Paul Mescal is not courting the immediate comparisons that have been made between his new film with Josh O’Connor, and Brokeback Mountain. The Oscar nominee and his co-star play gay lovers in New England in the late 1910s, music students at a conservatory together before America’s draft for World War One separates them.

Oscar-winning movie director Ang Lee has spoken to Deadline about how he contemplated retirement before being persuaded to make Brokeback Mountain. The iconic movie celebrates its 20th anniversary this month and will enjoy a limited theatrical run again this June.

Michelle Williams reminisced on her relationship with late ex Heath Ledger—with whom she shares daughter Matilda Ledger, 19—before the Brokeback Mountain star died from an accidental overdose in 2008.