Category: Interviews
‘I call it a nihilist western’: director Athina Rachel Tsangari on her trippy folk horror Harvest | Movies
A hand emerges from sheaves of wheat waving in the wind. Then we see a face, trying to eat moss on a log, and a tongue searching for liquid in rocks. [...]
‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40 | Movies
It is a sweltering summer afternoon and I’m blowing bubbles over the heads of Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi while they have their pictures taken [...]
‘You think God didn’t make gay men?’ Comedian Leslie Jones on religion, grief and getting famed at 47 | Leslie Jones
It’s early evening in a photography studio in west London, and the American comedian Leslie Jones is capering about, dressed in a full-length gold la [...]
‘In the world of psychiatry, all your certainties are shattered’: has cinema’s champion of kindness run out of patience? | Nicolas Philibert
Laurence is a woman in desperate need of an act of human kindness. The grey-haired patient urges her psychiatrist for a hug, a cuddle – that, she say [...]
‘I wish I’d enjoyed my fame a bit more’: Jim Sturgess on regrets, romance and the art of the mix tape | Television & radio
Like all good love stories, this one starts with a chance meeting and ends with a reunion. It was 2008, pre-Hardy and Hiddleston, post-Bale and Grant [...]
How being crushed by a 14,000lb snowplough made Jeremy Renner a nicer person: ‘I’ve never been more vulnerable, open and loving’ | Jeremy Renner
Six ribs broken in 14 places. Three breaks in the lower pelvis. Right and left ankle broken. Left tibia broken. Left wrist fractured. Left toes, thre [...]
‘I’d be proud to be thrown out of America!’ Eric Idle on Trump, life after Python and not talking before lunch | Movies
When news broke in 2021 that Eric Idle had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, dismay was followed by relief when he survived to get the all-clear [...]
Camp vampires! Frisky throuples! How Stephanie Rothman became queen of the B-movie | Movies
Stephanie Rothman first came across the term “exploitation” in a review of one of her own films. It was 1970, and her second solo-directed feature, T [...]
Anne Reid on fame, desire and ambition at 90: ‘The most wonderful things have happened since I was 68!’ | Anne Reid
Anne Reid wants to get one thing straight from the off. She adores working with the director Dominic Dromgoole. “He treats actors like grownups. Some [...]
‘I have a lot of sympathy for Elon Musk’: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on his tech bros AI satire Mountainhead | Mountainhead
When he gets to his London office on the morning this piece is published, Jesse Armstrong will read it in print, or not at all. Though the building h [...]