Adam White

<p>In ‘The Next Act’, Simon Cowell exhibits a sense of race-against-the-clock fatalism</p>

Comment

Simon Cowell is a man out of time in his sad, bleak Netflix show

The pop mogul has effectively remade ‘The X Factor’ for an era of not-very-revealing docuseries, but with the added grisliness of Liam Payne dying midway through filming. It is a strange, depressing experience, writes Adam White

'Should I become one of these people sitting and complaining about how difficult things have become? Or should I rather try and find a way? In the end, I decided to do whatever it took to keep working'

Interview

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to jail after this interview

<p>‘The film’s obviously gonna push the buttons of a certain pocket of people’: ‘Pillion’ actors Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling</p>

Interview

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling on their very, very kinky romcom

<p>‘If you go back and look at ‘Clerks’ and Amy and ‘Dogma’, [critics] were like, “this motherf***er shows promise – he’s gonna be a great one day!” And then I didn’t do that’</p>

Interview

Kevin Smith: ‘My movie is offensive, but blasphemous? Hell no!’

<p>‘I didn’t need to run away from those young ingénue roles. Honestly, I’d love to go back!’</p>

Interview

Lily James: ‘Every time I watch Alien, I go… wow, that’s my grandma!’

The star of ‘Baby Driver’, ‘The Iron Claw’ and ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ now plays a woman fleeing constant surveillance in the thriller ‘Relay’. She talks to Adam White about losing her privacy in the public eye, the time she boasted about her lineage to impress Edgar Wright, and why she has no regrets about playing Pamela Anderson

Interview

Lily James: ‘Every time I watch Alien, I go… wow, that’s my grandma!’

The star of ‘Baby Driver’, ‘The Iron Claw’ and ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ now plays a woman fleeing constant surveillance in the thriller ‘Relay’. She talks to Adam White about losing her privacy in the public eye, the time she boasted about her lineage to impress Edgar Wright, and why she has no regrets about playing Pamela Anderson

<p>‘I think my sheer bluntness makes people uncomfortable, and therein lies the humour, maybe – but I worry that if I actively tried to be funny in something, it wouldn’t be funny at all’</p>

Interview

Rebecca Ferguson: ‘I want to be in movies that twirl my intestines up’

The Reading List

Britney’s ex-husband has written a ghoulish, incomprehensible memoir

<p>‘I was basically this annoying kid with an orange bag asking too many f***ing questions. But that’s how many doors got opened’</p>

Interview

Cameron Crowe: ‘I think Bowie remembered it all. He just didn’t want to with me’

<p>‘I lashed out in this very public way that didn’t feel authentic to me. Then, suddenly, this relationship overshadows all the work I’d done’</p>

Interview

Lukas Gage: ‘I’m not broken. I’m not a liability. I’m just wired differently’

Interview

Lukas Gage: ‘I’m not broken. I’m not a liability. I’m just wired differently’

<p>Diane Keaton, who has died at the age of 79, in the 1987 film 'Baby Boom'</p>

Tribute

Diane Keaton was more complicated than her romcom persona suggests

<p>‘Nobody in the States wanted to go near anything about race. I was told I was stepping into really scary territory’</p>

Interview

Embeth Davidtz: ‘I was a child, so I absorbed the bigotry and violence around me’

<p>‘The consequences never felt real. If you’re shown a yield sign instead of a stop sign, you’re gonna just roll right into traffic’</p>

Interview

Charlie Sheen: ‘I put good and decent people through hell’

<p>Elizabeth Hurley in ‘Serving Sara’, ‘Bedazzled’ and ‘Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery’</p>

Let’s Unpack That

I spent a long, confusing week watching every Elizabeth Hurley movie

<p>Artwork for Sabrina Carpenter's new album, ‘Man’s Best Friend’</p>

Reviews

Sabrina Carpenter’s album Man’s Best Friend feels a little half-baked

‘I actually can’t remember the last modern thing I’ve done’

Interview

Austin Butler: ‘Caught Stealing felt more raw than Elvis or Dune – like I didn’t have this other skin’

<p>The British actor Rhona Mitra with one of the horses in her sanctuary in Uruguay</p>

Interview

Rhona Mitra on healing, horses and leaving Hollywood behind: ‘I had to save my soul’

<p>‘Alison dies in Scream 4 and that’s like a badge of honour to me. Like, my wife got killed by Ghostface – I’m so proud of her!’</p>

