Category: Interviews
‘A kitchen film with no food porn’: how Alonso Ruizpalacios sold Rooney Mara on his abortion drama | Movies
Anyone who visited the Rainforest Cafe, a now defunct Piccadilly Circus tourist trap serving overpriced burgers among plastic foliage and animatronic [...]
Seth Rogen on going from onscreen slacker to studio boss: ‘People really do scream at each other in Hollywood’ | Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is itemising all the ways in which, when he’s producing a film or TV show, he’s inclined to agonise about his contribution. “Are my notes [...]
‘Just wait until Trump takes away our unions’: Fionnula Flanagan on America, Ireland and acting quiet | Movies
Fionnula Flanagan, the veteran Irish actor, has been a star of stage and screen for more than six decades, earning Tony nominations for her theatre w [...]
‘It was chaotic but beautiful’: Warda Mohamed and Kosar Ali on filming the British-Somali miniature Muna | Movies
When Warda Mohamed posted a message on social media that she had completed her feature film script, she never expected it to change her career. “I ge [...]
‘Emotions? They’re no huge thing, man!’ Jeff Bridges on satisfaction, silver linings – and his secret life in music | Music
A rainy day in Santa Barbara, and Jeff Bridges sits in his garage, wondering where his favourite spectacles have got to. We are in the middle of a ra [...]
‘Something must have gone wrong with us’: David Cronenberg and Howard Shore on four decades of body horror | Movies
What would having sex in a car crash sound like, as music? What about a gynaecological exam performed by identical twins, or a man’s transmogrificati [...]
‘Cancer gave me clarity’: Industry star Marisa Abela on surviving solemn illness, playing posh and on-screen nudity | Movies
Marisa Abela finds it very complex to go to the gym. Not for the usual reasons – lack of time or motivation – but because she says the reception she [...]
‘Musicals can be quite sinister’: Tilda Swinton and Joshua Oppenheimer on bonkers bunker singalong The End | Tilda Swinton
Time is miniature for the family at the heart of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fresh film. Mother, Father and their adult son eke out their days in an undergr [...]
‘I told Charlotte Rampling’s agent: I want to see her doing the vacuuming’: François Ozon | Movies
You’ve had such an eclectic career. Is there any particular genre that you haven’t tackled already but would like to? LickyKickyI don’t care about ge [...]
‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his gigantic win | The Brutalist
Daniel Blumberg hands me his Oscar, as surprised as he is chuffed. Bloody hell, it’s bulky. Is it real gold? “I wish it was,” says the latest winner [...]