Category: Interviews
Patricia Clarkson: ‘When women make equal pay, everybody wins’ | Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson, who portrays slow equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter in a biopic released this week, has a wish.The Oscar-nominated actor hopes he [...]
That’s me in the spotlight: Michael Shannon on swapping Hollywood for an REM covers band | Music
Michael Shannon was a teenager when he first heard REM. “I was out at my cousin’s trailer; he lived in the country. He put Document on his little cas [...]
‘Not much zoology – apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his secret surrealist love romp film | Art
In the opening scene of Time Flower, a surrealist film by the zoologist Desmond Morris, a woman is lying facedown on the ground, clutching the grass [...]
Surgery, real sex and water sports: Louise Weard on her four-hour camcorder trans film Castration Movie Part One | Movies
When Louise Weard began shooting her debut film in 2023, she envisaged it as a snappy, 90-minute portrait of a group of queer and transgender friends [...]
Nicolas Cage: ‘I don’t think a day goes by where I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave’ | Nicolas Cage
What do you remember of that appearance on Wogan? What was Terry like in real life? Have you still got that leather jacket, and the snakeskin jacket [...]
A child on gaunt ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father | Life and style
When EA Hanks was 14, her mother announced she had bought a Winnebago and they were going to drive across the US in it. It was 1996, and Hanks (her i [...]
Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’ | Music
Swamp Dogg has only just stopped seeing monsters. Since being spiked with LSD back in the 1960s, which also influenced his distinct take on left-fiel [...]
The grisly return of Final Destination: ‘What are the everyday experiences we can ruin for people?’ | Movies
‘My inbox is filled with the most horrible ways people can die,” says Craig Perry, the producer – or, as he would prefer, “curator” – of the Final De [...]
‘I wish I’d never written that damn movie’: Rust director Joel Souza on finishing his film after the fatal on-set shooting | Movies
Joel Souza never liked guns. “I didn’t grow up around them and I don’t like the culture,” says the grey-haired 51-year-old film-maker sitting at a de [...]
‘I stopped talking to my parents – and life opened up’: Heather Graham on family, ageing and ‘creepy’ film-makers | Movies
For almost all her life, Heather Graham says, she was a “people pleaser”. It was encouraged in childhood, she says, this obligation to put others’ ne [...]