Category: Interviews
Isabella Rossellini: ‘People never talk about the freedom, the lightness, that comes with ageing’ | Isabella Rossellini
Most great female actors get to play a nun at some point in their career: a kind of thespian rite of passage that comes to many in their grande dame [...]
Tim Robbins: ‘You’re telling me Netflix is the future of cinema? We’re in large trouble’ | Television
Before I speak to Tim Robbins, the publicist for the series that he’s promoting, Apple TV+’s dystopian drama Silo, politely requests that our convers [...]
Daisy Ridley: ‘I made a toilet cake on Bake Off because flushing with the lid up is unhygienic beyond belief’ | Movies
How much training did you do for Young Woman and the Sea? Wasn’t the sea icy? Closey29Incredibly icy. I did three months training, then nine days fil [...]
The Mars Volta: ‘The world we were in was very sexist and homophobic’ | Mars Volta
When Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta moved to the mainland US with his parents from their native Puerto Rico at age 10, he was thrilled when t [...]
‘I’ve had a wild, cluttered, pretty life’: Rebecca Hall on race, regrets and learning to be herself | Rebecca Hall
We all thought that we knew Rebecca Hall – English rose, on stage since childhood, daughter of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s founder Sir Peter Hall [...]
Colm Tóibín: ‘Ireland today is a much freer place’ | Colm Tóibín
Born in 1955, Colm Tóibín has written compact stories, poetry, plays, essays and even opera libretti. He remains best known as a novelist, garnering [...]
Asim Chaudhry: ‘Being ignored as a child was a weird blessing’ | Life and style
I was a class clown at school and very original. My parents saw my creativity as me just being silly. I’d make music, utilize cameras, come up with w [...]
‘I couldn’t tell my parents I loved them’: documentary-maker Duncan Cowles on giving still men a voice | Documentary films
Silence is golden – at least where men are concerned. The “strong, silent type” endures as an aspirational archetype, whether you are a man yourself, [...]
Emily Watson: ‘You have to be a bit of an idiot to be an actor’ | Emily Watson
The British actor Emily Watson made one of the outstanding film debuts when she starred in Lars Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves in 1996, aged 29. She [...]
‘Watch out, I’m even less inhibited’: Olivia Williams on movies, misogyny and living with cancer | Movies
Since 2018, Olivia Williams has grown more blunt than she used to be. “I’m a bit less scared of the consequences of saying what I think,” she explain [...]