Interview

Alison Brie and Dave Franco: ‘Divulging so much personal info lately... it’s been a little scary’

<p>Sarah Jessica Parker in the ‘And Just Like That’ finale</p>

Comment

And Just Like That was a total disaster – and I’m heartbroken

<p>Rhian Teasdale of Wet Leg performs on the last night of Wilderness 2025</p>

Reviews

Wilderness Festival is glorious – once you get past the overzealous security

<p>Influential: Madonna in the video for her inescapable 1998 single ‘Ray of Light’</p>

In Focus

How Madonna’s Ray of Light became the blueprint for pop music in 2025

<p>Raynor Winn and Gillian Anderson promote the film adaptation of the now scandal-plagued ‘The Salt Path’ in April</p>

Comment

We only have ourselves to blame for the Salt Path scandal

<p>‘I’ve done all sorts of things, but you just haven’t seen them because they’re often very bad and shown at four in the morning’: Margot Kidder in 1978</p>

Inside Film

The tragedy and triumph of Superman’s Margot Kidder

<p>‘When those moments arrive where your control is threatened, I can spot it now much earlier and steer it away as politely as I can. Or if I have to be rude, I’ll be rude’</p>

Interview

Danny Boyle: ‘Some days I think I’m a great filmmaker. Other days I think I’m terrible’

<p>An extreme close-up of Telly and a 12-year-old girl making out, mouths grimly colliding, opens the film</p>

Inside Film

Thirty years later, Kids still has the power to disgust

<p>Kneecap drew such a crowd that entrances were shuttered 45 minutes before their arrival</p>

Glastonbury Festival

The Kneecap controversy is proof they’re the perfect Glastonbury band

<p>‘I’m there on this rope, thinking... I studied the classics! I wanted to do Chekhov! How did I get here?’</p>

Interview

Gina Gershon: ‘I have a lot of PTSD from Showgirls’

<p>‘She’s dead… wrapped in plastic’: Sheryl Lee as the immortal Laura Palmer in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s ‘Twin Peaks’</p>

In Focus

Twin Peaks at 35: ‘We broke all the rules – and people were horrified’

<p>‘Right now I really need to think about what kinds of movies I’ll make going forward’</p>

Interview

Steven Soderbergh: ‘Erin Brockovich wouldn’t get made today… unless you get Timothée Chalamet’

<p>‘He was someone so accustomed to being secretive, who was attracted to the idea of mystery’</p>

In Focus

Pee-wee Herman and the secret, complicated world of the man behind him

<p>Wes Anderson directs Mia Threapleton and Benicio Del Toro on the set of his new film, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’</p>

Comment

Wes Anderson isn’t in a rut, but he could do with another flop

<p>(Not) starring in a blockbuster coming to a cinema near you: Paul Mescal, Mikey Madison and Jacob Elordi</p>

Comment

Hollywood’s new A-list are rejecting franchises – I don’t blame them

<p>Endearingly British tosh: Kathy Burke and Harry Enfield in ‘Kevin & Perry Go Large’</p>

Inside Film

Like it or not, Kevin & Perry Go Large was proud British cinema – now it’s all but gone

<p>‘I had been deemed difficult and alienated the head of every major studio’: Val Kilmer in 1993</p>

Tribute

Val Kilmer was handsome, charismatic and difficult to work with – but he was worth it

Comment

Hollywood’s new A-list are rejecting franchises – I don’t blame them

Inside Film

Like it or not, Kevin & Perry Go Large was proud British cinema – now it’s all but gone

Tribute

Val Kilmer was handsome, charismatic and difficult to work with – but he was worth it

<p>‘I would never make someone feel like s***. But if someone crosses me? Then, no, I’m not nice’</p>

Interview

Louise: ‘For years I wasn’t scrutinised. Then bang – everybody had an opinion’

The pop star behind Nineties smashes including ‘Naked’ has returned with a sensational new album that she knows will take listeners by surprise. She speaks to Adam White about not wanting to be a ‘nostalgia act’, her high-profile divorce, tabloid cruelty, and the ‘non-negotiable’ that immediately halted an Eternal reunion

Interview

Louise: ‘For years I wasn’t scrutinised. Then bang – everybody had an opinion’

The pop star behind Nineties smashes including ‘Naked’ has returned with a sensational new album that she knows will take listeners by surprise. She speaks to Adam White about not wanting to be a ‘nostalgia act’, her high-profile divorce, tabloid cruelty, and the ‘non-negotiable’ that immediately halted an Eternal reunion

