Adam White

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Adam White is features editor across Culture and Lifestyle at The Independent, where he writes and commissions features, essays and interviews. His work has also been published in Dazed, Huck, i-D, Playboy, The Telegraph, The i, Little White Lies, The Quietus and Nylon.

<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>

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

The actor and filmmaker, who would have turned 80 next week, had fallen into relative obscurity by the time of her death in 2018, defined by her toxic breakup from one of Hollywood’s most famous men. But her fascinating life and career, writes Adam White, is worth revisiting

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

Cult musician Mitski is a cross between Beyoncé and Marcel Marceau

<p>Dannii Minogue</p>

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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>

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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>

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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

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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

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

<p>‘We’ve seen the celebration of being gay, of gay marriage, of having children and all of those wonderful things, but not so much the splitting up’ </p>

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Luke Evans on fashion, marriage and body image: ‘I wasn’t pretty or flawless – I looked like a bloke’

<p>‘I cared too much about people not liking me. If you’ve got balls of steel, you just push on through’ </p>

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Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson: ‘We were an acceptable punching bag’

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

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

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

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

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

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

<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>

How Jonathan Glazer became our greatest and most mysterious filmmaker

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

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

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

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>

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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>

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

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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>

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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>

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

<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>

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>

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

<p>‘If the whole world had to swoon over me, I’d be like, you definitely should have found somebody else’ </p>

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Meet Jennifer Lawrence’s new leading man: a 21-year-old comedy prodigy

The 21-year-old musical theatre actor – who led Broadway’s ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ at the age of just 16 – steals the show in the year’s funniest comedy, ‘No Hard Feelings’. He talks to Adam White about nude scenes, age-gap backlash and emerging from personal tragedy

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Meet Jennifer Lawrence’s new leading man: a 21-year-old comedy prodigy

The 21-year-old musical theatre actor – who led Broadway’s ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ at the age of just 16 – steals the show in the year’s funniest comedy, ‘No Hard Feelings’. He talks to Adam White about nude scenes, age-gap backlash and emerging from personal tragedy

<p>‘If the whole world had to swoon over me, I’d be like, you definitely should have found somebody else’ </p>

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

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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>

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

<p>‘It was utterly irresistible. She was just a girl. It was a Saturday. She had a gym date later’: Sydney Sweeney in ‘Reality’ </p>

How Sydney Sweeney became America’s most unlikely whistleblower

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

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

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

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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>

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

<p>‘Oh God, I’m gonna sound really happy-clappy in this piece, aren’t I?’ </p>

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Jessie Ware: ‘I self-loathed and apologised for myself far too long’

<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>

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‘Somehow assault doesn’t matter’: Emily Watson on God’s Creatures and sex on screen

<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>

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

<p>Neil Jordan (centre), with Miranda Richardson in ‘The Crying Game’, Liam Neeson in ‘Marlowe’ and Tom Cruise in ‘Interview with the Vampire’ </p>

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Filmmaker Neil Jordan: ‘Tom Cruise as Lestat? Brad Pitt was perplexed’

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

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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‘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>

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

The east Londoner talks to Adam White about transforming into the American diva for the biopic ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’, how addiction doesn’t change the singer’s legacy, and why the aftermath of a Florence Pugh movie nearly led her to quit acting

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

The east Londoner talks to Adam White about transforming into the American diva for the biopic ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’, how addiction doesn’t change the singer’s legacy, and why the aftermath of a Florence Pugh movie nearly led her to quit acting

<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>

<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>

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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>

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‘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>

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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>

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

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

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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>

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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>

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

<p>‘I am not f***ing background music – I want you to blast it’</p>

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Tove Lo: ‘If I’d have been successful at 17, I’d be sick to this day’

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

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

<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>

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

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

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

<p>Daisy Edgar-Jones and Taylor John Smith star in ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ </p>

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Daisy Edgar-Jones: ‘I only work with future internet boyfriends’

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

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I think Dakota Johnson’s kitchen changed my life

<p>‘I realised how bitter everybody is on the internet. It’s like… oh my god, who cares? Like, go outside!’ </p>

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Soccer Mommy: ‘I’m not a witch, but I do believe in witchcraft’

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

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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>

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

The ‘Nip/Tuck’ star plays a shifty pathologist in her new Channel 4 drama ‘Suspect’. She tells Adam White why she joined Instagram at the ‘grand old age of 57’, going into autopilot after the death of her sister Natasha, and her imminent – if not quite as undressed – return to the world of ‘Lady Chatterley’

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

The ‘Nip/Tuck’ star plays a shifty pathologist in her new Channel 4 drama ‘Suspect’. She tells Adam White why she joined Instagram at the ‘grand old age of 57’, going into autopilot after the death of her sister Natasha, and her imminent – if not quite as undressed – return to the world of ‘Lady Chatterley’

<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>

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

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

<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>

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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>

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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>

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

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

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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>

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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>

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

<p>Still wondering: Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in the ‘Sex and the City’ sequel series ‘And Just Like That...'</p>

We couldn’t help but wonder… is Carrie Bradshaw still misunderstood?

