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Billie Piper: ‘Any abuse of power makes me feel sick and furious’

The actor talks to Jessie Thompson about the ‘Newsnight’ interview drama ‘Scoop’, intimacy coordinators, tabloid behaviour and her time on ‘Doctor Who’

<p>Cox’s latest role is in ‘a beast of a play’ that’s ‘unremitting’ and ‘never lets you off the hook’ </p>

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Brian Cox: ‘I can’t afford $110 each for one night at the theatre’

<p>Sheryl Crow: ‘I didn’t mean to make a record’ </p>

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Sheryl Crow: ‘I’m saying the same thing about guns, 30 years later’

<p>Eugene Levy returns (hesitantly) to another season of travelling the world in Apple TV+’s ‘The Reluctant Traveller’ </p>

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Eugene Levy: ‘I’m not ruling anything out – including retirement’

<p>Norah Jones is enjoying life in the slow lane</p>

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Norah Jones on overnight fame, vulnerability and singing with Dolly

<p>‘When I heard that it was Adam Sandler on a spaceship talking to a giant spider, I was like… OK’ </p>

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Paul Dano: ‘If I could only play dorky guys with glasses, I wouldn’t want to be an actor’

<p>The pair reminisce on their greatest pranks and guests </p>

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Ant and Dec on Saturday Night Takeaway and scary stunts: ‘I thought he was a goner’

<p>‘You know when you’re going through hard times in this industry? I’ve finally made it to the top of the mountain’ </p>

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Oscar nominee Danielle Brooks: ‘I’d have made The Color Purple for $2’

<p>‘I’d much rather have a good life than a good career, but I’d love to have both’ </p>

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Domhnall Gleeson: ‘The notion of being attractive was alien to me’

The Irish actor and son of Brendan Gleeson has carved out a career that includes Hollywood blockbusters and British romcoms. Yet he is happiest hanging out with his friends in Dublin. He talks to Ellie Harrison about his new TV show ‘Alice & Jack’, about learning to see himself as a romantic lead, and what he thinks of the chocolates he gets sent each year from Tom Cruise

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Domhnall Gleeson: ‘The notion of being attractive was alien to me’

The Irish actor and son of Brendan Gleeson has carved out a career that includes Hollywood blockbusters and British romcoms. Yet he is happiest hanging out with his friends in Dublin. He talks to Ellie Harrison about his new TV show ‘Alice & Jack’, about learning to see himself as a romantic lead, and what he thinks of the chocolates he gets sent each year from Tom Cruise

<p>‘I have never in my career been invested in by the industry. Never’ </p>

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Jeffrey Wright: ‘I’m thinking about my Oscar nod more than is healthy’

<p>‘I was young and foolish. I suppose I had a certain amount of arrogance’ </p>

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Jonny Lee Miller on fame, heroin and Harvey Weinstein: ‘I felt fury’

<p>Christopher Eccleston: ‘As a child, I saw TV as overtly political. It was what I saw in the work of Dennis Potter and Alan Bleasdale, so that is what I headed for’ </p>

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Christopher Eccleston: ‘An A-list actor implied I was copping a feel’

<p>The OG Riot Grrrls are set to release ‘Little Rope’, their 11th album as Sleater-Kinney </p>

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Sleater-Kinney on tragedy and loss: ‘It tears at the scaffolding of one’s life’

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Sleater-Kinney on tragedy and loss: ‘It tears at the scaffolding of one’s life’

<p>‘I’m not necessarily posh... but there’s certainly been privilege in my life’ </p>

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EastEnders’ Himesh Patel on his move to Hollywood in just three years

<p>‘I’m pretty good at just blocking any of the noise associated with whatever fandom is – not letting it affect me, or more importantly my family’ </p>

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Jamie Dornan: ‘My stalker came to my house when my kids were there’

<p>Debut: Millie Gibson will join the Whoniverse on Christmas Day</p>

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Doctor Who’s Millie Gibson: ‘There are so many controversial elements’

