Olivia Cooke had no concerns about taking the leading role in a film populated almost entirely by men Olivia Cooke had no concerns about taking the leading role in a film populated almost entirely by men. She plays the title character in director Barnaby Thompson’s belly-laugh-inducing black comedy Pixie, which opens on October 23. ‘Ever since … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Judi Dench takes the Gran prize in Kenneth Branagh’s new film By Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail Published: 01:46 BST, 4 September 2020 | Updated: 01:48 BST, 4 September 2020 Kenneth Branagh is shooting a semi-autobiographical film inspired by his early childhood growing up in Northern Ireland surrounded by a large extended … Read more
Vanessa Kirby pulls out all the stops when she prepares for a role. To portray Princess Margaret in The Crown, the actress papered her home with photographs of the Queen’s sister to ‘imbue’ herself with her style and spirit. And for the smouldering, scheming White Widow in the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible — Fallout, … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Sofa so good for the footie… Toheeb Jimoh spends entire quarantine ‘doing absolutely nothing’ but eating his mother’s Nigerian cuisine and playing FIFA By Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail Published: 02:19 BST, 31 July 2020 | Updated: 02:19 BST, 31 July 2020 Actor Toheeb Jimoh has spent the entire quarantine ‘doing absolutely … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Will Jasmine Jobson be Top Girl? After a tough start in life, the Baftas beckon for TV’s newest rising star By Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail Published: 02:03 BST, 24 July 2020 | Updated: 02:03 BST, 24 July 2020 Jasmine Jobson was 15 when she put herself into foster care, to save … Read more
Once Gemma Arterton had read the script for the film Summerland she didn’t have far to go to discuss the project. The actress lives just around the corner from playwright, filmmaker and director Jessica Swale, who wrote the wartime story of Alice Lamb, a cantankerous scholar who lives alone in a wooden cottage, perched on … Read more
One of the reasons she enjoyed filming Chemical Hearts, self-inflicted depression notwithstanding, was that she could ‘breathe and take my time’. Work on Riverdale is all ‘fast-fast-fast and go-go-go’ Lili Reinhart drew on her own struggles with anxiety and self-doubt when playing an emotionally damaged student in her latest film, Chemical Hearts. ‘I stopped working … Read more
Let it go? Never! Frozen, the £10 million musical based on the Oscar-winning film, may have had to shift its West End opening from this autumn to next spring. But the show will still reopen the magnificently made-over Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with previews starting on April 2 and a grand official opening scheduled for … Read more
Matthew Vaughn, the brains behind the Kingsman films, hopes to turn its prequel — The King’s Man — into a spy franchise to rival the James Bond pictures. Vaughn’s terrific new movie, set during the start of World War I and starring Ralph Fiennes and Gemma Arterton, is due to open in cinemas on September … Read more
The Mousetrap — the show that roared — will be the first play to reopen in the West End. Which seems only fitting, given that Agatha Christie’s murder mystery, now in its 68th year, is the world’s longest running theatrical production. ‘We will open on October 23,’ producer Adam Spiegel told me in an exclusive interview, … Read more