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
Oscar-nominated star Florence Pugh ‘dropped everything’ to narrate a hard-hitting BBC documentary about medical staff at an Italian hospital battling to save lives in the early days of the pandemic. ‘I can barely cry,’ says Dr Francesca Mangiatordi, her haunted face staring into a laptop at the Cremona Hospital in Lombardy, Northern Italy. Documentarian Sasha … Read more
The actor Sope Dirisu is right at the centre of the bone-crunching action in television thriller Gangs Of London, in which he’s shot at, stabbed — and stomped on, just for good measure. The nine-part crime series has become one of Sky’s biggest hits. Shown at the height of the virus shutdown, it features Dirisu as … Read more
Richard E. Grant is ready for his closeup…as a drag queen. The Oscar-nominated actor has undergone a head-to-toe transformation for the feature film version of stage hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie: hair concealed under what he described as a ‘Folies Bergere meets Mrs Thatcher 80s-style wig’, feet squeezed into a pair of Jimmy Choo’s. … Read more
Sometimes, dreams do come true. Nicole Raquel Dennis was just ten years old when she knew she had to be a Dreamgirl. And yesterday, producer Sonia Friedman revealed that North London’s Dennis, who just turned 26, will play the lead role of Effie Melody White, backbone of The Dreams (a girl group loosely based on … Read more