Emily Watson & Paul Mescal on the massive importance of new movie God’s 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 him... 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