Tag: Cinephile
‘We’re in a hearty relationship!’ Alison Brie and Dave Franco on gruesome body horror Together | Movies
Dave Franco is showing me his wounds: a bloody finger, a grazed foot, a palm full of blisters. On his phone, the actor zooms in on the photo collage [...]
‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty | Movies
It’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjami [...]
‘I knew my job was to fulfil a man’s fantasy’: Elizabeth McGovern on Downton, early fame and co-starring with Brad Pitt | Movies
For the maudlin among us, the final Downton Abbey film should perhaps come with a warning. Everything in it is tinged with wistfulness – a goodbye to [...]
‘I was too good’: Sharon Stone on stardom, family secrets, sexual abuse – and her comeback after a stroke | Sharon Stone
A couple of days before our interview, in tardy July, Sharon Stone announced on Instagram that her mother had died. When we meet over video link, I e [...]
‘Alien is a warning, isn’t it?’: Essie Davis on Alien: Earth and Tasmania’s ecological crisis | Television
Essie Davis didn’t watch much horror growing up in Tasmania; the 55-year-old actor can still bitterly recall the moment when, aged four, she was left [...]
‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare | Movies
Ari Aster’s fresh movie, Eddington, pits Joaquin Phoenix against Pedro Pascal as men with conflicting takes on how to get their compact town through [...]
‘We’re drawn to complicated people, not heroes’: Ashley Zukerman on Succession, Silo and playing ‘punchable men’ | Australian film
Ashley Zukerman is that guy: you’ll know him from something and you’ll have enjoyed him in it. It might be Nate Sofrelli from Succession, the politic [...]
‘I couldn’t get rid of Finchy’: Ralph Ineson on The Office – and becoming a Hollywood superstar at 55 | Movies
How do you portray Galactus, a gigantic, amoral, immortal superbeing who thrives by draining planets of their energy? If you’re making a film of any [...]
‘Everybody’s starved of affection’: Past Lives director Celine Song on the brutal dating scene and her realistic recent romcom | Movies
‘Our financial literacy is so fucked,” says Celine Song. We’re having breakfast in Manhattan on a shining Saturday in early July, a few weeks after h [...]
Guy Pearce: ‘I don’t think I’ll look as good in a frock as I did when I was 25’ | Movies
You once said you need to be so in control of things that if you had brain surgery, you’d only feel comfortable doing it yourself. Do you still feel [...]