<p>Eighties icons: Susanna Hoffs, Michael Steele, Debbi Peterson and Vicki Peterson of the seminal pop-rock band The Bangles</p>

Interview

The Bangles: ‘If we were a boyband, we’d have just punched each other out’

<p>‘It’s hard to be a child performer, to get out there and do the banana dance over and over and over again. It can be joyful while it can also be dehumanising’</p>

Interview

Keke Palmer: ‘I was a child actor making more money than my parents’

<p>‘Actors tend to get along. We’re like a tribe, a family. Every once in a while there’s somebody you’d like to push down the stairs’</p>

Interview

Christopher Walken: ‘I’m a very normal person’

Pop culture icons Pamela Anderson and Farrah Fawcett both transferred from pin-up fame into late-career dramatic work

Inside Film

Pamela Anderson deserves the dramatic career Farrah Fawcett wasn’t allowed to have

Inside Film

Pamela Anderson deserves the dramatic career Farrah Fawcett wasn’t allowed to have

<p>‘The label went bust, but I had the independent spirit in me – I remember putting pictures of Rosie the Riveter all over my little recording studio, just telling me I could do it’</p>

Interview

Cyndi Lauper: ‘I didn’t think my lyrics were so nasty’

<p>‘I always think I’m so chill, but my kids have told me that I’m laser-focused, too. So bloody hell, I must be then’ </p>

Interview

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’

<p>‘Babygirl is very confronting. It’s a bit provocative. And if you’re uncomfortable with it, maybe it speaks to what you’re potentially going through in terms of repression’</p>

Interview

Harris Dickinson: ‘Being desired is not something I’ve been particularly used to’

<p>‘I know the show had quite an impact but I do forget about it – Xena doesn’t exactly follow me around’ </p>

Interview

Xena star Lucy Lawless: ‘I’m a cult person… I’m not a corporate girl’

Cate Blanchett: ‘I think my natural state is to dig a little hole underground and burrow in for the winter’

Interview

Cate Blanchett on her wild new film: ‘I can’t talk about the monkey brains – I signed an NDA’

<p>‘Now I do it all – I can play ambassadors and I can play shells’</p>

Interview

Isabella Rossellini: ‘I was afraid to be compared to my mother’

Reviews

Charli XCX brings her brazen, bass-heavy Brat Summer to Manchester

<p>‘For the longest time, I gave myself value as a human because of my work. So when I potentially saw it ending, I was like, who even am I?’ </p>

Interview

Scream’s Melissa Barrera on her year in Hollywood exile: ‘I felt like my life was over’

<p>‘If you’re not making someone money, they sure as f*** don’t look after you’</p>

Interview

Vanessa Feltz: ‘My ex of 16 years was an utter publicity fiend’

<p>Big eyes: An untitled sketch from Tim Burton’s ‘Boy Series’, on display at ‘The World of Tim Burton’</p>

In Focus

Tim Burton’s new exhibition and the making of a haven for weirdos

<p>‘We’re making intellectual and factual improvements, but when the old basic instinct kicks in? We get pulled back into the cave’ </p>

Interview

Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James: ‘I was the leader and never a victim’

The frontwoman of one of Britain’s most anarchic Eighties pop bands is back with her seventh solo album. She speaks to Adam White about sex appeal in the public eye, her harsh treatment by the tabloids, and why she left London for New York in 2002 and never looked back

Interview

Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James: ‘I was the leader and never a victim’

The frontwoman of one of Britain’s most anarchic Eighties pop bands is back with her seventh solo album. She speaks to Adam White about sex appeal in the public eye, her harsh treatment by the tabloids, and why she left London for New York in 2002 and never looked back

<p>‘“The Substance” is not a glamour role. I knew going in that I had to be vulnerable and raw’ </p>

Interview

Demi Moore: ‘I had to let go of any parts of me that value perfection’

<p>‘Comedy is their love language’: Harper Steele and Will Ferrell, the stars of the new Netflix documentary ‘Will & Harper’ </p>

Interview

Will Ferrell: ‘I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me’

<p>‘For me, when the noise gets really loud, I like to centre in on this feeling of, like, “You’re not gonna take away my joy”’ </p>

Interview

Elliot Page: ‘My queerness is what made Juno extra special’

<p>‘I haven’t played the quote-unquote ‘leading lady’ in a very long time. And I appreciate it more the second time around'</p>

Interview

Carol Kane: ‘In comedy, you have a little more leeway with your looks’

Interview

Carol Kane: ‘In comedy, you have a little more leeway with your looks’

<p>Comic genius: Lisa Kudrow in ‘Time Bandits’, ‘The Comeback’, ‘Friends’, ‘Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion’ and ‘The Opposite of Sex’ </p>

Features

How did we miss Lisa Kudrow’s comic genius all this time?

