Tag: HollywoodNews
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 [...]
‘I always have a moment of confession’: Peter Sarsgaard on truth, ethics and the quirks of family life | Movies
Peter Sarsgaard appears on Zoom as he often does on film: peaceful, soft-spoken, gentle poise concealing grave thoughts within. Now 53, he has been a [...]
‘I feel I’ve upset a few people over the years’: actor Brian Cox on overrated co-stars, charmless politicians and the joy of smoking weed | Brian Cox
As I leave the office, my editor wishes me luck. “Hope he’s not too grumpy!” she says. A moment later, the deputy editor asks where I’m off to. To se [...]
‘I had this animal, physical desire to be with my child’: author Rachel Yoder on writing Nightbitch | Books
Rachel Yoder knows exactly why she wrote her bestselling debut novel, Nightbitch. “After the 2016 US elections, I was in shock and I was also vibrati [...]
‘That’s my own hair. I can really grow whiskers’: Amy Adams and Marielle Heller on toddlers, incontinence and Nightbitch | Amy Adams
I have to be careful describing the film Nightbitch. Not because of spoilers, but because there is a very real danger I will walk through it frame by [...]
‘I took one pill and my whole body was gone’: Kathy Bates on opioids, ageing and selfish co-stars | Television
Kathy Bates plays an elegant game in Sky’s novel reboot of the 1980s legal drama Matlock. She’s the eponymous lawyer Matty, forced out of retirement [...]
‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes | Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham likes to quote that very celebrated saying in acting, “There are no small parts, only small actors” – though it has nothing to do with [...]