Category: Interviews
Cynthia Erivo on fame, fear and not fitting in: ‘I’ve never talked about how tough my journey has been’ | Cynthia Erivo
I thought I knew everything about Wicked when Cynthia Erivo walked into a meeting room in the Guardian’s London offices. She felt wildly incongruous, [...]
Felicity Jones: ‘I try not to look in the mirror too much’ | Felicity Jones
I think about bringing up our children all the time, and the thought is: we can’t mess it up, we have to do everything perfectly, otherwise they’re g [...]
‘I was 25 and done with playing a teenager’: Asa Butterfield on Sex Education, stage fright and his ‘terrifying’ one-man play | Asa Butterfield
Interviewing actors usually involves asking them to remember things: lines spoken, expressions pulled, performances given weeks, months or even years [...]
Iranian Oscar nominee Mohammad Rasoulof: ‘After my arrest, I told myself: don’t hold back’ | Movies
When mass protests erupted in Iran after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained for not properly wearing her hijab, M [...]
‘I was careful not to exploit the tears or the drama’: the director of Oscar-tipped Once Upon a Time in Ukraine on her powerful documentary | Movies
Director and producer Betsy West is best known for her lively, intimate portraits of remarkable women: her documentary RBG, for example, a profile of [...]
‘Stuff happens and it sucks’: Brooke Shields on abuse, ageing and telling her own story | Celebrity
Brooke Shields was at a party, drifting off. The host, a petite man with bare feet, was giving her a tour of his wine cellar and she was losing inter [...]
Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’ | Movies
Is your music less significant, more significant, or about as significant as your film work? BenderRodriguezHere’s the thing: I grew up in music. I s [...]
‘People often don’t feel treated as equals’: Adrien Brody on complexity, comebacks and The Brutalist | Movies
Adrien Brody puts down his phone. “I’m heartbroken,” he says. The latest of many friends in Los Angeles has just lost their home to the city wildfire [...]
‘I was waking up five times a night’: how film-maker Mikhail Krichman escaped from Russia | Movies
It was March 2022 and Joshua Oppenheimer was waiting at Copenhagen airport for the youthful man who would be staying with him for a few weeks. Oppenh [...]
‘When I sense something is not right, I am going to protect myself’ – Lucy Liu on success, shame and calling out Bill Murray | Movies
Boredom is not a feeling with which Lucy Liu is familiar. “Sometimes I wouldn’t mind it,” she says with a smile. “But it feels nonstop. I never get b [...]