Best Of: ‘Hamnet’ star Jessie Buckley / Documentarian Morgan Neville
Fresh Air
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Also, documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville tells us about his new documentary, ‘Man on the Run,’ which focuses on Paul McCartney’s life and music after the break-up of The Beatles.
John Powers reviews ‘Kokuho,’ a Japanese film about a gangster’s son who dreams of being a star in Kabuki theater.
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| 0:20.3 | Today, Jesse Buckley, she may win an Oscar a week from |
| 0:23.4 | Sunday for her starring Roland Hamnet. She's already won a Golden Globe. She plays William Shakespeare's |
| 0:29.3 | wife, facing conflicts in their marriage and the death of their son. After portraying a grieving |
| 0:34.7 | mother, Buckley found out she was pregnant. The thing that this story offered me, that brought me into this next chapter of my life as a mother, was tenderness, you know. |
| 0:46.3 | And that was a word and a feeling that I think I didn't know was what I was looking for. |
| 0:52.3 | Also, documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville tells us about his new |
| 0:56.3 | documentary, Man on the Run, which focuses on Paul McCartney's life and music after the breakup of |
| 1:02.5 | the Beatles. And John Powers reviews a Japanese film about a gangster's son who dreams of being a star |
| 1:09.1 | in Kabuki theater. |
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