Paul Mescal is opening up about the emotional scenes he filmed for his latest movie, Hamnet.

“Do you know what? This film probably looks heavier on the surface than it was [to shoot],” the actor, 29, exclusively told Us Weekly at the New York screening of the movie at The Whitby Hotel on Friday, November 21.

Mescal continued, “Obviously, there’s heavy scenes that we got to shoot, but there was nothing [I did to unwind]. I don’t have a ritual of going home in the evening and — I probably should, but I don’t. There’s nothing that jumps to my mind.”

Hamnet follows the relationship between William Shakespeare (Mescal) and his wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley) as they fall in love, marry and struggle after the tragic death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet, which leads to the creation of Shakespear

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