Aftersun actor Paul Mescal guest-starring on this week's The Late Late Show

The first guest of this week's show to be announced, Aftersun star Paul Mescal will make an appearance on February 24th's episode of The Late Late Show.

An "absurd" experience found the 27-year-old nominated for the Oscars in Best Actor category alongside the likes of Irish acting star Colin Farrell from The Banshees of Inisherin. Mescal was also nominated in the Best Actor category for the BAFTAs, which happened last night in London.

Aftersun is about the father-daughter duo Calum and Sophie during a vacation to a Turkish resort when Sophie was eleven. Retroactively examining the trip as an adult, Sophie tries to understand her struggling then-30-year-old father.

The last time Mescal appeared on the RTÉ show, it was over Zoom through a computer screen's camera during the pandemic. Friday's show will be the Maynooth native's first time in The Late Late Show's actual studio.

Mescal burst into international stardom with his role in the hit 2020 miniseries Normal People, which he won a BAFTA for. In April, he's set to reprise his role in the London production of A Streetcar Named Desire before he begins filming for the Gladiator sequel, Gladiator 2.

The announcement came from Ryan Tubridy, the show's host, over on his RTÉ Radio 1 show this morning.

Tubridy joked that, given Mescal's recent string of successes, he'd tell the star to "Stop being so good at everything - it makes all of us feel very inadequate!"

The Late Late Show premieres on Fridays on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player at 9:35PM GMT.