Stop the presses, because brand-new pictures of Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal in historical queer drama The History of Sound has been released.
Posted exclusively by Vanity Fair, the stills show the two gorgeous actors in their period-appropriate outfits.
One features Mescal floating in a pool, O’Connor smoking a cigarette, and the pair laughing together next to a piano.
Directed by Oliver Hermanus, the film follows the two engaging in a tender romance while studying at a music Conservatory in New England post-World War One, and embarking on a project to record the lives, songs, and stories of their countrymen throughout the war.
The pair first meet at a piano bar where Lionel (played by Mescal) hears David (O’Connor) singing a folk song from Lionel’s youth and becomes instantly infatuated.
It is an adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning short story of the same title written by Ben Shattuck.
The film is set to premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and is said to take “surprising, sometimes tragic plot turns, and demonstrates an effortless, palpably sweet connection between two characters.”
Mescal and O’Connor, fresh off of their success in All of Us Strangers and Gladiator, and Challengers respectively, are joined in the film by Molly Price, Raphael Sbarge, Hadley Robinson, Emma Canning, Briana Middleton, Gary Raymond, Alison Bartlett, and Michael Schantz.
Hermanus told Vanity Fair: “I’m a gay man. I would love to go to the movies and watch a movie about a same-sex relationship that maybe makes me cry, but feels fulfilling. So much of queer cinema—and I’ve made queer cinema like this—is about the struggles.”
“For me, this has always been about wanting it to be accessible to everyone. We’re not going to make a movie about the problematising of their relationship or their sexuality,” he explained.
Mescal said that the film “definitely has romantic gestures in it” but “it is fundamentally about Lionel’s life.”
“There is a kind of real sense of companionship, and the joy and loss that comes with the presence and absence of that. It’s not just about sex and the intensity of falling in love. It’s deeper than that,” Mescal added.
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