Overview
- Mescal says he first sensed the film’s promise during rehearsals with Jessie Buckley and felt an early London studio screening matched what they set out to make.
- He describes his take on William Shakespeare as more body-led and traditionally masculine, rejecting the usual cerebral stereotype.
- He says actors have more agency than they expect when they know the projects they want, citing the ability to arrange direct conversations with filmmakers like Chloé Zhao.
- The film adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel from Agnes’s perspective, centering on the loss of her son Hamnet and the later writing of Hamlet.
- Hamnet is slated to debut in UK cinemas on January 9.