On top of being a widely heralded actor, Paul Mescal has become an internet boyfriend through an array of hunky, heartbreaking performances in everything from Aftersun and Normal People to All of Us Strangers and Gladiator II. The Irish actor is not letting up on us. This winter, he appears in the romantic drama The History of Sound opposite Challengers' Josh O'Connor, and then comes Hamnet, where Mescal offers us a take on William Shakespeare that is both smoldering and deeply sad. So have tissues at the ready.

Hamnet stars Mescal as the legendary playwright. But far from focusing on Shakepeare's heady times as the toast of the Globe theatre, London, and the queen herself, this drama focuses on his family, and in particular, the personal tragedy that inspired him to write Hamlet: the dea

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