Tag: HollywoodNews
‘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 [...]
‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom | Movies
Alan Alda never expected this. The 89-year-old is back topping the charts with an update of his film The Four Seasons. In 1981, Alda wrote, directed [...]
‘I should really be the world champion’: Ralph Macchio on kicking it as The Karate Kid for 41 years | Movies
‘Sorry to ask such a personal question,” I say to Ralph Macchio, who at 63 we can no longer call The Karate Kid. Let’s go with karate man. He’s in th [...]