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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lauren Morris

‘Both my sons were cast in Hamnet – I was very honest with them about the life of a child star’

Watching one of your children star in an Oscar-nominated film is an experience that very few people will get, so to see two of them take to the big screen together is almost unheard of. However, that’s become a reality for Coronation Street star Katy Cavanagh – whose sons Jacobi, 12, and Noah, 21, are in Hamnet.

The Chloé Zhao drama, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s book of the same name, is up for eight gongs at Sunday’s Academy Awards, having broken hearts with its portrayal of William Shakespeare and wife Agnes losing their son Hamnet.

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