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<p>‘I don’t really like my mum watching anything of mine. I’m way too embarrassed’</p>
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David Jonsson: ‘Prison and addiction were just one step away from me’

The ‘Rye Lane’ and ‘The Long Walk’ actor plays a terrified prison inmate in his new film ‘Wasteman’. He speaks to Adam White about how the role hit close to home, his perspective on his colour-blind casting in an Agatha Christie adaptation, and why he chose to step away from the banking drama ‘Industry’ at its peak

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<p>Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in ‘Taxi Driver’</p>
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How Taxi Driver turned New York into the coolest hellhole on earth

Movies like the Martin Scorsese classic depicted the Big Apple as a scuzzy metropolis of filth and grime. And despite the reported fury of the New York Mayor’s Office, they helped define the city as we know it to this day, writes Xan Brooks
<p>Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘One Battle After Another’</p>
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Why are the stars of this year’s political Oscar faves staying quiet?

‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Bugonia’ and the forthcoming ‘The Secret Agent’ strike overt parallels to modern politics and the ongoing clown show of Donald Trump. But few have been saying it all out loud on the awards circuit this year, writes Xan Brooks

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