Tag: HollywoodNews
Claressa Shields: ‘I’m not here for people to cry and feel sorry for me’ | Movies
Claressa Shields was two months removed from defending her Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games when an email from Hollywood landed in [...]
Elle Fanning: ‘The last thing I want to be is boring’ | Elle Fanning
‘Technically, I did my first film when I was two,” says Elle Fanning, which, at 26, makes her a youthful old-timer, already more than two decades int [...]
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet: ‘If you’re not daring to suck, you’re not doing much’ | Movies
The Brutalist is a gigantic, muscular American epic that pits the individual against the machine; the artist against the cogs and wheels of commerce. [...]
‘We’re charged with propaganda, vulgarity and spreading prostitution’: the directors of My Favourite Cake | Movies
You’re on trial in Iran for making My Favourite Cake. You were in court this morning. What happened?Behtash Sanaeeha: We were supposed to be in court [...]
‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his recent film about the threat to democracy | Asif Kapadia
It was some time in the early 2000s and Asif Kapadia, already a successful film director, a wunderkind whose first feature in 2001, The Warrior, won [...]
Jude Law: ‘The persona built on stuff written about me is not me, it’s this other guy’ | Jude Law
Actor Jude Law, 51, grew up in south-east London as the son of teachers. His breakthrough role in The Talented Mr Ripley earned him a Bafta, an Oscar [...]
Aaron Pierre: ‘There wasn’t one day filming Rebel Ridge that I didn’t have a bruise or a cut’ | The Lion King
Imagine a newborn James Earl Jones, Darth Vader himself, if he was from south London. That’s how glossy and chill Aaron Pierre, 30-year-old actor and [...]
‘Fame is a drug like LSD’: Robbie Williams on success, sexuality and his simian movie alter ego | Robbie Williams
In the grand retelling of his life, Robbie Williams wanted to be a lion. To be as sturdy, respected, and feared as the enormous cat tattooed on his r [...]
‘Sexuality is as individual as a fingerprint’: Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on Queer | Movies
There is no shortage of directors who have made movies about gay life only to then backtrack and claim they were not specifically gay stories after a [...]
Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on rage, sex and insults: ‘There’s an intolerance in society now’ | Movies
Most days, Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are divided by an ocean. The 81-year-old director has a home in Cornwall, while the 57-year-old acto [...]