Golden Globes 2026 nominations: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal and Maggie O’Farrell receive nods for Hamnet
How Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal unlocked the emotional power of ‘Hamnet’
During the emotionally wrecking final scene of Hamnet, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal had an issue.
“There were moments where the camera was obstructing us,” Buckley said. “We were like, ‘No, we have to see each other’.”Mescal added: “And then the minute we did see each other, it was like, ‘Oh, no’. What a glorious thing.”In Hamnet, Chloe Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s prize-winning 2020 novel, Mescal plays William Shakespeare and Buckley his wife, Agnes. It’s a fictional, speculative drama with basis in historical fact. One of the couple’s three children, Hamnet, died in 1596 at the age of 11. Within a handful of years, Hamlet would premiere at the Globe Theatre. The names, scholars have noted, were essentially interchangeable in 16th-century England.
