Paul Mescal and Ariana Grande’s video interview for Selection’s Actors On Actors collection has been launched – and we’re happy to see that it didn’t take the Depraved actor lengthy to ask her fellow performer about his historical past of musical theatre.

The interview begins with the Gladiator II star voicing how impressed he was with Ariana’s efficiency in Depraved, questioning: “What can’t you do?”

“Coming from you!” she replied, admitting she’d “seen you sing on YouTube”.

Since Paul’s rise to fame in Regular Folks, movies of him performing in group productions of Les Misérables and Phantom Of The Opera have racked up tens of 1000’s of views on YouTube.

“Oh we’re beginning there, are we?” he remarked, with Ariana responding: “I’ve to begin there as a result of… I’m sorry, I’m a musical theatre nerd and I noticed you sing Les Mis.”

“With the dodgy mutton chops?” he requested, earlier than admitting: “I positively share the musical theatre bug, however I really feel like I can’t be the particular person to begin that as a result of we’re speaking about [you in Wicked].”

He recalled: “Phantom Of The Opera was my starting, after which I feel I actually needed to be in musical theatre, to start with. After which I realised that I couldn’t actually dance. In order that avenue was slowly however absolutely taken away from me.

“I simply gravitated extra in the direction of the Phantoms, the Les Mis, the Miss Saigons. After which, realised that I in all probability didn’t have the most effective voice. After which appearing was the avenue that I went down. However I simply love the act of being on stage, and the fusion of appearing and music.”

Later within the interview, Ariana advised Paul: “You declare that you simply don’t assume you’ll be able to dance, but when you are able to do what’s on this movie – I’m telling you! This needs to be a lot tougher than that?”

“Oh I can’t!” he insisted. “There’s proof! Why do you assume I used to be enjoying Javert? Well-known dance breaks!”

Watch the pair’s full interview for your self beneath:

Regardless of Paul’s insistence his voice isn’t “the most effective”, he’s already turned his hand to film musicals as soon as earlier than, sharing the display screen with Melissa Barrera in a contemporary reimagining of Carmen.

He’s additionally capturing a brand new adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Alongside, alongside Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein.

The movie takes place over a variety of many years, and is being filmed as such so the actors age in time with their characters, in an identical useless to the movie Boyhood.