Category: Interviews
‘I’d rather be in the wild chasing animals than going to Hollywood parties’: Taylor Kitsch on fame, flops and Friday Night Lights | Movies
There is a moment in every actor’s career when they must confront their early dreams and their present reality. For Taylor Kitsch, that reckoning has [...]
The secret life of a child star: how Alyson Stoner survived stalkers, starvation and sexualisation | Television
When Alyson Stoner was nine, a wardrobe assistant on the set of a TV show noticed the child actor’s murky leg-hair and told Stoner it was “dirty and [...]
‘I’m not a huge CGI guy’: Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash on remaking trash classic Deathstalker | Movies
Welcome to the celluloid jungle. Guitar legend and Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash is getting into movies, producing a “requel” of the 1983 cult Roger Cor [...]
‘We’re in a hearty relationship!’ Alison Brie and Dave Franco on gruesome body horror Together | Movies
Dave Franco is showing me his wounds: a bloody finger, a grazed foot, a palm full of blisters. On his phone, the actor zooms in on the photo collage [...]
‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty | Movies
It’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjami [...]
‘I knew my job was to fulfil a man’s fantasy’: Elizabeth McGovern on Downton, early fame and co-starring with Brad Pitt | Movies
For the maudlin among us, the final Downton Abbey film should perhaps come with a warning. Everything in it is tinged with wistfulness – a goodbye to [...]
‘I was too good’: Sharon Stone on stardom, family secrets, sexual abuse – and her comeback after a stroke | Sharon Stone
A couple of days before our interview, in tardy July, Sharon Stone announced on Instagram that her mother had died. When we meet over video link, I e [...]
‘Alien is a warning, isn’t it?’: Essie Davis on Alien: Earth and Tasmania’s ecological crisis | Television
Essie Davis didn’t watch much horror growing up in Tasmania; the 55-year-old actor can still bitterly recall the moment when, aged four, she was left [...]
‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare | Movies
Ari Aster’s fresh movie, Eddington, pits Joaquin Phoenix against Pedro Pascal as men with conflicting takes on how to get their compact town through [...]
‘We’re drawn to complicated people, not heroes’: Ashley Zukerman on Succession, Silo and playing ‘punchable men’ | Australian film
Ashley Zukerman is that guy: you’ll know him from something and you’ll have enjoyed him in it. It might be Nate Sofrelli from Succession, the politic [...]