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 …
Our interview was such fun! And with a very, what I call, Miranda Moment. At one point, I almost fell off my chair – something that Miranda, at least in her eponymous show, does a lot. Could this be “method” interviewing? We meet in a photographic studio in Fulham, south-west London. Miranda lopes down the …
If a person’s popularity can be gauged by the number of times his telephone rings, then Sir David Frost is very popular indeed. Every ten minutes, his rolling anecdotes are interrupted by the jarring blast of TRRRIINNNG! TRRRIINNNG! The volume setting is probably at its loudest because Sir David, at 72, is quite deaf now …
John Malkovich and I are ensconced in his hotel room in Recklinghausen, near Düsseldorf, having a cosy chat about murder – and, in particular, the Austrian serial killer, Jack Unterweger, who is the latest in a line of mad, bad and dangerous characters the actor has inhabited in his long career. He’s playing the celebrity …
There’s something suitably retro about the church hall in a Pimlico council estate that is the rehearsal space for the cast of Betty Blue Eyes, the new musical of Alan Bennett’s well-loved film A Private Function. While I wait for Richard Eyre, the director, to finish his morning session I am handed the script to read at …
As a sequel to the Phantom opens, he talks about his new ‘almost cool’ status, his father’s roving eye — and the joy of a dirty joke Andrew Lloyd Webber has his kind face on and is looking straight into my eyes as I sing: “Your looks are laughable, unphoto-graphable, but you’re my favourite work …
Daughter of Arthur Miller, wife of Daniel Day-Lewis… It would have been easy for Rebecca Miller to be overwhelmed by the male presences in her life. Here she talks about how she found her own creative voice, and explains why her stories are filled with echoes of the family and relationships that have shaped her. …
Nudging 80, he’s full of memories of his theatrical past, but the great director’s love of work – and family – is undimmed. Almost two decades have passed since Peter Hall and I last met. The baby that his fourth wife, Nicky Frei, was expecting then is now a 17-year-old bright spark, Emma, who thrills …
Slovenly, ignorant, inept – his attacks on fellow actors are legendary. Does he have a softer side? You definitely don’t want to be around Johnny Friendly when he smiles, and the same could be said of Steven Berkoff, who plays the murderous, most unfriendly, union boss in his play of Elia Kazan’s classic film On …