‘Begging my boyfriend to get one’: Paul Mescal inspires yet another fashion craze with Hamnet earring

Hamnet’s costume designer says the tiny earring that Paul Mescal wears was a ‘carefully chosen detail’. Photograph: Agata Grzybowska/AP

While Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet has been nominated for eight Academy Awards including best picture, for many it is a tiny silver hoop earring worn by Paul Mescal in his portrayal of William Shakespeare that steals the show. Worn in his left ear lobe, the barely there hoop has people fixated online.

“Begging my boyfriend to get a tiny hoop earring too,” reads one post dedicated to the accessory. “I cried for over half of Hamnet, but Paul Mescal’s slutty little earring made me feel conflicted,” reads another.