It is set to be Christmas on the double for Jessie Buckley as she looks forward to celebrating the season with loved ones. Starring alongside her compatriot Paul Mescal in Hamnet, she is the heart and soul of an intimate and emotional drama, told largely through the perspective of her character. About ambition and creativity and love and loss and parenthood and being able to love with all the capacity that they hold inside themselves.”Maggie O’Farrell, Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal and Chloé Zhao at the Irish premiere of Hamnet. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in a scene from ‘Hamnet’. “I have a shamanic teacher — she’s Irish, and I’ve worked with her for over 17 years now,” says Zhao.

Source: Irish Examiner December 24, 2025 10:01 UTC