Paul Mescal didn't have a licence when he first threw his name into the hat for the role of Connell, but his agent told him they weren't going to let that minor detail stand in their way. "My agent was like, 'We are not losing this job over you not being able to drive so I'll tell production that you can and in the meantime, you go off and rattle through as many lessons as you can,'" Mescal told EW.