Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal have been seen dancing up a storm after wrapping up filming on Hamnet, as director Chloe Zhao shared a throwback video from the set revealing how the cast and crew let loose between scenes.

The historical tragedy has received critical acclaim since its release in the UK this month and generated plenty of Oscar buzz, particularly for Jessie, 36, who has already won a Critics’ Choice Award and a Golden Globe.

The film is based on the 2020 novel by Maggie O’Farrell and follows William Shakespeare, played by Paul, and his wife Agnes Hathaway, played by Jessie, navigating their grief following the tragic death of their 11-year-old son.

And Chloe took to her Instagram on Tuesday to reveal how they dealt with the challenging emotions on set, by sharing a video of the cast and crew dancing joyously together to Rihanna’s We Found Love.

The Oscar winner revealed that after spending so much time filming scenes tackling such a heavy and tragic subject matter, the cast and crew would ‘release’ their emotions by coming together to dance. 

The clip saw Paul, 29, and Jessie carrying their 12-year-old co-star Jacobi Jupe, who plays their son Hamnet in the film, out onto the stage of the replica Globe Theatre to huge cheers.

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal have been seen dancing up a storm after wrapping up filming on Hamnet, as director Chloe Zhao shared a throwback video from the set revealing how the cast and crew let loose between scenes

The historical tragedy has received critical acclaim since its release in the UK this month and generated plenty of Oscar buzz, particularly for Jessie, 36, who has already won a Critics’ Choice Award and a Golden Globe

The film is based on the 2020 novel by Maggie O’Farrell and follows William Shakespeare, played by Paul, and his wife Agnes Hathaway, played by Jessie, navigating their grief following the tragic death of their 11-year-old son (Jessie seen in film)

Paul whirled Jacobi around the stage as their fellow stars, including Joe Alwyn came out to join in on the jubilant celebration.

They immediately led everyone into a raucous dance while still clad in their 16th century costumes, with the crew quickly joining in and Chloe seen busting a move at the front of the crowd.

In a lengthy caption, the filmmaker explained how movement was important for feeling our emotions without ‘storing them in our bodies’ and branded the group dances a ‘shared catharsis’ that helped everyone on the set decompress.

Explaining the video was their final dance take after shooting had wrapped, she urged fans to follow suit and share their own videos, saying she hoped they had done Shakespeare proud and giving a shout out to Rihanna.

She penned: ‘After traveling with Hamnet for months, meeting so many of you in person and watching online audience reactions from around the world, our hearts are FULL. We made the film for you, so we thank you for keeping your hearts open and for feeling so deeply.

‘Some of you have asked me what to do with all the emotions and how my cast and crew release them on set and the answer is: Dance Takes! ✨

‘We believe emotion is energy in motion. So to discharge, we move, we breathe, we make sound and we dance, so we are never too scared to feel our rawest emotions and we don’t store them in our bodies.

‘We want to share moments from our final Dance Take with you, on our last day in the Globe Theatre. It was a release that turned everything we’d been holding into joy, into shared catharsis.’

‘If it moves you, join us! Dance with us. Share your version with us’ encouraged Chloe. ‘However it looks, wherever you are. We can hold together, in community, what is too hard to hold on our own.

And Chloe took to her Instagram on Tuesday to reveal how they dealt with the challenging emotions on set, by sharing a video of the cast and crew dancing joyously together to Rihanna’s We Found Love

The Oscar winner (seen) revealed that after spending so much time filming scenes tackling such a heavy and tragic subject matter, the cast and crew would ‘release’ their emotions by coming together to dance

The clip saw Paul, 29, and Jessie carrying their 12-year-old co-star Jacobi Jupe, who plays their son Hamnet in the film, out onto the stage of the replica Globe Theatre to huge cheers

Paul whirled Jacobi around the stage as their fellow stars, including Joe Alwyn (seen) came out to join in on the jubilant celebration

They immediately led everyone into a raucous dance while still clad in their 16th century costumes, with the crew quickly joining in and Chloe seen busting a move at the front of the crowd

In a lengthy caption, the filmmaker explained how movement was important for feeling our emotions without ‘storing them in our bodies’ and branded the group dances a ‘shared catharsis’ that helped everyone on the set decompress

‘This is why Shakespeare wrote his plays and why he brought people together in the Globe. We hope we made him proud! ☺️❤️ ps: thank you always @badgalriri’.

Jessie previously detailed the intense preparation she and Paul had to undertake before filming the acclaimed film – including a tantric intimacy workshop.

She revealed how she had landed the role of Agnes, recalling how Chloe had ‘laser beamed’ towards her at a 2022 film festival to insist that Jessie was the only actress she was considering for the part.

Next up was an ‘intuitive and sexy and curious’ chemistry read with Paul in London, but the lead stars were soon whisked away from one another to work on separate projects.

In order to fast track their intimacy with one another and allow them to connect ‘on a bodily level’ before filming commenced, Chloe had her leads take part in a tantric workshop, alongside nights out dancing to Abba at a New York club.

During the workshop the actors had to pretend to ‘be’ a lingam (a phallic object symbolising divine generative energy)and yoni (a representation of the female genitalia).

‘The first three minutes of it were excruciatingly embarrassing,’ Jessie told British Vogue, but after that, ‘You’re like: “We’ve been a penis and a vagina in front of each other, so let’s just go.”‘

The workshop worked, with critics raving about their onscreen chemistry whilst the pair have been equally effusive in their real life admiration for one another.

Jessie previously detailed the intense preparation she and Paul had to undertake before filming the acclaimed film – including a tantric intimacy workshop (seen together in film) 

In order to fast track their intimacy with one another and allow them to connect ‘on a bodily level’ before filming commenced, Chloe had her leads take part in a tantric workshop, alongside nights out dancing to Abba at a New York club (seen this month) 

Paul told Vogue that Jessie is ‘the person I’d like to be when I grow up, in terms of her confidence in her artistry [and] her lack of interest in the shiny things that this career can offer people. She’s a mountain of a human being.’

Off screen Jessie has been married to her mental health worker husband Freddie for two years, after planning their wedding at home in the garden of their Norfolk cottage in just seven weeks.

They welcomed their first child, a daughter, last summer after Jessie fell pregnant just days after wrapping Hamnet.

She credits her role as Agnes with inducing her to become a mother, telling Vogue how she borrowed a prosthetic belly from production just ‘to feel the weight of it’, whilst pottering around her garden.

The actress explained how the harrowing storyline of Hamnet tapped a ‘deep need’ in her to ‘find’ her own.

While she told The New York Times’ Modern Love podcast: ‘I’m not surprised I got pregnant a week after I finished filming because I had coaxed… it was also quite intense to have that need while I was in this place of absolute mother and it not be a real thing yet.’ 

She credits her role as Agnes with inducing her to become a mother, falling pregnant with her daughter just days after wrapping Hamnet (pictured last year)

Jessie continued: ‘There was moments where it broke my heart because I was living this altered world, where I was absolutely that. Well, just be patient…

‘I think when I was filming Hamnet, I deeply wanted to become a mother myself.

‘And it was such a gift to move through this woman and her motherhood and her love and her loss before I became a mother myself.

‘And I think even getting pregnant and throughout my pregnancy and how I was thinking about what kind of birth I wanted and how I would be autonomous in choosing that as much as I could was very empowering.’