<p>Shannen Doherty was sharp, icy, and a tiny bit dangerous</p>

Tribute

Shannen Doherty was honest, irresistible – and often underrated

<p>‘I’m not going to see “Longlegs”. I know that’s not me up there’ </p>

Interview

Alicia Witt on grief, catharsis and Longlegs

<p>At Glastonbury 2024, Charli XCX played a tiny set at Levels while Dua Lipa headlined the Pyramid Stage</p>

Comment

Charli XCX’s tiny set proved Glastonbury misjudged our big pop girls

<p>‘When I got to “Saturday Night Live”, it was a time of super-strong, powerful, funny women – I was very aware that other people had a completely different experience with it’</p>

Interview

Amy Poehler: ‘You don’t need a chaotic work environment to be funny’

<p>Pretty, calming and aggressively OK: Dido’s 1999 album ‘No Angel’ </p>

Features

The pleasure and tedium of Dido’s No Angel at 25

<p>‘If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business,’ Locke said in 1977. ‘You weren’t part of Hollywood’ </p>

Features

The tragedy of Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood’s breathtaking muse

<p>A delicate dance between Mitski the artist and Mitski the idol: the singer-songwriter performs at London’s Eventim Apollo</p>

Reviews

Cult musician Mitski is a cross between Beyoncé and Marcel Marceau

Interview

Dannii Minogue: ‘I wanted to stand up, walk off the show and run’

<p>‘I’ve never had a good sense of picking projects that make money. That’s just never been how my brain works’ </p>

Interview

Mary Elizabeth Winstead on fame, Tarantino and working with husband Ewan McGregor

<p>‘I have a soapbox to stand on and something worth saying’ </p>

Interview

Olivia Williams on her ‘harrowing’ time on Friends and playing Queen Camilla: ‘I had queasy moments’

The star of ‘The Sixth Sense’ and ‘Rushmore’ tells Adam White about living with cancer, her anxiety that appearing in ‘The Crown’ would make life more difficult for the royals, and her new dark comedy film

Interview

Olivia Williams on her ‘harrowing’ time on Friends and playing Queen Camilla: ‘I had queasy moments’

The star of ‘The Sixth Sense’ and ‘Rushmore’ tells Adam White about living with cancer, her anxiety that appearing in ‘The Crown’ would make life more difficult for the royals, and her new dark comedy film

'I didn’t have to emote. I didn’t have to be sad. I didn’t have to despair!’

Interview

Maura Tierney on The Iron Claw, Joe Rogan and the aftermath of ER: ‘I need to stop playing women in despair’

<p>‘When I heard that it was Adam Sandler on a spaceship talking to a giant spider, I was like… OK’ </p>

Interview

Paul Dano on Spaceman, superhero fatigue and Daniel Day-Lewis

<p>‘I was young and foolish. I suppose I had a certain amount of arrogance’ </p>

Interview

Jonny Lee Miller on fame, heroin and Harvey Weinstein: ‘I felt fury’

<p>‘I think a lot of his stuff can be quite shocking for people’: Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Birth’, ‘The Zone of Interest’, ‘Sexy Beast’ and ‘Under the Skin’ (clockwise from top right)</p>

Features

How Jonathan Glazer became our greatest and most mysterious filmmaker

Features

How Jonathan Glazer became our greatest and most mysterious filmmaker

<p>Fond of your face: Bridget Fonda at a premiere in 1999, and in films ‘Single White Female’, ‘Scandal’ and ‘Jackie Brown’</p>

Features

Bridget Fonda: the Nineties great who vanished without a trace

<p>‘I’m pretty good at just blocking any of the noise associated with whatever fandom is – not letting it affect me, or more importantly my family’ </p>

Interview

Jamie Dornan on The Tourist, Marvel rumours and his Fifty Shades stalker

<p>‘I’d watch Sofia Coppola’s movies and I’d just think: oh my god, this is so punk!’</p>

