Tag: CelebrityInterviews
‘I think of those I left behind in prison’: Iran’s Jafar Panahi on life as a banned film-maker | Jafar Panahi
In February 2023 Jafar Panahi walked free from Iran’s Evin prison after nearly seven months behind bars. Friends and supporters had gathered to greet [...]
‘There is no cure for grief’: Tim Roth on losing his son after making a film about bereavement | Tim Roth
Tim Roth reclines in his chair and exudes an unexpected lightness, as if the Atlantic Ocean is casting a summer spray over this corner of Galway. He [...]
‘Men run away from vulnerability’: The Weeknd on blinding success, panic attacks and why The Idol was ‘half-baked’ | Music
Walking out to perform in front of 80,000 people and finding that your voice has gone: it’s the type of stress dream you have the night before a larg [...]
‘We have to stop what’s going on, it’s insane’: Robert De Niro on battling age, apathy and Trump | Robert De Niro
On the opening night of the Cannes film festival, Robert De Niro takes the stage to accept an honorary Palme d’Or. He embraces Leonardo DiCaprio, tur [...]
‘Theatre puts a finger in the wound’: Willem Dafoe returns to his first love in Venice | Theatre
Sitting in his house in Rome, an overstuffed bookcase and a distressed wooden door behind him, Willem Dafoe scrunches his hair as though kneading the [...]
‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz | Art
There is a series by Peter Hujar in which the photographer shot groups of friends, collaborators, lovers and other members of the New York avant gard [...]
‘I had a chance to pass my mum’s story on’: Kazuo Ishiguro on growing up in shadow of the Nagasaki bomb | Film adaptations
Kazuo Ishiguro still remembers where he was when he wrote A Pale View of Hills: hunched over the dining room table in a bedsit in Cardiff. He was in [...]
The White Lotus’s Walton Goggins: ‘Who do I most admire? My wife, because of what we have overcome together’ | Life and style
Born in Alabama, Walton Goggins, 53, moved to Los Angeles where he started a car valeting business and took acting lessons. His films include Lincoln [...]
Patricia Clarkson: ‘When women make equal pay, everybody wins’ | Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson, who portrays slow equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter in a biopic released this week, has a wish.The Oscar-nominated actor hopes he [...]
That’s me in the spotlight: Michael Shannon on swapping Hollywood for an REM covers band | Music
Michael Shannon was a teenager when he first heard REM. “I was out at my cousin’s trailer; he lived in the country. He put Document on his little cas [...]