Ella Hunt is elated. The rising actor has just moved up to London after quarantining with her family in Devon (“I’ve been used to days where I see more sheep than people”) and the night before our interview she had…
Though she’s currently holed up at home in Los Angeles, where she’s kept busy during lockdown by remodelling her bathroom, actress Liana Liberato is having a fantastic 2020. After starring in the moving queer coming-of-age drama To the Stars and…
Abortion is a subject that runs through the core of Saint Frances, the debut film written by and starring rising talent Kelly O’Sullivan. But until O’Sullivan’s own parents read the press coverage of the film, they didn’t know that their…
The first song I remember hearing Harry Belafonte – ‘Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)’ “I heard it when I was in my bunk bed. My dad’s office was right next to our room and he’d be in there cutting tangled-up…
“Besides my mouth, the only thing that works on my body is my cock!” It’s a line that’s played for laughs in Come As You Are, a new comedy about a disabled guy who’s desperate to lose his virginity, but…
Vinnie Jones is not one to suffer fools. During our 30-minute interview, intended to discuss the release of his new revenge thriller The Big Ugly, he calls me a “fucker” three times. I decide to take it as a term…
Over the last four years, Beanie Feldstein has marked herself out as one of the best young actors in Hollywood. She brought scene-stealing energy to her first professional film role as Nora in Bad Neighbours 2, perfectly nailed one of…
Make Up, the debut feature from British writer-director Claire Oakley, is one of this summer’s most dazzling films. An inventive hybrid of psychological horror and coming-of-age story, it’s a thrilling, prickly watch with an authentic queer thread running right through…
For a man best known as Hollywood’s spikiest villain, Ben Mendelsohn sure is happy to see us. “NME – as in New Musical Express?” he asks, just after we’re introduced on a phone call from London to his base in…
Jade Anouka hasn’t stopped during lockdown. In the space of three months, she starred in Aisha Zia’s powerful isolation video, Bedlam Before the Burnout, produced a Shakespeare video which went viral (helmed by Judi Dench, no less), as well as writing, directing…
