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‘The old white patriarchy isn’t knocking on my door!’ Sandra Oh on joy, despair – and going viral with a euphoric dance | Movies
This summer, Sandra Oh stood behind a lectern at a graduation ceremony in New Hampshire, preparing to give university-leavers words of hope at a time [...]
‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine – and toothache | Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman is in a funk. The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, [...]
Dau director Ilya Khrzhanovsky: my ‘pornographic propaganda’ recreating the USSR is more critical than ever | Movies
In tardy July this year, a few days before his 50th birthday, the exiled Russian film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky was landed with a 50,000 rouble (£450) [...]
Jared Harris: ‘Dad knocked out an Irishman then brought him round by throwing Guinness in his face’ | Movies
You seem to have a predilection to play real-life characters who die prematurely. Who would you like to play who lives to ancient age? NeilHVWell, I [...]
Alex Lawther: ‘The worst thing someone said to me? I laugh like Jimmy Carr’ | Life and style
Born in Hampshire, Alex Lawther, 30, made his West End debut in David Hare’s South Downs at 16. In 2014 he played the youthful Alan Turing in the fil [...]
‘Our songs last three minutes but they feel like an hour’: the return of Spinal Tap – an exclusive that goes up to 11! | Movies
Spinal Tap are remembering the aged days. It was 1966, and the adolescent beat group from Squatney in east London – still, at that point, the Thamesm [...]
‘I held on to what’s significant’: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award | Venice film festival
She was the No 1 box office star in the slow 50s, but for decades Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo, has lived a life of [...]
Lucy Lawless: ‘I’ve got bag lady hair. I look like I’ve just had sex in a dumpster’ | Life and style
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Lucy Lawless, 57, studied drama in Canada. In the 1990s she starred on television in Xena: Warrior Princess. She went [...]
‘I want to earn my stripes’: Cooper Hoffman on ambition, anxiety, and following in his dad’s footsteps | Movies
When Cooper Hoffman was in his teens, he didn’t have any grand plans for the future, though there was one thing he knew for sure: he did not want to [...]
Pierce Brosnan: ‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’ | Pierce Brosnan
It is a weekday morning and I am standing beside Pierce Brosnan on a deserted backstreet, watching a woman in a hairnet and white wellies hosing down [...]