The ‘Corrie’ star, who appears as the Doctor’s new companion Ruby Sunday this Christmas, has been acting since she was a teenager in Oldham. As she prepares for her biggest role to date, she talks to Katie Rosseinsky about the pressures of child acting, what it felt like to get a text from Jodie Whittaker, and how her character Ruby will reveal new aspects of the Doctor himself

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Doctor Who’s Millie Gibson: ‘There are so many controversial elements’

The ‘Corrie’ star, who appears as the Doctor’s new companion Ruby Sunday this Christmas, has been acting since she was a teenager in Oldham. As she prepares for her biggest role to date, she talks to Katie Rosseinsky about the pressures of child acting, what it felt like to get a text from Jodie Whittaker, and how her character Ruby will reveal new aspects of the Doctor himself

<p>Bella Ramsey: ‘I don’t think I’ve met anyone who’s in Chicken Run with me’</p>

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Bella Ramsey on Chicken Run 2, neurodivergence and child acting

<p>‘Regardless of your colour of your skin, regardless of how tall you are or short you are or what sex you are, regardless of how you identify, you should have the ability to play anything’ </p>

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Andy Serkis: ‘I defy anyone not to tap their foot to Michael Jackson’

<p>Simon Pegg: ‘It’s a great honour that any time anything bad happens, there’s a meme of me raising a pint’ </p>

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Simon Pegg: ‘People always ask when I’m going on Strictly – never’

<p>‘I’m an absolute neurotic hyperactive beast – I’m not necessarily good at shutting off and being cold’ </p>

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Jodie Whittaker: ‘I’m forever grief-ridden I’m not playing the Doctor’

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Jodie Whittaker: ‘I’m forever grief-ridden I’m not playing the Doctor’

<p>‘I don’t take on bad guys that are stroking their invisible moustache at the audience’</p>

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Jason Isaacs on playing Cary Grant and not being comfortable in his own skin

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Dolly Parton: ‘I have to be who I am, so I fought for that’

<p>James O’Brien: ‘I fell for Matt Hancock’s schtick for a while. I’ve got to own up to that’</p>

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LBC’s James O’Brien on the problem with Farage and being a ‘bruiser’

<p>‘How would I like to be remembered? As a feminist icon’</p>

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Uncut Gems star Julia Fox on fame, heroin addiction and dating Kanye

<p>The Rolling Stones: ‘Charlie Watts is right there, over the shoulder, and all I know is that he’s very happy that the band’s still going’</p>

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The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards: ‘Don’t get me going on modern-day music. It’s a one-way toilet’

<p>Paloma Faith releases ‘Glorification of Sadness’ in February 2024 </p>

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Paloma Faith: ‘It was worth losing our relationship for our children’

<p>Pete Townshend: ‘I was terrified of going to court. I thought I would be used as a poster boy, so I refused. I took the caution’ </p>

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Pete Townshend: How Keir Starmer confronted me over child abuse images

<p>Sebastian Faulks is due to release his 16th novel ‘The Seventh Son’ </p>

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Sebastian Faulks on rewriting Bond, literary trends and his new novel

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Paloma Faith: ‘It was worth losing our relationship for our children’

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Pete Townshend: How Keir Starmer confronted me over child abuse images

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Sebastian Faulks on rewriting Bond, literary trends and his new novel

<p>The National releases their 10th studio album ‘Laugh Track’ </p>

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The National: ‘Everything was evidence of failure’

<p>Sara Pascoe: ‘You’re supposed to be very, very grateful if IVF works’ </p>

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Sara Pascoe: ‘In my thirties, I was suddenly a “childless woman”’

<p>‘AI is like a robot taking your humanity, your soul’ </p>

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Tim Burton on cancel culture, Johnny Depp and his Beetlejuice sequel

