Are you ready for the Summer of Strange Love?

Age Gap Summer

You’re early-40s, hot and had a messy, if quiet, divorce after your husband was caught cheating (with a 25 year-old, naturally). You find yourself in London and at a loose end. Who would you call for a few drinks? A man of your own age with matching amounts of emotional baggage, greying hair and management middle? Or would you ring Paul Mescal, hero of the slutty shorts movement?

and Mescal have — despite meeting during an interview to promote Portman’s film, May December, about a very problematic case of age-gap grooming — obviously an entirely appropriate age gap (and are also diplomacy.