If anyone can make being holed up in the back of a cab for an hour feel glamorous, it’s Kristin Scott Thomas. Not that she would necessarily thank you for the compliment, for neither a simperer nor a gusher is she. Indeed, she is agreeably tough, funny, thoughtful, honest and seemingly unafraid of anything — …
Allan Cubitt, the writer of The Fall – BBC2’s highest-rating drama launch in eight years – arrives first, early for our interview. He is a slightly rumpled-looking man, with kind brown eyes. Next is Gillian Anderson, aka DSI Stella Gibson, tiny and chic in high heels, her manner immediately friendly and later quite fierce. I …
The trouble with Nicky Campbell as an interviewee is that he insists on being the interviewer. “You’ve got a nice voice, do you sing?” “Look, you’re meant to be interviewing me, but I really can’t let that go”… “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here – would you ever do that?” Practised as he is in …
Steve Coogan eventually arrives, with his personal assistant and a young colleague from his film and TV production company, Baby Cow, in tow. He looks faintly academic – tweedy wool jacket, and short grey hair – which is curiously apt, given the lecturing, occasionally hectoring, tone of much of our encounter. The last time I …
How are we to bear it? For it is quite insupportable, is it not, to think that “the little grey cells” of Belgium’s best-loved detective will soon cease to fizz. Or to consider that the fastidious patting of his waxed moustache with the corner of a pristine white napkin at the dinner table will become …
As Live at the Apollo returns tonight for a new series, read Ginny Dougary’s interview with host Eddie Izzard in which he talks about his ambitions to enter politics, learn more languages, run more marathons and start a family. The lights cascade down in neon green and flashing blue, the electronic music pounds to a …
Kim Cattrall is as demure in person as she is wild on screen, at least as the gal who is still her best-known character: the sexiest beast from Sex and the City, Samantha. I find her sitting on a dining room’s pretty curved banquette, like an indoor cabana designed for Marie Antoinette, which is rather fitting …
What’s with these Danes? They’re so tortured and gloomy on the screen and so very warm and friendly off it; it’s like the depressive comedian syndrome in reverse. Pilou Asbaek, who plays the Prime Minister’s spin doctor, Kasper Juul, in Borgen (horrendous childhood) and the ship’s cook, Mikkel, in A Hijacking (who slowly loses his mind) is …
Tim Minchin, the Australian-to-London transplant and ginger-haired, kohl-eyed, bare-footed, foul-mouthed, proudly atheist, hippy comedian, musician, composer, lyricist, actor, is in a respectable café enthusing about his bottom. There’s no one sitting near us, but even if there were, it’s doubtful that he would tone himself down. We are talking about his post-Matilda the Musical career …
Ruth Jones talks about life after Gavin & Stacey, celebrity dilemmas – and how she lost four and a half stone. Ruth Jones is standing in a burnt out (apocalypse-chic) attic looking like a creamy-skinned, voluptuous siren from the 1950s – think, Jane Russell. She’s had hours of hair and make-up and is wearing a …