Jessie Buckley has Rihanna to thank for letting her escape into the music.

The Hamnet star credited the Grammy winner for providing the soundtrack to a pivotal scene in the Chloé Zhao -directed historical drama—without even realizing it.

“On our wrap day, Chloé would do these dance takes,” Jessie exclusively told E! News during the film’s Los Angeles premiere at the Academy Museum Nov. 18. “There were 300 extras, all the crew. We were inside the globe, we’d gone [on] this mad journey, and she played Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love.’”

Indeed, while the project—a fictionalized account of William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway ’s grief over their 11-year-old son Hamnet ’s tragic death—takes place in the late 16th century, Jessie compared the atmosphere on set to

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