<p>‘Yearning for justice’: Daryl McCormack and Ruth Wilson in the hard-hitting new BBC drama ‘The Woman in the Wall’</p>

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Ruth Wilson on the ‘painful past’ of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

<p>‘When I used to do stand-up earlier on in this country... there was a bit more freedom to be quite vulnerable and personal because people didn’t know who the f*** you were’ </p>

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Rose Matafeo: ‘They’re politicising my body in a way I don’t’

<p>‘I learned that anyone could play Blanche DuBois. If you just bring yourself to the role, you will be successful’ </p>

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How Patsy Ferran became the leading stage star of her generation

<p>Sir Grayson Perry: ‘There’s a lot of art around that feels like student work’ </p>

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Grayson Perry: ‘I can’t pretend to be a rebel any more’

<p>‘I wanted to make a movie where a man who really has nothing to offer becomes a movie star, just by virtue of time and place, and how he looks’ </p>

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Charlie Day: ‘Some critics act like you’ve murdered their grandmother’

<p>'The powers-that-be really hate hip-hop in a lot of ways, and they’ve been looking for ways to destroy the spirit of hip-hop, to make people fearful’ </p>

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Ice Cube: ‘Hip-hop was pure – then the agenda changed’

<p>Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy: ‘Scale in cinema is a peculiar thing’</p>

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Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy: ‘There’s nothing bigger than Oppenheimer’

<p>Turner: ‘There’s some people that I look at that I find attractive. And isn’t that OK?’ </p>

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Aidan Turner on his #MeToo tennis drama and being a sex symbol

<p>‘It’s very clear to me what a creative life is about’</p>

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Hayley Atwell: ‘There were weird rumours... it’s not what I’m about’

<p>Mark Rylance: ‘There are great benefits when someone is an immigrant to the reality they’re playing’</p>

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Mark Rylance on talking with the King, method acting and the Iraq war

<p>‘Me and Clea DuVall were, I guess, famous teen actors, but we were never allowed to feel ‘normal’. It was made clear to us that we were broken in some way’ </p>

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Natasha Lyonne: ‘I’m a broad – but that’s been a gift and a curse’

<p>Kelsey Grammer: 'Tolerance is a beautiful concept – but not particularly realised in our country’</p>

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Kelsey Grammer: ‘There have been periods where Satan got a foothold’

<p>‘I had paparazzi chasing me, people approaching me. You weren’t allowed to really be yourself’</p>

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Josh Hartnett on Black Mirror, Oppenheimer and saying no to celebrity

<p>Daisy May Cooper: ‘Judging anyone’s body is f***ing wrong’ </p>

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Daisy May Cooper: ‘People told me I’m not funny because I’m not fat’

<p>Richard E Grant: ‘After 38 years together I know I can anticipate what her response would be’ </p>

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Richard E Grant on grief, music, and his late wife Joan: ‘I still have silent conversations with her’

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Josh Hartnett on Black Mirror, Oppenheimer and saying no to celebrity

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Daisy May Cooper: ‘People told me I’m not funny because I’m not fat’

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Richard E Grant on grief, music, and his late wife Joan: ‘I still have silent conversations with her’

<p>‘I felt the need for a new adventure. I felt a sense of curiosity, wanting to approach my creativity through a different lens’</p>

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Arlo Parks on privacy, Phoebe Bridgers and pushing past her boundaries

The London-born singer-songwriter earned a legion of fans and the Mercury Prize following the release of her first album in 2021. Now, after a move overseas and a self-imposed withdrawal from the limelight, she tells Helen Brown about her return to music

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Arlo Parks on privacy, Phoebe Bridgers and pushing past her boundaries

The London-born singer-songwriter earned a legion of fans and the Mercury Prize following the release of her first album in 2021. Now, after a move overseas and a self-imposed withdrawal from the limelight, she tells Helen Brown about her return to music

<p>‘You’re not that special, which is actually such a relief to me’ </p>

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