<p>Lucy Punch: ‘I’ve always liked people just verging on the grotesque. Not to be friends with, of course, but just to observe’ </p>

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Lucy Punch: ‘I moved to the US as I kept getting cast as posh idiots’

<p>Kevin Williamson: ‘Me and Wes Craven were saying it’s maybe time to pass the baton'</p>

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Kevin Williamson: ‘The Scream movies are coded in gay survival’

<p>‘It’s about the emptiness of the American Dream’: Steve Schirripa, Michael Imperioli and James Gandolfini in ‘The Sopranos'</p>

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Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa: ‘James Gandolfini never felt comfortable with attention’

<p>About as hyperbolically evil as Mr Burns: Cameron Diaz in ‘The Counsellor'</p>

Is The Counsellor Ridley Scott’s secret masterpiece?

<p>‘She threw herself into things, she was a free spirit, and she took no s*** from anybody’: Katrin Cartlidge in 1994’s ‘Before the Rain’</p>

Katrin Cartlidge was the greatest actor you’ve never heard of

<p>Neil Maskell: ‘I’ve always known I could appear scary should I wish to’</p>

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Neil Maskell: ‘Tom Cruise told me he’s a really big fan’

<p>Peter Stormare: ‘When I see myself on film, I only see a giant beak and jaw – I just see the ugly things’</p>

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Peter Stormare: ‘I believe in aliens, UFOs – I pity people who don’t’

<p>Saxophone scores and phallic murder weapons: William Baldwin and Sharon Stone in ‘Sliver’</p>

Ice picks, full frontals and the grand return of the erotic thriller

They were glamorous, obscene and always seemed to star Michael Douglas – now they’re back. As Amazon unveils the sweaty throwback ‘The Voyeurs’, Adam White celebrates a genre that turned us all into stealthy pervs. Could such an X-rated resurrection finally make Hollywood sexy again?

Ice picks, full frontals and the grand return of the erotic thriller

They were glamorous, obscene and always seemed to star Michael Douglas – now they’re back. As Amazon unveils the sweaty throwback ‘The Voyeurs’, Adam White celebrates a genre that turned us all into stealthy pervs. Could such an X-rated resurrection finally make Hollywood sexy again?

<p>Saxophone scores and phallic murder weapons: William Baldwin and Sharon Stone in ‘Sliver’</p>

<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>Anthony Michael Hall: ‘If people don’t remember you, that’s when you should be worried'</p>

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Anthony Michael Hall: ‘Fame was off-putting and kind of scary’

<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>‘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>‘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’

<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’

Heart emoji: Brendan Fraser in The Mummy Returns

How Brendan Fraser became the internet’s favourite movie star

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’

Clockwise from centre: Kelsey Grammer and Moose the dog in Frasier; Charles Shaughnessy and Fran Drescher in The Nanny; the cast of Friends; Queen Latifah, Kim Fields, Erika Alexander and Kim Coles in Living Single (l-to-r); the cast of Seinfeld

The bittersweet afterlife of sitcom stardom

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’

The star of ‘Cruel Intentions’ and ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ talks to Adam White about the roles that brought him early fame, his new murder mystery ‘Big Sky’, and his ambitions behind the camera

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

The star of ‘Cruel Intentions’ and ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ talks to Adam White about the roles that brought him early fame, his new murder mystery ‘Big Sky’, and his ambitions behind the camera

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

<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’

Aldis Hodge, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Leslie Odom Jr and Eli Goree in One Night in Miami...

The stars of One Night in Miami on bringing Malcolm X and Ali to life

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’

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'

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’

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’

‘I love America in many, many ways, but I deeply want it to be better’

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Mackenzie Davis: ‘America’s election system is corrupt’

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

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!’

