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Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal to Lead Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Hold On to Your Angels’ for 2027 Shoot

The pairing reunites the Hamnet leads under Benh Zeitlin with Plan B producing.

Overview

  • The casting, which was announced Friday, teams Buckley and Mescal in Zeitlin’s dark love story set in southern Louisiana.
  • The film is described in trade notices as an outlaw romance about two marginalized people in a decaying bayou community.
  • Plan B Entertainment, Brad Pitt’s company, is producing the project, with producer Alex Coco also attached.
  • Principal photography is planned to begin in February 2027, with the project now in early pre-production.
  • Buckley recently won the best actress Oscar for Hamnet after co-starring with Mescal, and Zeitlin broke out with the 2012 drama Beasts of the Southern Wild.