‘God’s Creatures’: Watch Paul Mescal’s Other Great 2022 Performance

In a win for reserved, hot people with nice quads, Paul Mescal is an Academy Award nominee for his devastatingly good performance in Charlotte Well’s debut feature Aftersun. I’m glad Academy members had enough sense to recognize such an impressively concealed performance, particularly in a category that’s often filled with older, established men doing hammy impersonations of dead people in bad prosthetics. (No one on this year’s ballot checks all of these boxes, praise the Lord!)

For anyone who hasn’t seen Aftersun, I hope this moment for Mescal encourages more people to seek out the film and, consequently, ruin their mental health and any future listenings of Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure.” The fact that the movie is garnering the attention it deserves following Mescal’s acting nominations is the perfect occasion to make a case for his other phenomenal performance last year in a similarly meditative but openly darker film.

So let me recommend watching Mescal’s other (and equally good) A24 project from 2022, a film that went completely under the radar for reasons I don’t understand, God’s Creatures.

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