HAMNET Star Jessie Buckley Covers ELLE Magazine’s 2025 ‘Women in Hollywood’ Issue

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HAMNET star Jessie Buckley covers ELLE magazine’s 2025 ‘Women in Hollywood’ issue photographed by Nathaniel Goldberg and styled by Alex White.

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Jessie Buckley Is Stripping Away the Artifice

In HAMNET, the chameleonic actress delivers an unvarnished portrayal of grief.

Jessie on playing opposite Paul Mescal in HAMNET: “Sometimes you just have great chemistry with somebody on set, which allowed us to go wherever we needed to go. As friends, we knew we could hold all of that and we did. And more than any male co-star I’ve had, it was the fullest version of what that was.”

Jessie on what the movie has to say about grief and love: “I love love. Love is worth it. What else are you going to do? Lock yourself away? I think you’ve got to live. HAMNET, even though he dies, lives on. Shakespeare has made something immortal in some way and created a way for this story, this son, this thing that happened in his life to be bigger than the moment. Maybe we have to live like that.”

Jessie on working with female directors: “It’s not been a conscious priority. The material has been the most interesting. I have been seismically changed by women’s singular language as directors. When I have read the scripts that they’ve sent me, I recognize someone that I hope to have known and met at some point in my life. The questions and the provocations and the characters—and the understanding of what it is to be a full life force, the complex spectrum of colors of a woman—is something that they have seeded in all of their movies. It’s in Chloé Zhao’s NOMADLAND, in Sarah Polley’s documentary STORIES WE TELL. They’re full. And I think the reason why I keep working with female directors is because they want the full story.”

Editor-in-chief: Nina Garcia
Photographer: Nathaniel Goldberg
Stylist: Alex White
Writer: Véronique Hyland
Hair: Stéphane Lancien for L’Oréal Paris
Makeup: Wendy Rowe at The Wall Group
Manicure: Christina Conrad at Callisté Agency

[Photo Credit: Nathaniel Goldberg for ELLE Magazine]

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