Emily Watson Paul Mescal on the massive importance of new movie Gods Creatures

We chatted to Emily Watson and Paul Mescal about their powerful new Irish drama God s Creatures, and how telling stories like this one shouldn t be seen as a risk, but as a very important part of our modern culture. The movie tells the story of a young man (Paul Mescal) who returns home to Ireland after working in Australia for a number of years, to an overjoyed reaction by his overworked mother (Emily Watson). However, he is barely back home a few days when he is accused of assault by a local woman, and without thinking twice, his mother provides him an airtight alibi. But her trust in her son s innocence slowly begins to erode when she spends more time with During the chat, we asked Paul Mescal about potentially being fearful of taking on a project like this, which tackles such a hot topic in a direct but also specifically Irish way. He told us the following: Just the standard of the script, full stop, just artistically as a script was beautiful, so that initial