Louis Chilton

Senior Culture Writer

Louis Chilton is a senior culture writer specialising in features, profile interviews, and comment pieces. He is one of the current writers of the Inside Film column. He has been at The Independent since 2020, when he joined as a video games reporter.

<p>Jesse Plemons: ‘Life is very strange and disorienting and dizzying at times’</p>
the saturday interview

Jesse Plemons: ‘Gaining weight messed me up a bit’

The actor who terrified us in ‘Breaking Bad’ and the recent ‘Civil War’ talks to Louis Chilton about working with Robert De Niro in Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’, flubbing his audition for ‘Star Wars’, and child acting

<p>Katherine Waterston: ‘Actors are usually in a sort of first date state with their co-stars'</p>
the saturday interview

Katherine Waterston: ‘I felt a lot of shame about playing mothers’

The US star of ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and ‘Alien: Covenant’ talks to Louis Chilton about reuniting with Michael Fassbender for Paramount’s new spy thriller ‘The Agency’, yearning for a return to the old Hollywood studio system, and the ‘waste and recklessness’ of franchise filmmaking

the saturday interview

Katherine Waterston: ‘I felt a lot of shame about playing mothers’

The US star of ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and ‘Alien: Covenant’ talks to Louis Chilton about reuniting with Michael Fassbender for Paramount’s new spy thriller ‘The Agency’, yearning for a return to the old Hollywood studio system, and the ‘waste and recklessness’ of franchise filmmaking

<p>Katherine Waterston: ‘Actors are usually in a sort of first date state with their co-stars'</p>
<p>Babydaddy, Del Marquis and Jake Shears of the newly reformed Scissor Sisters</p>
interview

Scissor Sisters on reunion: ‘We didn’t make sense anywhere but the UK’

Exclusive: Twelve years after breaking up, the Noughties pop sensations are marking the anniversary of their debut album with a new tour. Louis Chilton speaks to Jake Shears, Babydaddy and Del Marquis about reforming, being embraced by the UK, and why they initially pushed back on ‘the gay thing’

<p>Hannah Gadsby: ‘Comics are unwilling to call out their peers – and that’s where the rot sets in’</p>

Hannah Gadsby: ‘I’m not Taylor Swift. I’ve got grit and I will use it’

The genderqueer comedian talks to Louis Chilton about life after the Netflix special ‘Nanette’, their new show, online attacks from ‘bitter people’ and ‘stirring the pot’

<p>Ian McShane: ‘When you make big movies like John Wick, it’s like you’re a small army that takes over town'</p>

Ian McShane on Deadwood, Twitter, and growing bored with American Gods

The star of ‘John Wick’ speaks to Louis Chilton about intimacy coordinators, playing an ageing hitman in his new film ‘American Star’, and drawing the ire of ‘Game of Thrones’ fans

<p>Jason Isbell: ‘I’m not Adele, people aren’t paying to hear my beautiful voice’ </p>
interview

Americana star Jason Isbell: ‘I can handle rednecks but not Nazis’

The Grammy-winning artist speaks to Louis Chilton about his latest album ‘Weathervanes’, and working with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

<p>The legend of Griselda: Sofia Vergara as drug baron Blanco in Netflix’s new miniseries</p>
the moment

In Griselda, drug dealing is now as thrilling as a tax return

Netflix’s latest miniseries looks at the story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug baron who took over the Miami cocaine scene in the 1980s. It’s nothing but crime story clichés, says Louis Chilton – when did drug dealing become so tedious to watch?

the moment

In Griselda, drug dealing is now as thrilling as a tax return

Netflix’s latest miniseries looks at the story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug baron who took over the Miami cocaine scene in the 1980s. It’s nothing but crime story clichés, says Louis Chilton – when did drug dealing become so tedious to watch?

<p>The legend of Griselda: Sofia Vergara as drug baron Blanco in Netflix’s new miniseries</p>
<p>David Cross: ‘Netflix paid for Arrested Development and they can do whatever the f*** they want with it'</p>
interview

David Cross: ‘My daughter is spoilt and I resent her for being rich’

The ‘Arrested Development’ star speaks to Louis Chilton about life, politics and everything in between, ahead of his new UK stand-up tour, ‘Worst Daddy in the World’

interview

David Cross: ‘My daughter is spoilt and I resent her for being rich’

The ‘Arrested Development’ star speaks to Louis Chilton about life, politics and everything in between, ahead of his new UK stand-up tour, ‘Worst Daddy in the World’

<p>David Cross: ‘Netflix paid for Arrested Development and they can do whatever the f*** they want with it'</p>
<p>Kelsey Grammer: 'Tolerance is a beautiful concept – but not particularly realised in our country’</p>
the saturday interview

Kelsey Grammer: ‘There have been periods where Satan got a foothold’

The ‘Cheers’ star is a born-again Christian and plays a controversial real-life pastor in new film ‘Jesus Revolution’. He talks to Louis Chilton about faith, loss, and the return of Frasier Crane

the saturday interview

Kelsey Grammer: ‘There have been periods where Satan got a foothold’

The ‘Cheers’ star is a born-again Christian and plays a controversial real-life pastor in new film ‘Jesus Revolution’. He talks to Louis Chilton about faith, loss, and the return of Frasier Crane

<p>Kelsey Grammer: 'Tolerance is a beautiful concept – but not particularly realised in our country’</p>

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