Interview

Cailee Spaeny on playing Priscilla Presley: ‘Their marriage was strange and shocking’

Interview

Patricia Clarkson on standing up to Weinstein and fighting for trans rights

<p>‘The best movies always make you uncertain about things’: Filmmaker Todd Haynes (centre), alongside (left to right) Cate Blanchett in ‘I’m Not There’, Julianne Moore in ‘Far from Heaven’ and Blanchett in ‘Carol’ </p>

Interview

Todd Haynes on May December: ‘All my movies feel headed for disaster’

<p>‘How would I like to be remembered? As a feminist icon’</p>

Interview

Julia Fox on fame, addiction and dating Kanye: ‘Men feel entitled to consume your beauty’

<p>Taylor Swift re-releases her 2014 pop classic ‘1989’ as the fourth of six planned re-recordings</p>

Reviews

Taylor Swift re-records her pop classic 1989 to diminishing returns

<p>Britney Spears, photographed performing in 1999, has written a memoir so breathtaking in its rage that you can practically see the spittle on its pages</p>

Reviews

The Britney memoir is raw, unfiltered and breathtaking in its rage

<p>‘My whole career has been this ridiculous series of “Sliding Doors” moments’</p>

Interview

Boy Parts author Eliza Clark: ‘Everything’s become bland – people don’t want the slop anymore’

<p>‘We were talking about desire, about carnal knowledge. Sex scenes were necessary’ </p>

Interview

Pedro Almodóvar on love, Bowie and gay cowboys: ‘I wanted to see if I could do a different kind of sexy’

<p>‘My high school teacher always said, “Jordan, use your powers for good and not evil”. Because he saw that I was capable of using them for evil’ </p>

Interview

How comedian Jordan Firstman went from Marvel to having real sex on film

<p>The cast that deserved better: the stars of ‘And Just Like That...’ </p>

Comment

And Just Like That... is the worst show on television

<p>‘I knew I had to work hard to be better, to always take chances and always dare to suck and take big swings. I’ve tried never to play it safe’ </p>

Interview

Rebecca Romijn: ‘I wanted to do my trans character justice – and make her as hot as possible’

<p>‘Me and Clea DuVall were, I guess, famous teen actors, but we were never allowed to feel ‘normal’. It was made clear to us that we were broken in some way’ </p>

Interview

Natasha Lyonne: ‘I’m a broad – but that’s been a gift and a curse’

<p>‘I think when you’re young, some people have that chill already – I just had pretty intense angst'</p>

Interview

Into the Wild’s Emile Hirsch on remorse, wanderlust and child stardom

<p>‘I had paparazzi chasing me, people approaching me. You weren’t allowed to really be yourself’</p>

Interview

Josh Hartnett on Black Mirror, Oppenheimer and saying no to celebrity

Interview

Natasha Lyonne: ‘I’m a broad – but that’s been a gift and a curse’

Interview

Into the Wild’s Emile Hirsch on remorse, wanderlust and child stardom

Interview

Josh Hartnett on Black Mirror, Oppenheimer and saying no to celebrity

<p>‘Simon Cowell said, “This is gonna be really big.” And I just wanted to cry’ </p>

Interview

Alison Goldfrapp: ‘I got letters from Americans saying that I was inciting bestiality’

<p>‘If you’re a queer person of a certain generation, you think about death daily’ </p>

Interview

‘I had shame that stayed with me’: Russell Tovey on sex, death and Derek Jarman

<p>‘Years ago there wasn’t any kind of HR department on a film. Everybody’s job was just to get the movie made, and you didn’t want to rock that boat’ </p>

Interview

‘Somehow assault doesn’t matter’: Emily Watson on her new rape drama

<p>‘My family always wanted me to be very proper and conventional. But I didn’t want to be known as the Hilton Hotel granddaughter’</p>

Interview

‘I’ve been violated my whole life’: Paris Hilton on sexism, #MeToo and surviving fame

<p>‘A lot of times when grief happens, tragedy happens. Human beings reach for anything to numb the pain’ </p>

Interview

Zach Braff on depression, Manic Pixie Dream Girls and Florence Pugh

<p>‘When people ask how it feels to be nominated, it’s strange. I really feel nothing. If I can be completely honest, it’s more like, oh dear,’ says Chau </p>

Interview

The Whale’s Hong Chau on backlash, awards and hitting Brendan Fraser

<p>‘The very thing that makes you able to achieve something difficult – that’ll be the same thing that’ll kill you’ </p>

