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The Saturday Interview

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>
Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

The Oscar-nominated star of ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ talks to Patrick Smith about ‘H Is for Hawk’, the Irish attitude to death, toxic scripts, the dangers of overenthusiastic parenting, and actors losing their looks

<p>‘Media is co-opting children so early. And it is because of the devices we have in our hands’</p>
Interview

Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I’m nearly 50. I’ve experienced grief’

The Oscar-nominated star had to go deep for his role as a grieving father in the adaptation of Max Porter’s emotional bestseller ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’. He and Porter speak to Ellie Harrison about masculinity, raising sons, and how Cumberbatch is using his Marvel cachet to get films made that ‘struggle to exist’

Interview

Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I’m nearly 50. I’ve experienced grief’

The Oscar-nominated star had to go deep for his role as a grieving father in the adaptation of Max Porter’s emotional bestseller ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’. He and Porter speak to Ellie Harrison about masculinity, raising sons, and how Cumberbatch is using his Marvel cachet to get films made that ‘struggle to exist’

<p>‘Media is co-opting children so early. And it is because of the devices we have in our hands’</p>
<p>Marina Abramović: ‘I don't like pain, really, but I like to stage painful situations in front of the public’</p>
Interview

Marina Abramović: ‘I’m going to be attacked by every British tabloid’

No one has done more to bring performance art into the mainstream. Ahead of her largest, most ambitious show to date, an erotic spectacle tapping into her Balkan heritage, the artist speaks with Annabel Nugent about creating art from the soul, the headline that got under her skin, and dying for real

Interview

Marina Abramović: ‘I’m going to be attacked by every British tabloid’

No one has done more to bring performance art into the mainstream. Ahead of her largest, most ambitious show to date, an erotic spectacle tapping into her Balkan heritage, the artist speaks with Annabel Nugent about creating art from the soul, the headline that got under her skin, and dying for real

<p>Marina Abramović: ‘I don't like pain, really, but I like to stage painful situations in front of the public’</p>
<p>‘It’s hard to be a child performer, to get out there and do the banana dance over and over and over again. It can be joyful while it can also be dehumanising’</p>
Interview

Keke Palmer: ‘I was a child actor making more money than my parents’

The ‘Nope’ and ‘One of Them Days’ actor – famed for being the star of a litany of internet memes – speaks to Adam White about the perils of online celebrity, the ‘dehumanisation’ of child stardom, and why, deep down, she’s a lot lonelier and more emotional than people might think

Interview

Keke Palmer: ‘I was a child actor making more money than my parents’

The ‘Nope’ and ‘One of Them Days’ actor – famed for being the star of a litany of internet memes – speaks to Adam White about the perils of online celebrity, the ‘dehumanisation’ of child stardom, and why, deep down, she’s a lot lonelier and more emotional than people might think

<p>‘It’s hard to be a child performer, to get out there and do the banana dance over and over and over again. It can be joyful while it can also be dehumanising’</p>
<p>‘Babygirl is very confronting. It’s a bit provocative. And if you’re uncomfortable with it, maybe it speaks to what you’re potentially going through in terms of repression’</p>
Interview

Harris Dickinson: ‘People see sex on film and think it’s real’

The sought-after British star of ‘Triangle of Sadness’ and ‘The Iron Claw’ speaks to Adam White about shooting graphic BDSM scenes with Nicole Kidman in his provocative new thriller, privilege in the acting industry, and why he’d hate for his looks to be his ‘sole currency’

Interview

Harris Dickinson: ‘People see sex on film and think it’s real’

The sought-after British star of ‘Triangle of Sadness’ and ‘The Iron Claw’ speaks to Adam White about shooting graphic BDSM scenes with Nicole Kidman in his provocative new thriller, privilege in the acting industry, and why he’d hate for his looks to be his ‘sole currency’

<p>‘Babygirl is very confronting. It’s a bit provocative. And if you’re uncomfortable with it, maybe it speaks to what you’re potentially going through in terms of repression’</p>

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