Paul Mescal

Yes, he was so miscast for this. When he is giving those grandiose fight speeches that are supposed to pump the audience up he has no power, it felt detached and unnatural. More on reddit.com

He’s better off doing those sad roles than attempting to be a mainstream leading man like what he tried to do in Gladiator. He didn’t have the charisma for it. Sad boys tho, he’s very good at. More on reddit.com

This quote of Paul's acting from Bilge Ebiri's Hamnet review has stuck with me since it was published (spoilers): We sometimes forget what a phenomenal actor Mescal is. This is probably because he hasn’t made a good action hero yet, which is a scarlet letter in our day and age. But also, we love to quantify, classify, and dilute complicated performers into simple impressions; despite the fact that he’s only been acting in movies for five years, we think we already know what he’s all about. But he’s not really the softboi that’s been memed to meaninglessness. With his unexpected choices in both cadence and affect, he’s something closer to a young Christopher Walken. In Hamnet, his response at the first sight of his dead son represents some of the best acting I’ve ever seen; it’s matched later when he interrupts a rehearsal of Hamlet’s “Get thee to a nunnery” speech and delivers it himself with such snarling self-loathing (“I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not born me!”) that he instantly and convincingly reinterprets the world’s most famous play before our very eyes. Agnes accuses Will of not grieving enough, but Mescal makes sure we see that oceans of pain lie beneath his hesitancy: He is Hamlet. More on reddit.com

Makes a lot of sense after everything the happened with Phoebe Bridgers. More on reddit.com