Interview

Jason Segel on Shrinking, puppets, and tiring of How I Met Your Mother

<p>‘I’ve always had a very specific sense of right and wrong, and it was hard to have that in this business... because there were a lot of wrongs’ </p>

Interview

Sarah Michelle Gellar on slaying, sexism and surviving Hollywood

<p>‘I feel more confident, I don’t feel as raw. If [my work] is rejected, I’m not gonna die’</p>

Interview

‘I’ve not led a traditional life’: Kate Hudson on nepo babies, cancel culture and Glass Onion

<p>‘I love being in front of the camera and telling stories, but [fame] feels alien to me. I can already see my life changing’ </p>

Interview

Naomi Ackie on playing Whitney Houston: ‘I know I’m putting myself in the firing line’

<p>‘She’s the people’s pop star. She doesn’t seem to have that bravado’: Filmmaker Alek Keshishian with Madonna in 1991 and Selena Gomez in 2022</p>

Interview

Alek Keshishian on Madonna, Selena Gomez and the art of documenting pop stardom

<p>‘It felt like people always wanted me to be on the side. To play the sidekick. But I knew I had more to say’ </p>

Interview

‘I needed therapy’: Brian Tyree Henry on grief, loneliness and Causeway

<p>‘Kicking around, taking the subway into the city from deep Brooklyn, trying to figure out how to live on five bucks a day… all that stuff sounds clichéd now, but that was really how it went down’ </p>

Interview

John Slattery: ‘When Jon Hamm walked into a room, people would go catatonic’

<p>‘The Crown humanises the royal family, and it shows that if you prick them they bleed like anybody else’ </p>

Interview

Lesley Manville: ‘Is there anybody left that thinks The Crown is a documentary?’

Interview

‘I needed therapy’: Brian Tyree Henry on grief, loneliness and Causeway

Interview

John Slattery: ‘When Jon Hamm walked into a room, people would go catatonic’

Interview

Lesley Manville: ‘Is there anybody left that thinks The Crown is a documentary?’

<p>‘When I first came to Hollywood, I would wear sexy outfits and be this other person, but it wasn’t who I was in real life’ </p>

Interview

Jennifer Tilly: ‘I love sex scenes! Who wouldn’t love sex scenes?’

<p>‘I’ve had friends die because they were trying so hard to be something that they weren’t. Eventually you buckle under the weight of that’ </p>

Interview

Clea DuVall: ‘It was the 1990s – I was very closeted and very afraid’

<p>‘I don’t make as much money as other people do. I don’t date famous people. I’m not on social media… But fame comes at a price, and it wasn’t one that I was willing to pay’ </p>

Interview

Famke Janssen: ‘After GoldenEye, I felt thrown to the wolves’

<p>‘I feel like my name isn’t mentioned without “underrated” going before it’ </p>

Interview

Julianne Nicholson: ‘Blonde has been revered and brutalised and I get both sides’

<p>There were no secrets with Anne Heche, no denial of her demons</p>

Tribute

Anne Heche was my favourite actor – she should have been yours, too

<p>Dish person: Dakota Johnson in her celebrated kitchen for Architectural Digest </p>

Design

I think Dakota Johnson’s kitchen changed my life

<p>‘I thought... I need to get out of this film, because I think this guy’s a bit of a lunatic’ </p>

Interview

Judy Davis: ‘My honesty has definitely got me in trouble’

<p>‘Growing up, everyone around me had such huge opinions about everything. I found that I didn’t, and that was a bit scary,’ says Richardson </p>

Interview

Joely Richardson: ‘You’re always a work in progress’

<p>‘They meant well, they wanted to save me. But they said, “Vicky, you have to change your approach.”’ </p>

Interview

Vicky Krieps: ‘I’m not a punk any more, but rebellion is just in me’

The star of ‘Phantom Thread’ talks to Adam White about her new ‘surreal, ghost-like’ film, why Hollywood small-talk is like eating cardboard, and the striking contrast between herself and Daniel Day-Lewis

Interview

Vicky Krieps: ‘I’m not a punk any more, but rebellion is just in me’

The star of ‘Phantom Thread’ talks to Adam White about her new ‘surreal, ghost-like’ film, why Hollywood small-talk is like eating cardboard, and the striking contrast between herself and Daniel Day-Lewis

<p>Busy Philipps: ‘This person was like, “She just annoys me – she’s too much.” And I’m like, I get it! I wish I could unfollow myself sometimes, too’ </p>

Interview

Busy Philipps: ‘I was just grossed out by Hollywood’

<p>‘We had no illusions that we were making the next Billy Elliot’: ‘Men’ stars Rory Kinnear and Jessie Buckley</p>

Interview

Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear on the provocative and perplexing Men

<p>Simu Liu: ‘Me and my parents were almost irreconcilable – every single day was torture’</p>

Interview

Simu Liu: ‘I wanted so badly to be hot, to be desired… who doesn’t?’

