Category: Interviews
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 [...]
‘I hum the Chariots of Fire theme all day, every day’: Nigel Havers on beach-running, playing Michael Caine’s son and hating his name | Movies
I’m obsessed with the BBC Radio 4 programme, Nigel Havers’ Ravers, where you recount your experiences during the ecstasy-fuelled 90s summers of love. [...]
‘Where is the adult?’: how Leonardo Van Dijl filmed the story of a child tennis star’s abuse | Movies
Leonardo Van Dijl smiles: “If you told me a year ago that I’d be speaking to the Guardian, I’d have asked: ‘What about?’” Last May, the 34-year-old f [...]
David Oyelowo: ‘My wife and I made the decision early on never to be apart for longer than two weeks’’ | Acting
David, you are going to walk among kings.” This was my mum’s prophecy when I was miniature. My father is from a royal family in Nigeria, so I interpr [...]
‘It feels deeply human’: Andor’s Genevieve O’Reilly on turning a miniature Star Wars role into one of its biggest | Television
“I swear I got the job because I was the palest person in Sydney,” Genevieve O’Reilly says of the fateful day, more than 20 years ago, when she took [...]
Boot camp, matching tattoos and mutual head-shaving: Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Michael Gandolfini on making Warfare | Movies
Five actors and one director are seated around a table in a London hotel room, when there is a knock at the door. The room service attendant enters, [...]
‘My heart broke’: director Ryan Coogler on mourning Chadwick Boseman, rebooting Black Panther and his recent movie Sinners | Ryan Coogler
We’re supposed to be talking about movies, but Ryan Coogler has family on his mind when we have our video call – parents, siblings, twins, ancestors [...]
‘I’d love Keanu to read it’: Ione Skye on bisexuality, infidelity and her wild tell-all memoir | Autobiography and memoir
In person, as in her fresh tell-all memoir, 90s Hollywood “It” girl Ione Skye doesn’t hold back. Whether she’s discussing menopausal hormone treatmen [...]