Tag: HollywoodNews
Stockard Channing: ‘I cried at the election of Joe Biden, thinking we were out of the woods. Wrong!’ | Life and style
Born in New York City, Stockard Channing, 82, played Rizzo in the 1978 film Grease. In 1985, she received a Tony for her performance in A Day in the [...]
Tony Jones: ‘I’m very far from being an activist’ | Australian media
It’s a blindingly dazzling day in Sydney. Sunlight glitters on the tranquil harbour waters, and moored sailboats gently sway beyond the boardwalk at [...]
‘These cooks ripped each other apart’: Dominic Sessa on playing Anthony Bourdain, kitchen bullies and the joys of being a 70s barfly | Film
Despite being just 23, Dominic Sessa is perhaps as intimately acquainted with the 1970s as those who grew up then. Although the New Jersey-born actor [...]
‘They slammed their M16s against his skull’: inside the film about Amy Goodman’s fearless reporting | Film
‘I consider an exclusive a failure,” Amy Goodman says. It is not a typical observation for a journalist to make, but it is the approach at the heart [...]
‘Am I 68? 69?’ Irvine Welsh on growing senior, getting pristine, bashing out his modern novel – and flirting with guns | Irvine Welsh
By rights, Irvine Welsh ought to be photographed somewhere gritty, looking grumpy, he says: “That’s the brand.” Beside a graffitied wall or at the do [...]
Gregg Araki on sex, film and queer resistance: ‘All the terrible shit in the world is because of sexual repression’ | Gregg Araki
Is straight sex the most perverse sex of all? Gregg Araki’s recent film makes a convincing case. Titled I Want Your Sex, the movie is a deliriously f [...]
‘I was born without self-esteem’: Hannah Einbinder on Hacks, her buzzy queer horror – and being Hollywood’s most outspoken star | Film
‘God is good all the time,” laughs Hannah Einbinder. She’s fresh off a plane from Los Angeles and curled up barefoot in an armchair. This, she says, [...]
‘Change is happening! I can cut off my hair and misbehave’: Vicky Krieps on rage, rebellion, and rejecting Hollywood | Film
Back when she was a rising actor, Vicky Krieps had her fill of people telling her what not to do. When she got pregnant in her 20s, she was advised n [...]
‘My mother was 4ft 11in and scared the hell out of people’ – Sean Astin on child stardom, The Lord of the Rings and surviving 45 years in Hollywood | Film
Sean Astin is showing me around his recent office. There’s framed movie prints on the walls, piles of paperwork and a stack of boxes of Stranger Thin [...]
Keith David on his incredible career: ‘I want you to understand Black men as full-scope human beings’ | Film
Keith David’s voice precedes him. Deep and resonant, with mellifluous notes that hark back to his boys’ choir days, it has spent decades inhabiting w [...]