Ayo Edebiri isn't the only Irish person taking over the internet. Vox takes a look at why everyone loves Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott and Cillian Murphy right now. For Americans, "Irish actors arguably evoke a kind of safe 'exoticness,'" Mary M. Burke, a professor of English at the University of Connecticut, says. “Being native speakers of English with a purportedly cute accent, they are just ‘foreign’ enough for mainstream taste."
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