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PERFECT STRANGERS

photographer JASON HETHERINGTON @jasonhetheringtonstudio

photographer’s assistants LIV WAGNER @livrw_

digital tech ALFIE BUNGAY @alfie_bungay

Andrew Scott stylist WARREN ALFIE BAKER @warrenalfiebaker

Andrew Scott grooming KC FEE @kcfee

Paul Mescal stylist FELICITY KAY @felicitykay

Paul Mescal grooming JOSH KNIGHT @knightjosh

location LINE 204 STUDIOS @line204

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are no strangers when it comes to the “internet boyfriend” phenomenon — a term used to describe a collective crush by social media users. And they are perfectly fine with being in a league that includes Timothée Chalamet, Pedro Pascal, and Oscar Isaac.

“It’s a mark of respect,” Mescal says on a warm November afternoon in Los Angeles during their photo shoot, shortly after the pair posed together and cracked inside jokes like, well, actual boyfriends might. The 27-year-old says that “to be admired for your work is a great privilege, and to move people, it’s an amazing thing to be able to say.” (Mescal, for his part, says he has “a star] Harris Dickinson.”)

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