Paul Mescal was spotted passionately kissing his co-star Jessie Buckley on Wednesday as they made their first appearance on set for filming of their new drama Hamnet.
The 28-year-old actor, who plays the young William Shakespeare in a film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet, was filmed grabbing the 34-year-old actresses by the face as they kissed in the street.
The couple looked emotional in scenes that saw them hugging two small children and packing on the PDA, before Paul decided to leave his family.
Paul wore a gray shirt and waistcoat, tucked into navy blue trousers and knee-high leather boots.
He was seen beaming and rubbing his face as he walked away from his family carrying a large backpack.
Paul Mescal was caught in a passionate kiss with co-star Jessie Buckley on Wednesday when they first appeared on set filming their new drama Hamnet.
The actor, 28, was seen grabbing the actress, 34, by the face as they kissed on the street
Meanwhile, Jessie, who plays Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in the drama, was seen wearing a long, red-and-orange dress.
She beamed as she watched Paul hug the two children and then kiss one girl’s head.
Paul and Jessie seemed in good spirits as they filmed on the vintage set, which is set in the Elizabethan era.
The new drama, due out in 2025, will center on Shakespeare’s wife’s struggle with the loss of their 11-year-old son Hamnet to the plague.
The historical fiction novel, a New York Times bestseller, describes the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and moving story.
Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Fiction Prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was nominated for the Walter Scott Prize and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Hera Pictures’ Liza Marshall and Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes are producing the adaptation on behalf of Neal Street, who co-produced the Oscar-winning World War I film 1917 with Amblin.
The Normal People star will play a young William Shakespeare in the film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet
Speaking to Vogue while promoting his film All of Us Strangers, Paul called the novel Hamnet “devastating.”
He said, ‘I can’t wait. If I told a younger version of myself that this would be [shooting] ‘I wouldn’t believe it this year.’
Paul and Jessie co-starred in the 2021 Netflix film The Lost Daughter, but did not share screen time. He said of Jessie, “I think she’s one of our current greats.”