<p>Sissy Spacek: ‘I represented the young everywoman of the Seventies, and then one thing led to another...’ </p>

Interview

Sissy Spacek: ‘I represented the young everywoman, then one thing led to another…’

Interview

Sissy Spacek: ‘I represented the young everywoman, then one thing led to another…’

<p>Raven Smith: ‘The thing I’m most proud of is not quite fitting into a box’ </p>

Interview

Raven Smith: ‘Men are a club I was born into that I still don’t get’

<p>Patricia Arquette: ‘As an actor, I need my whole life of experience and the things that I feel: my life and my losses’</p>

Interview

Patricia Arquette: ‘I’ve always been a little anti-establishment’

<p>Connoisseurs of roads: Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix of ‘My Own Private Idaho’</p>

Interview

Gus Van Sant on 30 years of My Own Private Idaho

<p>‘It’s important to get so close to your actors that you’re their husband, their wife and their shrink’: Adrian Lyne and Glenn Close on the set of ‘Fatal Attraction'</p>

Interview

Adrian Lyne: ‘When filming sex scenes, I act as a kind of cheerleader’

<p>The ‘Friends’ after ‘Friends’: Jennifer Aniston in ‘Cake’, Courteney Cox in ‘Scream’, Lisa Kudrow in ‘The Comeback’, David Schwimmer in ‘Intelligence’, Matthew Perry in ‘Go On’ and Matt LeBlanc in ‘Top Gear’</p>

Features

Which of the Friends has had the best post-Friends career?

<p>Alana Haim: ‘My sisters both had jobs – they were learning, doing their thing. And then there was just me. I had nothing’</p>

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Alana Haim: ‘Loves that feel like cinema are the ones that stick’

<p>Isla Fisher: ‘Comedy is the most vulnerable sort of performance. If you miss the mark, there’s nothing to catch you’</p>

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Isla Fisher: ‘Instagram is toxic for kids and filled with fake news’

<p>Martha Plimpton: ‘You should not ask anyone famous and under 35 their opinion on f***ing anything’</p>

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Martha Plimpton: ‘I was only intimidating to misogynists’

<p>James Cromwell: ‘We must speak truth to power – that’s where change comes from’ </p>

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James Cromwell: ‘At a certain age, you have everything taken from you’

<p>Celebrity victims: Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy and Neve Campbell in the original ‘Scream'</p>

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Scream has always been a better satire of fame than of horror movies

<p>Joshua Jackson: ‘Fame is notoriety, but it’s also access, and that can lead to some pretty dark places’ </p>

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Joshua Jackson: ‘The process of not being a d*** is a lifelong one’

<p>Rachael Leigh Cook: ‘Weird was my happy place. If it was something strange, I wanted in on it’</p>

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Rachael Leigh Cook: ‘I was never at the top of the pretty-girl list’

<p>‘It’s really a snapshot in time of what I was feeling’: Michelle Branch performs tracks from ‘The Spirit Room' in Taipei in 2002</p>

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Michelle Branch helped raise a generation of angsty romantics

<p>Ramy Youssef: ‘The representation that I care about is emotional representation’</p>

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Ramy Youssef: ‘There’s no, “Yo, Muslims, here’s your show”’

<p>‘Nobody' star Connie Nielsen: ‘America is terrifying – I insisted that my kids practise self-defence and karate’</p>

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Connie Nielsen: ‘I’ve been the token woman in so many films’

<p>Silent witness: ‘My voice was cracking, but then I was like: it doesn’t even matter, because we don’t talk much in this movie anyway’</p>

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Noah Jupe: ‘In a zombie apocalypse, I’m gonna call up Emily Blunt’

<p>John Hawkes: ‘I’ve always pulled for the underdog, and the underdog rarely wins'</p>

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John Hawkes: ‘I play a lot of characters who you might want to avoid’