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Michael Madsen: ‘Weinstein never liked me – he didn’t want me in any of Quentin’s movies’

An erotic realm, clockwise from centre: Ellen Barkin and Gabriel Byrne in ‘Siesta’, Richard Tyson and Sherilyn Fenn in ‘Two Moon Junction’, David Duchovny in ‘Red Shoe Diaries’, Carré Otis and Mickey Rourke in ‘Wild Orchid’, and Audie England and Costas Mandylor in ‘Delta of Venus’

The forgotten auteur who revolutionised female desire on screen

Expensive, bizarre and unflinchingly go-for-broke: Elizabeth Berkley in ‘Showgirls'

The remarkable resurrection of Showgirls, the best-worst movie ever made

‘'If I hadn’t lived through that rough life, that hard life, maybe I wouldn’t be the performer that I am?’

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Dave Bautista: ‘Fame is overwhelming – sometimes I want to hide’

'Actresses in the comedy space aren't given the opportunities to do things beyond comedy'

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Lizzy Caplan: ‘After Mean Girls, I didn’t work again until I dyed my hair blonde and got a spray tan’

‘The stage can be stressful alone, but here, with Marty, we split the time 50/50, we’re out there together, we’re out there alone, and it’s relatively breezy’

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Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘We’re past hosting the Oscars’

‘'If I hadn’t lived through that rough life, that hard life, maybe I wouldn’t be the performer that I am?’

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Dave Bautista: ‘Fame is overwhelming – sometimes I want to hide’

'Actresses in the comedy space aren't given the opportunities to do things beyond comedy'

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Lizzy Caplan: ‘After Mean Girls, I didn’t work again until I dyed my hair blonde and got a spray tan’

‘The stage can be stressful alone, but here, with Marty, we split the time 50/50, we’re out there together, we’re out there alone, and it’s relatively breezy’

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Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘We’re past hosting the Oscars’

‘I don’t have some sort of agenda to normalise the south, but ultimately I’m writing about what I know’

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Danny McBride: ‘If you’re pushing boundaries in comedy, people will push back’

The Camden star rose to fame on the set of ‘Skins’ and has continued to reach dazzling new heights ever since

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Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I’m trying to stay fearless’

‘I knew nothing before The L Word – I was a hermit in my own little bubble’

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Jennifer Beals: ‘You can never have enough queer stories’

‘If there’s any psychological trauma associated with my work, that tends to get minimised over the years’: James Marsden and Cameron Diaz in ‘The Box’

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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly on The Box, trauma and his comeback

Teeth, hair and relentless butt shots: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu in Charlie's Angels

The original Charlie’s Angels movie is an unintentional masterpiece

‘It was done as a campy movie, because you couldn’t take it seriously’: Denise Richards in ‘Tammy and the T-Rex’ (1994)

Unearthing the wild Nineties B-movie that put Paul Walker’s brain into a T-Rex

'These girls kick ass': Dusk, Thorn and Luna of the Hex Girls in 'Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost'

The oral history of the Hex Girls, the Scooby-Doo rock band turned cult icons

‘I had nothing to gain from this film, but I had a lot to lose by remaining quiet’: Linda Hamilton in ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’

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Linda Hamilton: ‘Everyone’s terrified of James Cameron. I’m not’

Let loose in the dream factory: the author, aged six at Glastonbury 1998

The earthy magic and lawless energy of being a child at Glastonbury

Adam White recalls the years he was more interested in seeing The Corrs than Courtney Love, and when the colours, noise and fire-breathing spiders gripped his imagination

The earthy magic and lawless energy of being a child at Glastonbury

Adam White recalls the years he was more interested in seeing The Corrs than Courtney Love, and when the colours, noise and fire-breathing spiders gripped his imagination

Let loose in the dream factory: the author, aged six at Glastonbury 1998

‘Three years later, honey, and I’m still here’: Vinaite is proving to be far from a one-movie wonder

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‘I’m still here honey!’ Bria Vinaite on life after The Florida Project

‘I think most actors are a little bit lonely in one way or another’

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Emily Mortimer on nepotism, Scorsese and her transformative nude scene

Natasha Bedingfield: I sang at the White House for Obama, and my mum was like, ‘I can’t even watch it on the internet’

Interview

Natasha Bedingfield: ‘I’m in my prime right now’

'Playing the villain can sometimes be a little bit more interesting than playing somebody on the straight-and-narrow'

Interview

Haley Joel Osment: ‘There’s an expectation for darkness in child fame’

'Playing the villain can sometimes be a little bit more interesting than playing somebody on the straight-and-narrow'

Interview

Haley Joel Osment: ‘There’s an expectation for darkness in child fame’

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in ‘When Harry Met Sally’

Deconstructing the irresistible awfulness of romantic comedies

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in 'Speed'

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, and why we still want them together