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Annabel Nugent

Features Writer and Commissioning Editor

Annabel Nugent is a Features Writer and Commissioning Editor at The Independent, covering music, TV and film. She reguarly interviews Hollywood's biggest stars and reviews music's most talked-about concerts and releases. She first joined The Independent in 2020 as a culture reporter

<p>JADE: ‘I don’t mind piping up and clapping back’</p>
The Saturday Interview

JADE: ‘No one I know came off X Factor without a mental health issue’

As one quarter of Little Mix, Jade Thirlwall breathed fresh life into British pop. Now, newly solo with a debut electro-pop hit to her name, she speaks to Annabel Nugent about the other side of fame, why she loves to ‘poke the bear a bit’ – and the joy of embracing her Arab heritage after a decade hiding it

Reviews

Severance season two is strange, stylish and totally engrossing

<p>Hanks but no hanks: the A-list actor’s latest film ‘Here’ did not perform nearly as well as expected </p>
State of the Arts

Tom Hanks has hit a low – where does he go from Here?

<p>Brooke Shields reflects on aging as a woman in the spotlight for her new book </p>
The Reading List

Brooke Shields’s book about ageing fails to realise one crucial thing

<p>Zoe Saldaña: ‘I have an energy, a fire that is very much still alive, and I want to challenge myself’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

Zoe Saldaña: ‘The Oscars tend to overlook actors using CGI technology’

<p>Cinema of solace: these films will leave you feeling uplifted and optimistic</p>
Features

The 20 best feelgood films of all time, ranked

<p>Kim Deal: ‘I look back at that and think, maybe they should’ve let me flounder – could that be better for addicts?’ </p>
Interview

Kim Deal: ‘It’s nice I lasted long enough to contemplate the past’

<p>Sophie Thatcher: ‘I’m sick of looking at myself on screen looking scared’ </p>
Rising Stars

Sophie Thatcher on Hugh Grant: ‘There is no sugar-coating with him’

Interview

David Oyelowo: ‘Like a lot of immigrants, my dad was all about work’

<p>Robin Campbell: ‘They always talk about Oasis and how big they are, but they can’t catch a cold outside of England, really’ </p>
Interview

UB40: We should be as big as Oasis – we’ve sold twice as many records

<p>‘Anger can make you self-immolate, but energy drives creativity’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

Bernardine Evaristo: ‘A Black woman hasn’t won the Booker since me’

<p>‘There’s a limit in our imagination of what women are capable of exploring in art’</p>
The Saturday Interview

Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon on His Three Daughters

Reviews

Squid Game season 2 is not as shocking – but isn’t that the point?

<p>“I was definitely a “Perks of Being a Wallflower”-style individual’ </p>
Interview

The Dare: ‘People want to return to a dirtier, less fashionable era’

<p>Annabel Scholey: ‘You lose a skin when you become a mum, which I’ve found very useful because I can access anything quickly’</p>
Interview

Annabel Scholey: ‘I thought I’d be doing less sexy roles these days’

<p>Corinne Bailey Rae: ‘I’m used to making records about my internal world: my experiences, relationships, stories I had or had heard. But this felt quite obscure'</p>
Interview

Corinne Bailey Rae: ‘Lily Allen started a campaign against me’

Interview

Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer: ‘Sweden is not safe for queer people’

<p>Fronted by Dave Bayley, Oxford outfit Glass Animals broke chart records with their 2020 hit ‘Heat Waves’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

Glass Animals: ‘I had hoped Rihanna would sing Heat Waves’

<p>Corinne Bailey Rae: ‘I’m used to making records about my internal world: my experiences, relationships, stories I had or had heard. But this felt quite obscure'</p>
Interview

Corinne Bailey Rae: ‘Lily Allen started a campaign against me’

Interview

Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer: ‘Sweden is not safe for queer people’

<p>Fronted by Dave Bayley, Oxford outfit Glass Animals broke chart records with their 2020 hit ‘Heat Waves’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

Glass Animals: ‘I had hoped Rihanna would sing Heat Waves’

<p>Jeremy O Harris’s much talked-about play arrives from Broadway to London’s Noël Coward theatre this week</p>
Features

Is London ready for Slave Play, the most divisive show of the summer?

<p>In my sights: Donald Glover and Maya Erskine as married spies in ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’ </p>
Interview

How Donald Glover and Maya Erskine put on the hottest affair on TV

<p>Tom Glynn-Carney has been praised both for his stage and screen work </p>
Interview

House of the Dragon’s Tom Glynn-Carney: ‘GoT oversexalised women’

<p>J Balvin: ‘Latinos can be whatever we want, we don’t just work in construction’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

J Balvin: ‘In the super macho man reggaeton world, I looked weak’

<p>Up next for rising star Sophie Wilde is a role opposite Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickensen in A24’s erotic thriller ‘Babygirl’</p>
Rising Star

Sophie Wilde on Talk To Me: ‘I don’t mind being a scream queen’

<p>Lulu Wang is behind Prime Video’s adaptation of Janice YK Lee’s novel ‘The Expatriates’ </p>
Interview

Lulu Wang on Expats: ‘I’ve realised that I can’t represent everyone’

<p>J Balvin: ‘Latinos can be whatever we want, we don’t just work in construction’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

J Balvin: ‘In the super macho man reggaeton world, I looked weak’

<p>Up next for rising star Sophie Wilde is a role opposite Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickensen in A24’s erotic thriller ‘Babygirl’</p>
Rising Star

Sophie Wilde on Talk To Me: ‘I don’t mind being a scream queen’

<p>Lulu Wang is behind Prime Video’s adaptation of Janice YK Lee’s novel ‘The Expatriates’ </p>
Interview

Lulu Wang on Expats: ‘I’ve realised that I can’t represent everyone’

<p>‘I never want to make someone upset with something I’ve written but also at the same time, you can’t just be nicey-nicey at the cost of writing arresting, honest music’ </p>
Interview

Marika Hackman: ‘Even before I came out, my lyrics were all super gay’

Since putting out her electro-folk debut in 2015, Marika Hackman has thrown out curve ball after curve ball with her shape-shifting sound and lyrical boldness. She meets Annabel Nugent down at the pub to chat so-called ‘songstresses’, secret crushes, and the golden rule for dating a musician

<p>Turner stars as Olympic rower Joe Rantz in George Clooney’s feel-good sports film ‘The Boys in the Boat’</p>
Interview

Callum Turner: ‘People had a hang-up over my former modelling career’

The star of ‘War & Peace’ and ‘The Capture’ talks to Annabel Nugent about his ‘period’ look, practising lines on Christmas Day, and learning to row for ‘The Boys in the Boat’

<p>Survivors of the Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes in the fuselage of the wrecked aircraft shortly after rescuers reached them</p>
Features

The horrifying true story of the Andes disaster in Society of the Snow

<p>Paloma Faith releases ‘Glorification of Sadness’ in February 2024 </p>
The Saturday Interview

Paloma Faith: ‘It was worth losing our relationship for our children’

<p>Simon Pegg: ‘It’s a great honour that any time anything bad happens, there’s a meme of me raising a pint’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

Simon Pegg: ‘People always ask when I’m going on Strictly – never’

<p>‘The goth girl lives on – she just changed her lipstick’ </p>
Features

Christina Hendricks: ‘People always think I’m going to be such a lady’

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