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The pair starred alongside Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley in the Netflix thriller based on Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name back in 2021.
Speaking to Geek Ireland as she prepares to make her Marvel debut in the superhero blockbuster Madam Web, the actor said she “totally” agreed with surveys that named the Irish accent the sexiest of all.
She said that BAFTA winner Mescal, who rose to fame in 2020 after starring in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s hit novel Normal People, was fond of the cúpla focail on set.
“I worked with Paul Mescal, and he’s a really good friend of mine. I saw him speaking Irish and that blew my mind,” she said.
And while she didn’t get any Irish lessons from the Maynooth native, she joked that she might speak as Gaeilge “one day”.
Mescal previously admitted that he was intimidated by the Fifty Shades of Grey icon on the set of his first film.
He said that he was tasked with kissing Johnson on his first day of the shoot – confessing that he was “s****ing myself”.
He said at the time: “For some reason, the first scene that we had to do was me kissing [Ms Johnson]. I think I’d be okay with it if that happened to me now, but I think kissing anybody on your first day’s work, let alone your first f***ing job, let alone it being Dakota Johnson, you’re like: ‘Okay, great.’”
The 28-year-old said he was stunned when director Maggie Gyllenhaal asked him to be in the film with A-listers Johnson, Olivia Colman, and fellow Irish star Jessie Buckley.
“It’s pretty special isn’t it? It’s not a bad place to start,” he said.
“That was definitely one of those big moments in my life. When you’re called up and you’re like, ‘Maggie Gyllenhaal wants to have you in a film and you’re gonna be shooting it in Greece and Jessie’s gonna be in it, and Olivia’s gonna be in it, and Dakota’s gonna be in it.’
“It definitely kind of feels like a bit of a ‘fake it ’til you make it’ kind of a thing.
“And working with Maggie was a dream, she’s an actor’s dream. She pushes you and pulls you in directions and it never felt like we were arriving into a scene with a kind of finished product in mind.”
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