“The first image in my head was a giant beating heart muscle, throbbing and pulsing with blood,” says “ Hamnet ” costume designer Malgosia Turzanska .

Red becomes the main color palette for Jessie Buckley’s Agnes.

Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, “Hamnet,” now playing in theaters, tells the story of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his wife, Agnes (Jessie Buckley) as they grieve the loss of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet. The film follows the couple as they attempt to reconcile the loss of their child, and how William Shakespeare began to write his play “Hamlet.” Directed by Chloe Zhao, it is a story of love and loss.

Turzanska says when she first met Zhao, there was no script. The two were working off the book. “We talked about blood, menstrual blood, pumping blood, dryi

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