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Mendes is one of the producers on \u201cHamnet<\/a>,\u201d which has been nominated for eight Oscars and eleven BAFTAs, including for best picture and best director. The film stars Paul Mescal<\/a> as William Shakespeare<\/a> and Jessie Buckley<\/a> as his wife Agnes, following the couple as they endure the loss of their only son.<\/p>\n Mendes, who is currently in the middle of shooting his four-film \u201cBeatles\u201d extravaganza, which also stars Mescal as Paul McCartney<\/a>, interviewed Zhao<\/a> after the screening, during which he was equally candid about his own experiences as a director.<\/p>\n One of the most \u201ctricky\u201d parts of the job, Mendes confessed, was \u201cdealing with other people\u2019s energy and their needs. You soak up a lot of other people\u2019s energy, their concerns,…<\/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 m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam Mendes and Chloe Zhao shared an emotional moment after a screening of \u201cHamnet\u201d in London on Sunday evening after confronting the \u201cemotional cost\u201d of being a director. Mendes is one of the producers on \u201cHamnet,\u201d which has been nominated for eight Oscars and eleven BAFTAs, including for best picture and best director. The film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284378,"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-2284377","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\/2026\/02\/Sam-Mendes-Chloe-Zhao-Confront-the-\u2018Emotional-Cost-of-Directing.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284377","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=2284377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284379,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284377\/revisions\/2284379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}