Paul Mescal took a break from filming his new Beatles movie – part of a four-pack on each Beatle, all directed by Sam Mendes – to talk about the buzzy year-end awards entry, “Hamnet” where he plays William Shakespeare, no less.

What’s wild is Mescal, 29, really does resemble Paul McCartney, the Beatle he’s playing. It’s not just the hair, which is minus Beatle bangs, it’s the suggestion. A tribute to the alchemy that great actors can sometimes manage as they transform.

“Hamnet,” adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 speculative novel, wonders how the death of Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, affected his marriage to Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and produced his tragedy “Hamlet.”

As filming began director Chloé Zhao — one of three women to win the Best Director Oscar (for “Nomadland”) — announce

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