Category: Interviews
Jared Harris: ‘Dad knocked out an Irishman then brought him round by throwing Guinness in his face’ | Movies
You seem to have a predilection to play real-life characters who die prematurely. Who would you like to play who lives to ancient age? NeilHVWell, I [...]
Alex Lawther: ‘The worst thing someone said to me? I laugh like Jimmy Carr’ | Life and style
Born in Hampshire, Alex Lawther, 30, made his West End debut in David Hare’s South Downs at 16. In 2014 he played the youthful Alan Turing in the fil [...]
‘Our songs last three minutes but they feel like an hour’: the return of Spinal Tap – an exclusive that goes up to 11! | Movies
Spinal Tap are remembering the aged days. It was 1966, and the adolescent beat group from Squatney in east London – still, at that point, the Thamesm [...]
‘I held on to what’s significant’: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award | Venice film festival
She was the No 1 box office star in the slow 50s, but for decades Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo, has lived a life of [...]
Lucy Lawless: ‘I’ve got bag lady hair. I look like I’ve just had sex in a dumpster’ | Life and style
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Lucy Lawless, 57, studied drama in Canada. In the 1990s she starred on television in Xena: Warrior Princess. She went [...]
‘I want to earn my stripes’: Cooper Hoffman on ambition, anxiety, and following in his dad’s footsteps | Movies
When Cooper Hoffman was in his teens, he didn’t have any grand plans for the future, though there was one thing he knew for sure: he did not want to [...]
Pierce Brosnan: ‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’ | Pierce Brosnan
It is a weekday morning and I am standing beside Pierce Brosnan on a deserted backstreet, watching a woman in a hairnet and white wellies hosing down [...]
David Strathairn: ‘Authoritarianism is a very frightening concept when it comes to the arts’ | Movies
When George Clooney brought Good Night, and Good Luck to the stage earlier this year, it set a record for the highest-grossing play in Broadway histo [...]
‘I turned down $20m to do Terminator 3. I can’t be bought, dude’: Ridley Scott on directing, Daleks and … cherry jam | Ridley Scott
You’ve explored worlds of dystopia, historical epics and perplexing moral aspects of the universe. What idea or question has haunted you the longest? [...]
‘The most difficult word to say is “Cut!”’: an audience with Cannes conquerors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Movies
Earlier this year, the Cannes film festival saw a triumphant recent appearance from European cinema’s kings of social realism and social conscience. [...]