Category: Interviews
‘We’re charged with propaganda, vulgarity and spreading prostitution’: the directors of My Favourite Cake | Movies
You’re on trial in Iran for making My Favourite Cake. You were in court this morning. What happened?Behtash Sanaeeha: We were supposed to be in court [...]
‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his recent film about the threat to democracy | Asif Kapadia
It was some time in the early 2000s and Asif Kapadia, already a successful film director, a wunderkind whose first feature in 2001, The Warrior, won [...]
Jude Law: ‘The persona built on stuff written about me is not me, it’s this other guy’ | Jude Law
Actor Jude Law, 51, grew up in south-east London as the son of teachers. His breakthrough role in The Talented Mr Ripley earned him a Bafta, an Oscar [...]
Aaron Pierre: ‘There wasn’t one day filming Rebel Ridge that I didn’t have a bruise or a cut’ | The Lion King
Imagine a newborn James Earl Jones, Darth Vader himself, if he was from south London. That’s how glossy and chill Aaron Pierre, 30-year-old actor and [...]
‘Fame is a drug like LSD’: Robbie Williams on success, sexuality and his simian movie alter ego | Robbie Williams
In the grand retelling of his life, Robbie Williams wanted to be a lion. To be as sturdy, respected, and feared as the enormous cat tattooed on his r [...]
‘Sexuality is as individual as a fingerprint’: Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on Queer | Movies
There is no shortage of directors who have made movies about gay life only to then backtrack and claim they were not specifically gay stories after a [...]
Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on rage, sex and insults: ‘There’s an intolerance in society now’ | Movies
Most days, Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are divided by an ocean. The 81-year-old director has a home in Cornwall, while the 57-year-old acto [...]
‘I always have a moment of confession’: Peter Sarsgaard on truth, ethics and the quirks of family life | Movies
Peter Sarsgaard appears on Zoom as he often does on film: peaceful, soft-spoken, gentle poise concealing grave thoughts within. Now 53, he has been a [...]
‘I feel I’ve upset a few people over the years’: actor Brian Cox on overrated co-stars, charmless politicians and the joy of smoking weed | Brian Cox
As I leave the office, my editor wishes me luck. “Hope he’s not too grumpy!” she says. A moment later, the deputy editor asks where I’m off to. To se [...]
‘I had this animal, physical desire to be with my child’: author Rachel Yoder on writing Nightbitch | Books
Rachel Yoder knows exactly why she wrote her bestselling debut novel, Nightbitch. “After the 2016 US elections, I was in shock and I was also vibrati [...]