Category: Interviews
‘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 [...]
‘You wouldn’t pick us out as mother and daughter!’: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter on acting together for the first time | Imelda Staunton
‘It’s amazing that I came from you,” says Bessie Carter to her mother, Imelda Staunton, during a break in rehearsals for the forthcoming revival of G [...]
‘I had a recurring dream that Bin Laden was in my kitchen’: Ramy Youssef on his 9/11 comedy | TV comedy
Ramy Youssef has this theory: “The more fucked up the climate, the stupider television must be.” Granted, he came up with it barely 10 seconds ago, b [...]
‘I had to spit in Michael Caine’s face’: Jack O’Connell on Skins, impostor syndrome and stripping off | Jack O’Connell
Your novel film, Sinners, sounds scary. What scares you? MrSOBaldrickLoneliness.I’ve always wanted to act, but I’ve never taken the plunge. Has there [...]