Normal People’s Paul Mescal is set to continue his rise to prominence by headlining Kevin Macdonald’s espionage thriller A Spy By Nature.
Coming off the back of a festival season during which he has wowed with both Aftersun (read our ★★★★ review here) and God’s Creatures (read our ★★★★ review here), Deadline reports that Mescal will lead A Spy By Nature for The Last King of Scotland director Kevin Macdonald.
Trainspotting scribe John Hodge has adapted the first novel in Charles Cumming’s bestselling Alec Milius series of books, with the most recent draft written by Industry‘s Joseph Charlton.
A Spy By Nature tells the story of Alec Milius, a disillusioned twenty-something whose gift for deception catches the eye of MI6. Caught up in the thrusts of a geopolitical war on commodities involving the British and the Americans, at home he struggles to preserve his relationship with his girlfriend and build a future together. As his web of lies grows, Alec is forced to confront his own nature – whether he can be a good man as well as a good spy.
Macdonald said in a statement that is was “a very modern spy story – sexy, dangerous, morally ambivalent – and only an actor of Paul’s talent could pull it off.”
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