For anybody looking to worm their way into Paul Mescal’s heart, you might want to listen to him describing his ick in a new video with his All Of Us Strangers co-star, Andrew Scott.

In the video, the Normal People star admitted that people who act 'chill' when turning off the lights to go to bed and run 'up the stairs because they're scared' is his biggest ick.

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He said: 'Do you know what gives me more of an ick, because I think we all do it, is if you were like, "Oh, I'm just gonna go down and turn off the lights." And they're being all chill and then you hear them accelerate up the stairs because they're scared.

'Because I think we'd all do it. But I think if I was trying to impress someone I'd, like, smoothly walk up the stairs, than be dealing with the... yeah'.

It’s not Mescal's only stair-related ick. He also revealed in the video that people who 'slide down [the stairs] on their bum' give him even more of an ick.

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He added: 'That gives me more of the ick, cause it's not as funny. That would give me the ick. It's just a bit weird. And what, you have to sort of laugh along? It's less of a big gesture.'

Mescal and Scott were promoting the release of their latest Andrew Haigh-directed film, All Of Us Strangers, which explores grief, loss and love, is loosely based on the 2004 English adaptation of Strangers, the psychological fiction novel by Japanese author Taichi Yamada originally published in 1987. Mescal was most recently nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for portraying the character of Harry in the film.

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