Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor's gay romance is 'too polite'
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Irish actor Paul Mescal rejected comparisons of his new period romance "The History of Sound" with gay cowboy classic "Brokeback Mountain" on Thursday, saying the only thing they had in common was the characters spend time together in a tent.
Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor build a budding wartime romance in the 2025 Cannes Film Festival premiere "The History of Sound." What you won't see onscreen are either a tale directly about queer repression circa World War I or any explicit sex scenes,
Josh O’Connor experienced the splendor of Cannes in 2023, when he was there with Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. This year, he’s back with two movies in contention for the Palme d’Or: Kelly Reichardt’s art heist picture The Mastermind and Oliver Hermanus’ The History of Sound,