Jessie Buckley is having a dramatic few days. Backstage at the Oscars, the first Irish woman ever to win Best Actress is clutching her weighty award in both hands and thinking about a milestone of another kind entirely. “My daughter got her first tooth this week,” says the 36-year-old, on what is by coincidence her first Mother’s Day as a parent. “It feels like some kind of crazy alchemy that all of these things are colliding on a day like today.”
Buckley got pregnant a week after she finished filming Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s heartwrenching drama about William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes grappling with the death of their young son. She saw the finished film for the first time eight months later, so it’s hardly surprising she’s finding tonight highly emotional. Frankly, she’s not the only one.
