"In Conversation with Paul McCartney and Paul Mescal"

3 June 2026

11 mins 03s

When Paul met Paul.

What better way to celebrate the release of your twentieth solo studio album than to share a cup of tea with Paul Mescal, the guy who just so happens to be playing you in an upcoming biopic? In this Charlotte Wells-directed film, Paul McCartney talks 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane' with Mescal in a cafe with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

As the two Pauls discuss tracks like 'Salesman Saint', 'Lost Horizon', and 'Days We Left Behind' in 2026, the cafe and its customers hark back to McCartney's youth, before the Beatles changed things forever. Parents Jim and Mary enjoy a well-earned cuppa together, teenagers do what teenagers do... it's like time travel made possible by words and music instead of mad science.

It's the McCartney and Mescal show, however, with the latter's giddy, 'don’t blow this now' demeanour contrasted by the former's sage and watchful cool. A brief reference to Digital Audio Tape (DAT) delivers one of the otherwise reverent film's funniest and warmest moments, while McCartney also reveals how John Lennon still pops into his head to provide, er, constructive criticism ("Sometimes I get away with it, sometimes he says, "No, it's shit!"")

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