New Look at Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott’s Ghostly Gay Drama ‘All of Us Strangers’

The official description from Searchlight Pictures goes: “One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (a screenwriter, played by Scott) has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (played by Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died thirty years before.”

While this “encounter” seemed vague initially, director Andrew Haigh has basically confirmed that it is going to be pretty queer, with Haigh saying there was “chemistry” between Mescal and Scott the “second I saw them together,” and proceeded to tease of the film’s intimate scenes.

Hiagh said that Mescal and Scott were “fearless” in approaching sex scenes. The director added that while he had been more “objective” in shooting intimate scenes in the past, for this movie, he chose to feel the “subjective nature of having sex and what it feels like—the nervousness and the excitement and the physical sensation of being touched by someone else, and what that does to you.”

‘All of Us Strangers’ is produced by Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Sarah Harvey and was previously known as ‘Strangers.’ It is loosely based on the 1987 Japanese novel ‘Strangers’ by Taichi Yamada.

‘All of Us Strangers’ is set to release in theaters on December 22.

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