Mythic Quest’s F Murray Abraham: ‘After Amadeus, I became known as a “heavy”, but I’ve always preferred to make people laugh’

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F Murray Abraham: ‘I was a pain in the ass, but I’m wonderful now’

<p>‘Even if I took pies in the face, or got tarred and feathered and ran out of town, I wasn’t going to change’</p>

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Liz Phair: ‘I feel like I’m the youngest of the old people’

With her seminal 1993 debut ‘Exile in Guyville’, the singer-songwriter dismantled the rock patriarchy and provided a generational touchstone for the young and the reckless. As she releases her first album in 11 years, she talks to Adam White about backlash, Britney, and her plans to leave music behind her

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Liz Phair: ‘I feel like I’m the youngest of the old people’

With her seminal 1993 debut ‘Exile in Guyville’, the singer-songwriter dismantled the rock patriarchy and provided a generational touchstone for the young and the reckless. As she releases her first album in 11 years, she talks to Adam White about backlash, Britney, and her plans to leave music behind her

Angourie Rice: ‘If I ever expect people to know who I am, I’d be very worried for me'

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Angourie Rice: ‘When you’re a kid actor, you feel like an annoyance’

Lee Daniels: ‘I know I’m in a lane of my own’

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Lee Daniels: ‘No one sees the world the way I see it’

<p>‘Big Sky’ star Ryan Phillippe: ‘You want to be a part of something that gets people talking’</p>

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Ryan Phillippe: ‘The type of movies I used to make are virtually gone’

<p>James Caan, photographed in 1974: ‘I wish I had an Academy Award – I sound like I’m bitter, and I am!’</p>

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James Caan: ‘I was Mr Tough Guy – they wouldn’t let me do much else’

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James Caan: ‘I was Mr Tough Guy – they wouldn’t let me do much else’

Nigella Lawson eats pasta with nduja and cavolo nero (alone) in Cook, Eat, Repeat

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Nigella Lawson has taught us the pleasure of being alone

David LaChapelle: ‘My work was sexy, but there was always a lot of fun’

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David LaChapelle: ‘Britney and Paris were trailblazers’

‘I’ve discovered how to be kinder to myself, and that’s a tough thing for a wrestler to say’

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David Arquette: ‘I can out-crazy most people’

‘I don’t mean to get high and mighty about it but art has a responsibility to push the envelope and push boundaries and deal with difficult subjects’

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Kevin Bacon: ‘I think of myself as an actor, and not a movie star’

Abel Ferrara: ‘The Driller Killer was young, healthy and rockin’ – he didn’t know how good he had it!’

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Abel Ferrara: ‘It’s a miracle that I’m still alive’

‘I’ve always felt a kinship to things a little wilder and more unconventional’

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Alden Ehrenreich: ‘Han Solo isn’t a huge part of my life anymore'

Behind you: Michael Caine and Nancy Allen in 'Dressed to Kill'

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Scream queens: Remembering the short-lived queer villains of horror

‘I’m really f***ing honest, and that gets me in trouble sometimes’: Thorne at the Venice Film Festival in 2019

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Bella Thorne: ‘People think that I’m this crazy party girl’

Camp genius: Vintage workout videos by Angela Lansbury, Linnea Quigley, Cher, Jane Fonda, Alyssa Milano and Mark Wahlberg

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Spandex, sweat and sexy talk: The weird world of celebrity workout videos

Sheedy in 1985’s ‘The Breakfast Club’: ‘As time went on, the white men’s club in Hollywood became more and more uncomfortable’

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Ally Sheedy: ‘The Brat Pack label was undermining – and the ladies weren’t part of it anyway!’

Actor Parker Posey, who narrates and executive produces the new documentary ‘The Booksellers’

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Parker Posey: ‘Everyone has a little universe inside them’

An icon of Nineties indie film courtesy of her roles in ‘Dazed and Confused’ and ‘Party Girl’, Parker Posey talks to Adam White about grief, time travel and how the offer of a part in an Adam Sandler movie showed her that she and Hollywood no longer saw eye to eye

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Parker Posey: ‘Everyone has a little universe inside them’

An icon of Nineties indie film courtesy of her roles in ‘Dazed and Confused’ and ‘Party Girl’, Parker Posey talks to Adam White about grief, time travel and how the offer of a part in an Adam Sandler movie showed her that she and Hollywood no longer saw eye to eye

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