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Paul Mescal’s comment about meeting the King was funny – but Garron Noone’s reaction made it even funnier

Oonagh Keating. Updated November 20th, 2024

By now you’ll have seen Irish actor Paul Mescal talking to Variety’s Marc Malkin at the Los Angeles premiere of Gladiator II, giving his perfect response to a question about having been presented to King Charles at last week’s London premiere.

If not, here’s what happened.

“I’m Irish, so it’s not on the list of priorities.”

We’re not sure what response Variety was expecting, but it probably wasn’t that. We think it ticked the important boxes – box 1 – be polite, box 2 – subtly convey what a stupid question that was to put to an Irishman.

As you’d imagine, there were mixed reactions. The Daily Mail? Fuuuuming! Pretty much everyone else? Virtually high-fiving Paul Mescal for the subtle mix of diplomacy and shade.

Paul’s countryman, singer and comedian Garron Noone spotted the clip, and he simply slathered the icing on top of the cake.

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♬ original sound – Garron Noone

There can never be too much sarcasm levelled at the Daily Mail, in our opinion.

We’d love Garron to meet the King and eat tiny sandwiches, because we suspect Charlie would be coming in for some previously unimagined levels of being treated like just another bloke, and it would do him the world of good.

TikTok users were on the same page.

Am I the only one who thought he meant Elvis at first?
smyle

They didn’t know this? Where have they spent the last century?
LisamarieGray

My English cousin was blown away when I told him I didn’t want to meet the queen. I was like 14 and I said I’d rather meet her dogs bc they’re so cute and apparently I’m awful.
JustMe

If he was on my bingo card and it meant I won a Christmas turkey with a full house ( of Windsor ) I’d go Jesus that was lucky I won a turkey.
provincialmarketing

Howling at this.
Lucy

The video found its way to Twitter, where it delighted yet more people.

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Sunday Skye on TikTok added this –

Cillian Murphy meeting William was hilarious.

Close – it was Harry.

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An excited American interviewer asked Paul Mescal how ‘wild’ it was to meet King Charles and his A answer brought him magnificently down to earth with a bump

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