Category: Interviews
‘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. [...]
‘The 90s were remarkable – we weren’t all living in existential terror!’ Darren Aronofsky on Caught Stealing, his love letter to New York | Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky’s up-to-date film is a blast from the past; a half-cut retro tour of late-1990s New York. Beetling around the tatty East Village, ca [...]
Guitar dealer to the stars Norman Harris on George Harrison, Marty McFly and his secret stash | Music
Norman Harris’s career as a guitar dealer went stratospheric one day in 1973, when he received a phone call from a friend. “He said he was with someo [...]
‘I’d rather be in the wild chasing animals than going to Hollywood parties’: Taylor Kitsch on fame, flops and Friday Night Lights | Movies
There is a moment in every actor’s career when they must confront their early dreams and their present reality. For Taylor Kitsch, that reckoning has [...]
The secret life of a child star: how Alyson Stoner survived stalkers, starvation and sexualisation | Television
When Alyson Stoner was nine, a wardrobe assistant on the set of a TV show noticed the child actor’s murky leg-hair and told Stoner it was “dirty and [...]
‘I’m not a huge CGI guy’: Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash on remaking trash classic Deathstalker | Movies
Welcome to the celluloid jungle. Guitar legend and Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash is getting into movies, producing a “requel” of the 1983 cult Roger Cor [...]
‘We’re in a hearty relationship!’ Alison Brie and Dave Franco on gruesome body horror Together | Movies
Dave Franco is showing me his wounds: a bloody finger, a grazed foot, a palm full of blisters. On his phone, the actor zooms in on the photo collage [...]
‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty | Movies
It’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjami [...]
‘I knew my job was to fulfil a man’s fantasy’: Elizabeth McGovern on Downton, early fame and co-starring with Brad Pitt | Movies
For the maudlin among us, the final Downton Abbey film should perhaps come with a warning. Everything in it is tinged with wistfulness – a goodbye to [...]
‘I was too good’: Sharon Stone on stardom, family secrets, sexual abuse – and her comeback after a stroke | Sharon Stone
A couple of days before our interview, in tardy July, Sharon Stone announced on Instagram that her mother had died. When we meet over video link, I e [...]