We may be in the final stretch of 2025 movie releases , but there’s quite a few great films to seek out, like Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet . The adaptation of the novel of the same name imagines what it was like for William Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway , to lose their son, Hamnet, and how it influenced the creation of his famed tragedy, Hamlet . During CinemaBlend’s Hamnet interviews , Paul Mescal shared his perspective of the film. While it’s not what I expected him to highlight, it has me seeing the film in an even greater light.

Paul Mescal gives an especially great performance as William Shakespeare when he was first getting his start as a playwright. While talking to our own Hannah Saulic, here’s what he said about his favorite part of the role:

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