Tag: CelebrityInterviews
Taraji P Henson: ‘It’s exhausting to have to fight for my worth’ | Taraji P Henson
On a Wednesday evening in midtown New York, generations X through Z spill out of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to cluster around the venue’s side stage [...]
‘I’ve had white knuckle moments’: Michael Socha on This Is England, his patchy beard – and seedy fresh casino thriller The Cage | Drama
Michael Socha is about to jump on a train to Wales. The impressively bushy beard he’s got is for his role in The Witch Farm, a dramatic adaptation of [...]
‘Such a water-cooler show!’ Jane Krakowski on Ally McBeal – and life as the world’s biggest scene-stealer | Stage
‘I’ve been on three television shows that moved the needle a little bit,” says Jane Krakowski. “It sounds obnoxious for me to say it, so hopefully yo [...]
‘I’m not a commercial director – I’m not even a professional film-maker’: Jim Jarmusch on the seven-year journey to make his novel film | Jim Jarmusch
In 1991, Jim Jarmusch was casting for his anthology film Night on Earth. The premise was basic: five taxi drivers in five cities pick up passengers, [...]
Paul Dano: ‘Nobody needs to know about my high-school band!’ | Film
You were wonderful as Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy. Did you get any feedback from the great man himself? Fran2016 and Aubrey26Thank you. I spent a bu [...]
Legendary Disney composer Alan Menken on winning Oscars, Razzies and his ‘filthy’ rock musical | Music
In early 1991, the composer Alan Menken took a keyboard to St Vincent’s hospital in New York to visit his friend and original partner, the lyricist H [...]
‘Coke and booze didn’t lend a hand my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot | Film
Joe Eszterhas was the swaggering pitchman of 80s and 90s Hollywood; the king of the high-concept, precision-tooled blockbuster. He wrote Jagged Edge, [...]
My mother, Audrey Hepburn: the star’s son Sean on her movies, marriages, good works and fascist parents | Audrey Hepburn
Growing up, Sean Hepburn Ferrer says he never felt like the son of a movie star – but he very much is. His mother was Audrey Hepburn, one of the bigg [...]
Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’ | Theatre
“I feel like I’m imitating an American accent, but it really is mine,” Monica Barbaro jokes. The actor has spent the morning rehearsing in an English [...]
‘It’s the year of gay Brazilian cruising!’ The makers of Night Stage on public sex and their ‘deranged erotic thriller’ | World cinema
You wait for ever for a visually electrifying Brazilian film featuring scenes in a gay cruising ground, then two come along at once. First, the Oscar [...]