Category: Interviews
The year of Domhnall Gleeson: ‘No one talks about actors’ dedication. But I had a perm for five months!’ | Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson has got so much up-to-date stuff coming up, someone recently joked that this was the “summer of Domhnall”. Now the phrase is all ove [...]
‘I don’t care if I look good’: French heartthrob Louis Garrel on fashion, fatherhood and his radically dorky recent role | Film
‘Even though I’ve been working in film for over 20 years, I still have this desire to look stunning on screen,” says Louis Garrel, on a video call fr [...]
‘It’s the story of what happens when the music stops’: bringing tormented jazz legend Bill Evans to life | Film
In 1997, Grant Gee directed the video for Radiohead’s single No Surprises, a four-minute film that featured Thom Yorke miming the song inside a water [...]
Robert Carlyle: ‘When we did The Full Monty strip, the reaction from the crowd was terrifying’ | Film
You’re stranded on a lifeboat with Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Keith Allen and Irvine Wel [...]
Nigel Havers: ‘My biggest disappointment? Not playing James Bond’ | Life and style
Born in London, Nigel Havers, 74, was Bafta-nominated for his 1981 role in Chariots of Fire. His other films include A Passage to India and Empire of [...]
‘We’re barely above porn’: why would a film-maker choose to make a deliberately bad ‘mockbuster’? | Film
Directors don’t tend to appreciate having their films eviscerated by critics. And us critics, well practised in lobbing proverbial grenades from the [...]
‘It is the riskiest film I’ve ever made’: Pedro Almodóvar on being the villain in his own movie | Film
Black sunglasses indoors and a tufty cloud of cotton-wool hair: it can only be Pedro Almodóvar, bourgeois arthouse darling nonpareil and master of ev [...]
‘I love provocative stories’: producer Christine Vachon on fighting for her ‘offensive’ movies | Film
Trailblazing producer Christine Vachon bestrides the world of US independent film-making like a colossus. She has championed idiosyncratic American c [...]
‘I’ve always been fond of hairy creatures!’ Visual effects maestro Rick Baker on a monstrously good career | Film
When Rick Baker was 22 years aged and laying the first bricks of what would become one of the great Hollywood careers, he travelled to Hatra in Iraq [...]
Will Poulter on challenging stereotypes in novel opioid drama: ‘Shame on us for stigmatizing people’ | Will Poulter
Every week, Annette Deao, a drug dependency counselor, sits in the county jail and offers incarcerated people in rural Ohio a chance at recovery. One [...]