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<p>Tall drink of martini: Jacob Elordi’s recent performances show he’s capable of donning the tuxedo</p>

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Jacob Elordi would make a brilliant Bond

The ‘Wuthering Heights’ star is the latest to be declared a shoo-in for the next 007. Charm, animal magnetism, danger? He’s got those. Patrick Smith thinks they’ve found the right man

<p>That old razzle-dazzle: RAYE performs during her 2026 tour</p>

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RAYE’s tour proves she’s destined to be known as one of the greats

<p>Brian Wilson (right) while recording The Beach Boys album ‘Pet Sounds’ in 1966 in Los Angeles, California</p>

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The record label wanted another ‘California Girls’. The Beach Boys gave them a song that changed the world

<p>Chadwick Boseman’s death came as a shock to the world who had been unaware of the actor’s cancer diagnosis four years prior</p>

In focus

Chadwick Boseman play arrives in the UK six years after actor’s death

Features & Reviews

<p>Robert Duvall as the napalm-loving Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore in ‘Apocalypse Now’</p>

Tribute

Robert Duvall: The Hollywood great whose machismo held hidden depths

<p>Tony Blair in the Channel 4 documentary being aired this February</p>

Behind the Headlines

How Tony Blair became more powerful now than he ever was as PM

<p>Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in ‘Taxi Driver’</p>

inside film

How Taxi Driver turned New York into the coolest hellhole on earth

<p>Co-hosts of ‘Talking Sopranos’ Steve Schirripa and Michael Imperioli are taking their hit podcast this side of the Atlantic this month</p>

Interview

Steve Schirripa: ‘Wonderful James Gandolfini was not without problems’

The Saturday Interview

<p>Moura: ‘When you watch The Secret Agent, I kind of feel like I’m playing myself sometimes’</p>

The Saturday Interview

Targeted by his government. Now an Oscar nominee. Meet Wagner Moura

<p>‘You come off as somebody with a major attitude problem. But then you realise that the anger and frustration isn’t really going to help you’</p>

The Saturday Interview

The return of Thora Birch: ‘I wouldn’t trade child stardom... but it has a heavy price’

Rising Stars

<p>Éanna Hardwicke by Pip. Styling: Tom O’Dell. Grooming: Alexis Day.</p>

Interview

Meet the man playing Roy Keane: ‘He wasn’t afraid to p*** people off’

<p>Rising star Alfie Williams, who returns to the world of ‘28 Years Later’ with ‘The Bone Temple’</p>

Interview

Meet 28 Years Later’s 14-year-old star: ‘It’s so gory but so awesome!’

<p>Josh Finan: ‘There’s a certain amount of pressure that builds up in your body over the days’</p>

Interview

Josh Finan on his searing prison drama Waiting for the Out

<p>‘It was awful timing. It was the biggest opportunity I’d had in my career. And we weren’t allowed to talk about it’</p>

Interview

Archie Madekwe: ‘It’s easy to get lost in the bigger picture – that’s when you fall into narcissism’

Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast

Director Jacob Tierney and composer Peter Peter are guests on 'Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations'

Heated Rivalry director: 'Sex is how the two characters learn about each other'

Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations with Dave Mustaine

Dave Mustaine shares regret after releasing Megadeth’s final album

Jill Scott appeared as a guest on 'Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations' podcast

Jill Scott: ‘I love seeing a confident woman, in any shape or size’

Good Vibrations with KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall reflects on the ‘unwelcome side’ of her early fame

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