
During the emotionally wrecking final scene of Hamnet, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal had an issue.
“There were moments where the camera was obstructing us,” Buckley recalls. “We were like: ‘No, we have to see each other.’
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During the emotionally wrecking final scene of Hamnet, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal had an issue.
“There were moments where the camera was obstructing us,” Buckley recalls. “We were like: ‘No, we have to see each other.’
“And then the minute we did see each other, it was like ‘Oh, no,’” Mescal says, laughing. “What a glorious thing.”
Zhao’s film imagines the possible connection between the death of Shakespeare’s son and the birth of one of the playwright’s greatest works. It is a portrait of a marriage, in grief and literary greatness. In many ways, it is also a movie about seeing and being seen.