Paul Mescal Breaks Down the 'Glorious' Love and 'Heartbreak' of 'Hamnet'

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Paul Mescal discusses the emotional core of 'Hamnet,' explaining how director Chloé Zhao masterfully balances the feelings of love and grief. He argues that the love doesn't end where the grief begins; instead, it increases.

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00:00I love love, I love playing love, and I think there's something, as you said, there's something so, like, glorious

00:05about that first 40 minutes of the film where, I don't know, they feel like curious children to me, Agnes,

00:13but they're just, like, figuring each other out, and it's only because of that love that you really kind of

00:18get that heartbreak towards the second half of the film, and I think it's, Chloe's done an amazing job of,

00:25like, balancing those two feelings and also not isolating them from each other.

00:30That she doesn't see it, it's like, oh, this is where the love ends and the grief begins. If anything,

00:34the love increases as the grief arrives in the film, I think.

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