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‘It’s embarrassing’ (Picture: Rex/BBC)

Normal People star Paul Mescal has opened up on how he was left feeling when a fan told him they’d seen him nude and saved a screenshot.

The actor rose to fame from the BBC series which also starred Daisy Edgar-Jones, adapted from the book of the same name by Sally Rooney.

It was known for its numerous passionate sex scenes, which also included the longest sex scene ever to be played on Irish television.

A huge hit in lockdown, it also had the most sex in a series ever for a BBC programme.

During steamy scenes, Paul agreed to full-frontal nudity and later spoke about feeling ‘objectified’ after it was released, as well as what it was like filming with Daisy.

In a new interview, he recalled one particular negative response he got after viewers saw him naked on screen.

During a night with friends in Ireland, one woman told Paul: ‘I didn’t think the show was any good but I saw your willy and I have a photo!’

Recalling the incident, he told GQ: ‘I remember that was the first time that I was really angry.

‘I was like, “That’s f**king rude!” It’s embarrassing for you, it’s embarrassing for me, it’s embarrassing for my friends and now I have to say no to you.

Paul and Daisy starred as Connell and Marianne (Picture: BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu)

The steamy series included the longest sex scene ever to be played on Irish television (Picture: BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu)

‘But luckily they are the anomaly.’

Earlier this year, Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson gave his thoughts on the controversy surrounding scenes from the series ending up on porn websites, saying it ‘didn’t hurt the actors’.

As well as following Marianna and Connell fall in love, and grow up and apart, Normal People follows the two navigating sex and social dynamics during high school and at university.

Normal People had the most sex in a series ever for a BBC programme (Picture: BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu)

Paul recalled the first time he was ‘really angry’ after a viewer incident (Picture: BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu)

However, a few clips from the more intimate scenes, taken out of context, were distributed on porn sites after the series’ release, but Abrahamson has detailed their quick response to the situation and how the team felt they could defend their work ‘ethically’.

‘I think all of us, as a group, felt very solid with the work and knew that what we’d done was really good and important. We could defend it ethically. I don’t think any of that [the repurposing of footage on porn websites] hurt any of the actors,’ he told RadioTimes.

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‘As a production entity we were straight on it with the broadcasters and streamers, to constantly have anything taken down.’

He added: ‘I think that’s all you can do, otherwise you’re letting the worst people in society determine what you can do because of how they’ll construe it.’

Normal People is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

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