Great love can echo across centuries. This seems to be the heart-wrenching truth of Hamnet, the latest film from Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao. Adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's novel of the same name, Hamnet unfolds the little known story of William Shakespeare, his wife, and the love that saw them through times of joy and agony. Beyond that, this critically heralded drama — starring Academy Award nominees Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley — reveals how their story went on to inform one of Shakespeare's most well-known tragedies, Hamlet.

Mashable's UK Editor Shannon Connellan sat down with Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal to delve into what it meant to make a movie with such rich history and profound emotion. For starters, she asked Mescal what it was like to tackle the

See Full Page