Tag: HollywoodNews
Carla Simón: ‘In Spain people use words like shame and blame. But my parents just had bad luck‘ | Film
Family reunions in European arthouse cinema are almost always unhappy events, on a scale of strife that ranges from simmering resentment (Louis Malle [...]
Paying in sweat! How Debbie Allen went from stardom in Fame to conquer Hollywood | Stage
Debbie Allen once found herself judging the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City alongside a charismatic property developer named Donald Trump. He h [...]
‘I told him, “Go ahead, do it”’: Juliette Binoche on how a strangling attack as a teen inspired her directorial debut | Juliette Binoche
Starring in more than 70 movies is all well and good, but Juliette Binoche can still get the jitters. Right now, the Oscar-winning actor is biting he [...]
Joseph Fiennes on parenting, politics and banning children from social media: ‘Stand up, Keir, this is your kids’ generation’ | Joseph Fiennes
We are at a corner table in a breakfast place in Chelsea, Joseph Fiennes opposite me on the banquette with his jack russell, Noa. “Dog duty,” he says [...]
‘We laced Nicole into her corset and her rib broke again’: Moulin Rouge at 25 – an oral history by cast and crew | Film
Moulin Rouge! was a whirlwind of a film, an extravagant assault on the senses that reinvigorated the musical. The doomed love affair between Satine ( [...]
Deborah Mailman: ‘There’s almost a permission now – people can just be incredibly cruel and racist’ | Australian film
Deborah Mailman sat in rusty red sand on Arrernte Country in Central Australia, and she felt her character’s deep grief. She was filming a scene in W [...]
‘The folk scene is very middle class. The divide is huge’: Jim Ghedi, the Sheffield singer bringing his doomy music to the movies | Folk music
Last year, Jim Ghedi was having a chicken dinner at his mother’s house in Sheffield when he checked his phone. “This director started following me on [...]
Harvey Fierstein on Kinky Boots, addiction and survival: ‘When you get sober, it takes five years to get your marbles back’ | Stage
I hear Harvey Fierstein’s inimitable rasp as soon as I enter Cotton Candy Fabrics quilt store in Connecticut. The walls are lined with spirited fabri [...]
‘It needs to be loud’: Jozef Van Wissem’s one-man mission to make the lute rock again | Music
Nobody can accuse Jozef Van Wissem of doing things by halves. The musician, very likely the world’s most notorious contemporary lutenist, owns a soni [...]
Severance star Adam Scott: ‘There’s nothing wrong with being told that you resemble Tom Cruise’ | Film
The way your face changes in the Severance elevator is incredible. Are you thinking about anything in particular when you do it? Lott49We worked on t [...]