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Paul Mescal’s Agenda: Another Oscar Season, Four Beatles Movies, and 20 Years of ‘Merrily We Roll Along’

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Ask Paul Mescal about playing Paul McCartney in the first Beatles movie for Sam Mendes, currently filming at Bovington Airfield Studios outside London, and his face lights up. He’s in Los Angeles for a stretch to do promotion for Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” around the Palm Springs Awards Gala, Critics Choice Awards (where the “Hamnet” team celebrated the inevitable win for Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare), and the Golden Globes this Sunday. Mescal…

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In less than five years, he has moved from the British independent cinema to the Hollywood superstar. In 2026, he plays Shakespeare in Chloé Zhao's new film, and in 2028 he will be Paul McCartney in the tetralogy of Sam Mendes dedicated to the Beatles. Multiplying projects where he is not expected is the method that the actor, shy and discreet, found to escape the labels of cinema and celebrity.

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IndieWire broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
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