Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet has been making audience sob for the last few weeks. But the more we talk about it, the weirder people get. Basically, people can’t just “dislike” it. They have to make it a whole “thing” instead.
Hamnet is based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell and tells the fictional history of Agnes and her life with William Shakespeare. Jessie Buckley plays Agnes (or Anne Hathaway) in the 2025 film with Paul Mescal taking on Shakespeare. And it details the short life of Agnes and Shakespeare’s young son, Hamnet (played by Jacobi Jupe).
