26 h. ago Malachi Kirby: ‘Forest Whitaker held me. The cameras were off but I was shaking’

After roles in everything from ‘EastEnders’ to ‘Black Mirror’, the actor is now going head-to-head with Stephen Graham in the second round of ‘A Thousand Blows’. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about channelling trauma, on-set therapists, and his funny side

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39 h. ago Paul Mescal will do his own singing in upcoming Beatles biopic: ‘It has really lit a fire’

‘I’ve learned so much,’ says the Irish actor as he prepares to play Paul McCartney

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40 h. ago ‘She will go down as one of the best’: the rise of Jessie Buckley

From talent shows to the big screen, the actor’s performance in Hamnet has made her a leading awards contenderHamnet, Chloé Zhao’s film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel about William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes (or Anne) Hathaway, is a tender meditation on love and grief. Charting the couple’s anguish over the death of their 11-year-old son – said to have inspired the play Hamlet – it has moved audiences to tears and united critics in their praise.The film’s emotional force is carried by the Irish actor and singer Jessie Buckley, who portrays Hathaway (opposite Paul Mescal’s Shakespeare) with a rawness and intimacy that has already earned her a Critics’ Circle award for best actress, and marked her out as a leading contender for the Golden Globes, Baftas and Oscars. The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw called her “unselfconsciously beguiling”, while Rolling Stone predicted audiences “will be talking about Jessie Buckley’s performance for years”. Continue rea...

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41 h. ago Paul Mescal reveals he will sing as Paul McCartney in Beatles films

The Hamnet actor will appear as the Beatles star in four films directed by Sir Sam Mendes.

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42 h. ago Paul Mescal on why he's 'bored' of his 'sad' image and the cruel comments that keep him off Instagram

The Irish actor also revealed why he feels ‘nervous’ about turning 30 next month

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45 h. ago Paul Mescal reveals he's started writing his own music after filming the Beatles biopic and shares how Paul McCartney reacted to learning the Irish actor would be playing him

He plays McCartney in the four-part film series, alongside Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.

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50 h. ago Hamnet felt like a 'sure thing' says Scottish actor who performed alongside Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal

Hamnet will be released on Friday

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67 h. ago Stephen Merchant gives a rare insight into his romance with stunning actress girlfriend Mircea Monroe

Stephen Merchant has given a rare insight into his romance with his girlfriend Mircea Monroe.

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3 d. ago Even Republicans aren’t onboard with Trump’s Greenland saber rattling

Analysis: Mike Johnson says nobody in Congress is talking about military action. Thom Tillis is calling Stephen Miller’s comments ‘amateur hour,’ Eric Garcia reports from Capitol Hill

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4 d. ago Paul Mescal addresses claims he’s stepping back from acting until 2028

The in-demand Irish actor prompted speculation after saying audiences would ‘get a break’ from seeing him over the next two years

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4 d. ago Hamnet review: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley enthral in Shakespeare tearjerker

Chloé Zhao’s clever adaptation grounds the Bard’s backstory in love, loss and the natural world

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5 d. ago Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy

Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama‘The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ” This is Francis Bacon’s essay Of Parents and Children; maybe they were more secret in his day than ours. This kind of secrecy and revelation is part of Chloé Zhao’s deeply felt romantic fantasy about the origin of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. It locates the play’s beginning in the imagined anguish of Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (or Anne) Hathaway at the death of their son Hamnet at the age of 11 in 1596, a few years before the play’s first performance.The nearness of the names is not supposed to be some monumental Freudian slip; there is linguistic evidence that the two could be used interchangeably. The movie is inspired by Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel of the same name – Zhao co-wrote the screenplay with O’Farrell – as well as the 2004 essay T...

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5 d. ago Jessie Buckley sets pulses racing with comment about Paul Mescal at Critics Choice Awards

Irish actors co-star in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ adaptation

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5 d. ago Jessie Buckley makes Paul Mescal cry with Critics Choice speech: ‘I could drink you like water’

Paul Mescal became emotional during Jessie Buckley’s Critics Choice Awards speech, where she paid tribute to her Hamnet co-star.

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6 d. ago Jessie Buckley makes Paul Mescal cry as she showers her Hamnet co

Jessie Buckley had a night to remember on Sunday, scooping a surprise win at the star-studded Critics Choice Awards.

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6 d. ago Emmerdale's Danny Miller flooded with support as he shares emotional marriage update

Away from ITV soap Emmerdale, actor Danny Miller is married to his wife Steph, and they share three children together

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6 d. ago ‘Women have to fight for what they want’: UK campaigner’s 60

Diane Munday helped secure legal terminations in 1967 and, aged 94, is still calling for wider reproductive rightsWhen the 1967 Abortion Act cleared parliament, marking one of the most significant steps forward for women’s rights in history, Diane Munday was among the campaigners raising a glass of champagne on the terrace of the House of Commons.“I’m only drinking a half a glass,” she told her colleagues at the time, “because the job is only half done.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Adolescence scoops FOUR Critics Choice Awards as teenage star Owen Cooper, 16, wins Best Supporting Actor gong alongside winners Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty

Adolescence cleaned up once again as awards season kicked off at the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

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7 d. ago Coronation Street legend addresses Ozempic claims after dramatic transformation

A Coronation Street icon has addressed rumours that she has been using weight loss jabs, insisting her physique is down to just two things

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7 d. ago Hamnet star EMILY WATSON discusses growing up in a 'religious sect', working with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, and the role she regrets turning down

After a 30-year career EMILY WATSON has landed a starring role in the most talked-about film of 2026, Hamnet. She tells Richard Godwin about co-star Paul Mescal

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