Category: Interviews
‘On YouTube, we can reach 2.5bn people at once’: Oscars head Bill Kramer on TV, AI and 4am starts | Oscars 2026
It’s a boiling day in downtown Los Angeles; crowds are milling about outside the Dolby theatre where Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony is to be held, [...]
Snoop Dogg, pigsty fights and the wrong kind of snow: Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan on making the Peaky Blinders movie | Film
In June 2023, Barry Keoghan texted Cillian Murphy to wish him a content Father’s Day. The pair had shared the screen six years before, in the film Du [...]
‘Orwell went off to fight. I thought I’d have to do the same’: Raoul Peck on his intimate connection with the writer | Documentary films
‘I must admit,” says Raoul Peck from his book-lined Parisian apartment, “George Orwell was not top of my list of authors who I thought would fit my c [...]
‘Arms and legs are very expressive, especially with bruises’: the absurdist photography of Yorgos Lanthimos | Photography
In the centre of Athens, a brand fresh temple has popped up. Walk around the lofty white columns surrounding it and you’ll eventually find the entran [...]
‘The male ego is even more fragile than it ever was’: Kim Gordon on shyness, AI and Zohran Mamdani’s nippy | Kim Gordon
Did you plan to change rock music for ever? Were you envisaging a decades-long career, or was it all a bit more haphazard? NepthsolemWhen Sonic Yout [...]
‘He was a very dear friend’: Cary Elwes on life after The Princess Bride – and losing Rob Reiner | Film
In 1988, the actor Cary Elwes’s career had taken a nosedive. His latest film, a fantasy in which he played a farm boy turned swashbuckling hero, had [...]
‘The dream is to be a standup, but everyone who knows me says: Please don’t’ – Riz Ahmed on chaos, comedy, and defying categorisation | Riz Ahmed
Riz Ahmed was multitasking. It was February in London, and the actor was doing an interview with a men’s magazine en route to collect his kid from sc [...]
‘I’m a huge bear. I lumber’: showbiz superstar Richard Kind on delivering performances you can see from space | Theatre
Richard Kind has played everything from a child’s imaginary friend in the Pixar fantasy Inside Out to a neighbour with antibiotic-resistant pinkeye i [...]
‘The most stunningly awful wonderful record’: how the Shaggs became rock’s most divisive band | Music
When Austin Wiggin Jr was a boy, his mother read his palm. She foretold that Austin would have two sons she wouldn’t live to see; he’d marry a strawb [...]
‘Was that an earthquake?’ Italy’s great psycho-geographer tackles the Vesuvius-haunted Naples tourists seldom see | Film
A uniform grey nimbostratus has blocked the rays of the London sun the day I speak to Gianfranco Rosi, but this consummately Italian film-maker is fe [...]