sequences, Adam’s parents are played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell.
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in “All of Us Strangers.”
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Haigh said vanity fair about witnessing an altercation between Costar Scott, 46, and Mescal, 27.
“There was chemistry between the two of them literally as soon as I saw them together. They were both quite fearless,” the director said, adding of the intimate parts: “There was no sense that they were afraid to approach those scenes. They knew how important they were.”
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Of the inspiration for the complicated story of grief and past trauma, Haigh said: “I didn’t have the happiest of childhoods — childhoods are complicated, especially when you’re gay, and I think a lot of the story deals with those elements.”
You have to deal with those things when you go back to that environment, he added.
All of us strangers it’s in theaters on December 22.
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