The accidental Hollywood hero! As Gladiator star Paul Mescal packs out cinemas, his ex-teachers tell the Mail he was a 'jock' obsessed with football - until he was forced to audition for a school production of Phantom Of The Opera... | Daily Mail Online

For a start, Paul Mescal makes women everywhere go dizzy: that handsome face with its aquiline nose and hooded blue eyes, his honed physique and brand of sensitive masculinity.