Tag: CelebrityInterviews
Is this an artist – or a coffee pot? The great William Kentridge reveals the strange secret to a great self-portrait | Art and design
You only have to glance at William Kentridge’s family tree to realise why he is such an outsider. His maternal grandmother, Irene Geffen, was South A [...]
‘Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional recent album – and life after Oscar success | Pop and rock
The sun is shining, birds are tweeting and a river gently flows just yards away as Jerskin Fendrix tells me about his love of growing up in Shropshir [...]
‘You’d never make Slumdog today’: Danny Boyle on risks, regrets and returning to the undead | Danny Boyle
The UK is a wasteland in Danny Boyle’s novel film. Towns lie in ruins, trains rot on the rails and the EU has severed all ties with the place. Some r [...]
‘It’s challenging to find work’: Marlee Matlin on making Hollywood history but waiting for change | Movies
In 1987, at the age of 21, Marlee Matlin became the youngest person ever to win a best actress Oscar. Footage of her victory appears early in Marlee [...]
Adeel Akhtar: ‘It seemed late in the day to start noticing Asian actors … we’ve been here a really long time’ | Theatre
A decade ago, it would have been scarce to have an Asian actor playing the British prime minister or leader of the opposition. But in the space of a [...]
‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones | Documentary films
Reactions to Lauren Greenfield’s documentary series Social Studies tend to fall into two categories. Young people think it is validating; adults thin [...]
‘The script didn’t have Jurassic World on the front’: Gareth Edwards on Monsters, Godzilla, Star Wars and reinventing dinosaurs | Movies
Like an age-old warhorse hearing the bugle for one last time, readers of a certain age will be snorting and whinnying at the words “Gareth” and “Edwa [...]
‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers | M3gan
If you had wandered the set of the film M3gan 2.0 last year, chances are you would have stumbled into M3gan, the terrifying humanoid doll, staring li [...]
Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path | Movies
‘I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,” says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown) [...]
‘Space travel is queer’: the unstoppable film-maker skewering Bezos and Musk’s macho fantasies | Movies
‘She’s a great inspiration,” says Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, picking up a photo she keeps in her wildly decorated office of the scientist Marie Curi [...]