Category: Interviews
‘An overnight success after 25 years? Delicious’: Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham on sexism, stunts and stardom at 51 | Hannah Waddingham
Hannah Waddingham clears her throat. Her voice is a little scratchy. Two days before we meet, the star of Ted Lasso hosted the TV comedy show Saturda [...]
‘The minute I had success, I stopped taking drugs’: John Waters on 60 years of screen carnage | John Waters
John Waters still remembers the day his 1988 comedy Hairspray was awarded a PG certificate. “It was horrible,” he says.Until then, Waters, christened [...]
Sam Neill’s final interview: ‘I’d like to think that, in life, I’m a goodie’ | Sam Neill
Did you consult a canine expert about how best to regress into a dog in Dean Spanley? WomanofWolfvilleThere was no consultation. I’ve studied dogs – [...]
‘Ramones had leather jackets when they got spat on. We didn’t!’ David Byrne on touring with Talking Heads and taking advice from Lou Reed | David Byrne
In May 1977, Talking Heads along with Ramones toured the UK starting at Eric’s Club in Liverpool. Did touring as punk exploded have an impact on you? [...]
‘Bored? You’re never good enough to get bored!’ Oscar-winner Helen Hunt on great roles, unruly audiences and her RSC debut | Theatre
It’s lunchtime in Stratford-upon-Avon and Helen Hunt has 30 minutes to spare. She’s preparing for her Royal Shakespeare Company debut and is taking t [...]
‘It was pretty depressing when Stranger Things ended’: Finn Wolfhard on growing up on TV – and his modern life in music | Stranger Things
Finn Wolfhard is remembering his first experience of celebrity. It was 2016 and he was 13. The first season of Stranger Things had aired that summer, [...]
‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite | Film
Earlier this week, Edward Norton took a night flight from New York to London and felt so dreadful the next day he decided to get a massage. “I hadn’t [...]
‘A female Minion would be the beginning of the end’: Pierre Coffin on creepy memes, decoding Minionese and farting bananas | Film
Could we please have a Minions/Backrooms mashup movie? TaffRaffiaI don’t know if it would work because it would be yellow against yellow. All you’d s [...]
‘I’m not a quitter!’ Rubén Blades, the salsa supremo who acted with Jack Nicholson, inspired Bad Bunny – and served as Panama’s tourism minister | Music
“Well, I’ve been around,” says Rubén Blades, accurately. One of the most influential Latin musicians of the past half-century, the Panamanian singer- [...]
‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres | Energy
When Erin Brockovich woke to find 30 emails from people from the same town, she realised something was going on. People email Brockovich all the time [...]