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It\u2019s late August and the Chinese director \u2014 renowned for her Oscar-winning Nomadland<\/a> (2020) with Frances McDormand<\/a> \u2014 is talking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> over Zoom about re-entering the film world with an adaptation of Maggie O\u2019Farrell<\/a>\u2019s novel Hamnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Sept. 7, the movie had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where Zhao<\/a>, also helmer of the MCU\u2019s Eternals<\/a> (2021) presented the film alongside the young, white-hot talents Paul Mescal<\/a> and Jessie Buckley<\/a> to rave reviews.<\/p>\n Hamnet, co-written by Zhao and O\u2019Farrell, follows a fictional story of love and loss. It centers on the life of William Shakespeare<\/a> (Mescal) and his wife Agnes (Buckley<\/a>) after the death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet. It births the English playwright\u2019s celebrated tragedy Hamlet<\/a>, a work Zhao describes as \u201cone of the greatest pieces of literature in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI can never quite pinpoint why I choose stories,\u201d muses Chlo\u00e9 Zhao. \u201cI think they choose me.\u201d It\u2019s late August and the Chinese director \u2014 renowned for her Oscar-winning Nomadland (2020) with Frances McDormand \u2014 is talking to The Hollywood Reporter over Zoom about re-entering the film world with an adaptation of Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s novel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2010022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2010021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chloe-Zhao-on-Why-She-Took-a-Four-Year-Break.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}