Barkhad Abdi
When I ask Barkhad Abdi how confident he is about winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on March 2, he laughs down the phone from his family’s home in Minneapolis. “I’m not confident at all,” the...
View ArticleBryan Cranston: from Breaking Bad to LBJ
“So many things can go wrong in the kitchen. It’s like baking a soufflé: it can go flat and you have no idea why.” Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston reflects, “could not have been successful, but it became...
View ArticleVanessa Paradis: “I mean, people forget we are human beings, we have kids.”
Good grief, what will Vanessa Paradis talk about? Her personal life is off-limits, I am told, as is talking about Woody Allen (her co-star in her new movie, Fading Gigolo). Perhaps we’ll start with the...
View ArticleDr. Oz: America’s Doctor
The notion of Too Much Information does not exist for Dr Mehmet Öz, or Dr Oz, as the surgeon turned TV star is more popularly known. It’s why four million largely Middle American housewives watch The...
View ArticleDawn O’Porter: “My husband was the toast of Hollywood, but I was broke”
Between forkfuls of lentil salad in a New York restaurant, TV presenter Dawn O’Porter, 35, is remembering the 2011 Baftas. She was on the red carpet with her then future husband, The IT Crowd actor...
View ArticleJoan Rivers: “I had the gun on my lap”
At The Russian Tea Room in New York City, a cocoon of plushly-furnished, shamelessly old-school luxury with red booths, Joan Rivers is directing the Entertainment Tonight crew following her for the...
View ArticleAlan Cumming: The Truth About My Father
Journalists generally shouldn’t be part of the stories they cover. But today, sitting with Alan Cumming in the Union Square vegan restaurant Peacefood Café, it’s unavoidable. I am part of the story, a...
View ArticleAnne Tyler: ‘I am not a spiritual person’
In her second floor writing room in her Baltimore home, the novelist Anne Tyler likes to keep the windows open to hear ordinary life outside. She writes in longhand, then types her words out, then...
View ArticleDolly Wells on her father, John: ‘Why didn’t he tell me? I’d like to tap on...
The writer and actor Dolly Wells is speaking earnestly about parenting – how she admires non-parents, how her children (Elsie, 13, and Ezra, 10) are her most acute critics – while we sit in a Brooklyn...
View ArticleIvanka Trump Talks Being a Mogul, a Mother, and More
Absolutely the daughter of her father—for whom the man is the brand and the brand the man—Ivanka Trump arrives on the 25th floor of the Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan wearing a dress and shoes from...
View ArticleMelissa Rivers: Anger, Grief, and Why I’m Auctioning Joan’s Possessions
On September 4, 2014, in the Mount Sinai Hospital room just after her mother Joan Rivers had died, Melissa Rivers asked for some time alone with her mother’s body. “I was just sitting there, and...
View ArticleTippi Hedren: Weinstein Reminds Me of Alfred Hitchcock’s Abuse
The actress Tippi Hedren, who says she was sexually assaulted, harassed, and had her career threatened by the director Alfred Hitchcock, knows what she would have said to Harvey Weinstein had he...
View ArticleJohn Leguizamo: I Would Give Up Acting to Run for Office in Texas
John Leguizamo emerged from the stage door of Broadway’s Studio 54 theater after a recent evening performance of Latin History for Morons, the one-man play he has written and performs, to be greeted by...
View ArticleAfter Hedwig: John Cameron Mitchell on his father’s bisexuality, his tragic...
‘Hedwig’ creator John Cameron Mitchell tells Tim Teeman about his father’s bisexuality, his parents’ Alzheimer’s, the deaths of his partner and brother, and LGBT life under Trump. The bullet hole is...
View ArticleArchitect Daniel Libeskind: How to transform horror into art, from Auschwitz...
In a candid interview with Tim Teeman, architect Daniel Libeskind talks about family and the Holocaust, his Auschwitz artwork, and facing trauma head-on at sites like Ground Zero. Daniel Libeskind...
View ArticlePose’s Sandra Bernhard on Trump, Madonna, Roseanne—and how misogyny stops...
Sandra Bernhard tells Tim Teeman she and Madonna don’t talk, Trump must go, de Blasio sucks, and while Elizabeth Warren has her vote, misogyny will kill her presidential campaign. America under Donald...
View ArticleRita Rudner on getting ‘cut’ by Bob Fosse, finding her comedy voice, sexism,...
Rita Rudner tells Tim Teeman about stand-up success, Hollywood sexism, NBC’s ‘disgraceful’ new show, her Broadway dance years, and why her humor is so different to Amy Schumer’s. The comedian Rita...
View ArticleMargaret Trudeau on son Justin, Melania Trump, drugs, Studio 54, first...
Margaret Trudeau talks to Tim Teeman about Melania Trump’s G7 gaze at her son Justin; as well as bringing her life—Canadian first lady, drugs, Studio 54, mental illness—to theater. On a trip to Mexico,...
View ArticleBrian Cox on Succession’s season 2 finale, Trump, Murdoch, Scottish...
In a candid interview with Tim Teeman, Brian Cox talks about the explosive second season finale, why he won’t play Donald Trump, and how he survived a traumatic childhood. The original plan was for...
View ArticleStefanie Powers on ‘Hart to Hart,’ Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, facing...
In a candid interview with Tim Teeman, “Hart to Hart” star Stefanie Powers talks about fame, surviving cancer, her love for William Holden and the mystery of Natalie Wood’s death. At the beginning of...
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