Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal are reuniting for a romantic drama
Our favourite Irish acting duo are getting the band back together for Hold on to Your Angels, written and to be directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Benh Zeitlin.
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal will reunite as the joint leads in Benh Zeitlin’s (Beasts of The Southern Wild) new romantic drama, Hold on to Your Angels. The Louisiana-set feature will be introduced to buyers at Cannes later this month, and production is set to kick off in February 2027. Given that both Buckley and Mescal have several irons in the fire at the moment between Jessie’s involvement in Three Incestuous Sisters and Paul stepping into the shoes of McCartney in Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics, we’ve got a lot to look forward to.
Produced by Plan B (Moonlight) with Oscar winner Alex Coco (Anora) under his Rapt Film banner, the film follows Mescal, who plays a fugitive outlaw, and Buckley, a shepherd guiding lost souls. The pair become consumed by a destructive romance against the backdrop of a disappearing bayou community.
Of the project, Zeitlin says: “Hold on to Your Angels is the most impossible love story I’ve ever witnessed — an outlaw romance for the end of America, set on the crumbling edge of South Louisiana. I’ve been dreaming of telling it since its hero, Pam Harper, walked into an audition for Beasts of the Southern Wild seventeen years ago. It’s a love letter to an endangered way of life — and a rallying cry for empathy across a fractured planet.”
According to Deadline, Plan B said: “Benh Zeitlin absolutely stunned us and the world at large with the cosmic sorcery of Beasts of the Southern Wild. With Hold on to Your Angels, Benh has set his powerful mix of intense realism, myth and magic against the large scale of an epic love story. This is a writer-director with a vision for the ages, and we could not be more proud to be by his side to make this film with Jessie and Paul.”
Alex Coco added: “After years of working with filmmakers that explore the overlooked corners of our world, I can recognize Benh Zeitlin as a filmmaker with that rare gift: the ability to reveal profound beauty and humanity in parts of America that seldom find their way onto the silver screen.”
Suffice to say, we’re in for a treat with this one.
Imagery sourced from @maggieofarrellofficial on Instagram, Andres Poveda, and Vanity Fair.
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