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\nJessie Buckley shared some insight into her experience participating in a tantric workshop with Hamnet costar Paul MescalMescal and Buckley portray William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, in the movie, an adaptation of author Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same nameBuckley won Best Actress for her role in Hamnet at the 31st Critics Choice Awards<\/p>\n
Jessie Buckley<\/a> is opening up about the tantric workshop she and Paul Mescal<\/a> completed to prep for their movie, Hamnet<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Mescal, 29, and Buckley, 36, costar as William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, in the new movie, an adaptation of author Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name. While both actors spoke with British Vogue<\/a> for an article published Tuesday, Jan. 6, Mescal recalled that his chemistry read with his costar was “intuitive and sexy and curious,” while Buckley said that the actors spent time going to “a club called Joyface in the East Village and [dancing] to Abba” in New York City while they were both in town filming other projects.<\/p>\n Buckley also said that their director Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/a> (Nomadland) also had the actors complete a workshop in which they pretended to embody a lingam and yoni, which represent (both figuratively and literally) human reproductive organs in tantric practices. (Tantra is a philosophy that originated in India as far back as the sixth century and is closely linked to yoga practices and sexuality, according to the British Museum<\/a>.)<\/p>\n “The first three minutes of it were excruciatingly embarrassing,\u201d Buckley told the outlet. \u201cYou\u2019re like: \u2018We\u2019ve been a penis and a vagina in front of each other, so let\u2019s just go.’ ”\n<\/p>\n Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley on the set of ‘Hamnet’.<\/p>\n Agata Grzybowska \/ FOCUS FEATURES<\/p>\n Zhao, 43, previously told PEOPLE at Hamnet’s November premiere in N.Y.C. that she has been studying tantra and working with a tantric teacher in recent years.\u00a0“It’s about how to experience life through more of an embodied place instead of one’s mind and I think there are versions of this they would do in acting school just [with] different names, you know,” she said at the time.\n<\/p>\n “This particular workshop is a polarity workshop and it is about giving [a] safe container for Paul and Jesse to embody their gendered polarity to the extreme, which might be uncomfortable in other settings, but it’s about activating that energy \u2014 the masculine and feminine in them to the extreme and see how they play with each other,” she explained.\n<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in ‘Hamnet’.<\/p>\n Agata Grzybowska \/ FOCUS FEATURES<\/p>\n “It’s also about asking Paul to contain all the range of chaotic expression that Jesse can can possibly express contained in a safe space,” Zhao added. “So when the container is strong, the water will then calm down and go deep. It was beautiful to see that play out between the two of them at the beginning.”<\/p>\n Buckley won Best Actress at the Critics Choice Awards<\/a> for her role in Hamnet on Sunday, Jan. 4.\u00a0At the upcoming Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11, she is nominated<\/a> in the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture \u2013 Drama category alongside Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Julia Roberts (After the Hunt), Tessa Thompson (Hedda) and Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby).\n<\/p>\n The actress will hit the big screen again this spring in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new movie, The Bride!, which releases March 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Jessie Buckley shared some insight into her experience participating in a tantric workshop with Hamnet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-220343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}