Category: Interviews
‘I don’t want to stop believing in humanity’: Matthew McConaughey on faith, fame and the shocking incident that defined him | Matthew McConaughey
“Simon!” Matthew McConaughey barks. “How do, sir?!” Matthew McConaughey could not be more Matthew McConaughey if he tried. And he’s only said four wo [...]
The Sound of Music’s child actors look back: ‘Musicals about singing nuns – no one was sure the public was going to buy it’ | The Sound of Music
‘We’re still almost boringly normal,” says Nicholas Hammond, helpfully making an observation that I was still figuring out how to tactfully phrase. “ [...]
‘I’m a hustler, a grinder’: Teyana Taylor on music, motherhood and One Battle After Another | Movies
Teyana Taylor is – as she often says to interviewers – the entertainment equivalent of “a Glade plug-in” air freshener: put her in “any socket” and s [...]
‘You think rape’s your fault’: Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker on her devastating memoir | Movies
Brenda Fricker is sitting up in a bed plumped with pillows, wearing a sapphire blue blouse and a head of grey-golden ringlets. One bedside table has [...]
‘The town poured in everything to make it happen’: how a film-making dynasty – and an entire community – celebrated an everyday hero | Movies
You know how it is with films about inspirational teachers: the teachers in question are always frigid. Whether they’re sexy, like Michelle Pfeiffer [...]
‘Push back – or they’ll eat you alive’: James Cromwell on life as Hollywood’s biggest troublemaker | Movies
Amid the hustle of midtown Manhattan on Wednesday 11 May 2022, James Cromwell walked into Starbucks, glued his hand to a counter and complained about [...]
‘I had to think about Andrew Tate. That was miserable’: 150 years of masculinity, all in one play | Theatre
Every word is a wrestling match for Alice Birch. “I find it quite painful,” the award-winning playwright and screenwriter admits. “It’s ugly and horr [...]
‘The old white patriarchy isn’t knocking on my door!’ Sandra Oh on joy, despair – and going viral with a euphoric dance | Movies
This summer, Sandra Oh stood behind a lectern at a graduation ceremony in New Hampshire, preparing to give university-leavers words of hope at a time [...]
‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine – and toothache | Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman is in a funk. The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, [...]
Dau director Ilya Khrzhanovsky: my ‘pornographic propaganda’ recreating the USSR is more critical than ever | Movies
In tardy July this year, a few days before his 50th birthday, the exiled Russian film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky was landed with a 50,000 rouble (£450) [...]