Category: Interviews
‘I couldn’t get rid of Finchy’: Ralph Ineson on The Office – and becoming a Hollywood superstar at 55 | Movies
How do you portray Galactus, a gigantic, amoral, immortal superbeing who thrives by draining planets of their energy? If you’re making a film of any [...]
‘Everybody’s starved of affection’: Past Lives director Celine Song on the brutal dating scene and her realistic recent romcom | Movies
‘Our financial literacy is so fucked,” says Celine Song. We’re having breakfast in Manhattan on a shining Saturday in early July, a few weeks after h [...]
Guy Pearce: ‘I don’t think I’ll look as good in a frock as I did when I was 25’ | Movies
You once said you need to be so in control of things that if you had brain surgery, you’d only feel comfortable doing it yourself. Do you still feel [...]
‘It’s the best monster ever invented’: Noah Hawley on bringing Ridley Scott’s Alien to TV | Television
When it was first announced in 2013, the thought of Fargo being reimagined as a TV miniseries felt practically sacrilegious. The 1996 neo-noir starri [...]
‘Everybody was fondling underwater!’: the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50 – an oral history | Movies
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in cinemas in slow 1975 with little fanfare, but the provocative musical, with its campy parody of sci-fi [...]
‘Mum, I can’t think straight any more’: the mother who filmed her son’s entire childhood | Movies
There’s a scene in the documentary Motherboard in which life as a lone parent is very much going off the rails. While film-maker Victoria Mapplebeck [...]
Ciarán Hinds: ‘Who is my celebrity crush? Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem’ | Life and style
Born in Belfast, Ciarán Hinds, 72, studied at Rada. In 1987, he joined Peter Brook’s cast of The Mahabharata – an epic play that toured the world; he [...]
‘Generations of women have been disfigured’: Jamie Lee Curtis lets rip on plastic surgery, power, and Hollywood’s age problem | Jamie Lee Curtis
I’m scheduled to speak to Jamie Lee Curtis at 2pm UK time, and a few minutes before the allotted slot I dial in via video link, to be met with a visi [...]
‘I call it a nihilist western’: director Athina Rachel Tsangari on her trippy folk horror Harvest | Movies
A hand emerges from sheaves of wheat waving in the wind. Then we see a face, trying to eat moss on a log, and a tongue searching for liquid in rocks. [...]
‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40 | Movies
It is a sweltering summer afternoon and I’m blowing bubbles over the heads of Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi while they have their pictures taken [...]