{"id":18756,"date":"2025-12-11T20:04:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18756"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:04:34","slug":"in-chloe-zhaos-hamnet-jessie-buckley-and-paul-mescal-went-on-an-emotional-epic-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18756","title":{"rendered":"In Chloe Zhao\u2019s Hamnet, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal went on an emotional \u2018epic journey\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/09\/31f85f98-5ced-40f2-8b59-e125b40b35ec_84fd5e13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During the emotionally wrecking final scene of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Hamnet<\/em>, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal had an issue.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere were moments where the camera was obstructing us,\u201d Buckley recalls. \u201cWe were like: \u2018No, we have to see each other.\u2019<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAnd then the minute we did see each other, it was like \u2018Oh, no,\u2019\u201d Mescal says, laughing. \u201cWhat a glorious thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">One of the couple\u2019s three children, Hamnet, died in 1596 at the age of 11. Within a handful of years, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Hamlet<\/em> would premiere at <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">the Globe Theatre<\/span> in London. The names, scholars have noted, were essentially interchangeable in 16th-century England.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhao\u2019s film imagines the possible connection between the death of Shakespeare\u2019s son and the birth of one of the playwright\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3335726\/chloe-zhaos-hamnet-jessie-buckley-and-paul-mescal-went-emotional-epic-journey?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the emotionally wrecking final scene of Hamnet, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal had an issue. \u201cThere were moments where the camera was obstructing us,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12499,12495,1969,320,12497,12498,4303,12500,9082,12496],"class_list":["post-18756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-buckley","tag-chloe","tag-emotional","tag-epic","tag-hamnet","tag-jessie","tag-journey","tag-mescal","tag-paul","tag-zhaos","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}