Person of Interest
Matthew Macfadyen Ponders the End and Looks to Life After ‘Succession’
It’s well known by now that Matthew Macfadyen is nothing like Tom Wambsgans. In Succession’s early years, comparisons focused on the juxtaposition between the refined British actor — a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and notorious for his role as one Mr. Darcy — and the bumbling Midwesterner he portrays. But now, […]
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Sofia Carson on Preparing to Perform With Diane Warren at the Oscars: “I Still Pinch Myself”
Sofia Carson’s journey to the Oscar stage is an unusual one: The 29-year-old singer, songwriter and actress had her start guest starring on Disney Channel shows before breaking into film as the daughter of the Evil Queen (of Snow White infamy) in the network’s original movie Descendants. From there, she acted and created original music […]
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Nat Wolff on Finding (and Re-finding) Fame, and How His New Leading Role Changed His Outlook on Hollywood
Nat Wolff has been really famous a couple of times. The first was in 2007, when his show The Naked Brothers Band (based on his real-life musical group) became Nickelodeon’s most popular kids’ series — that was the kind of fame that got him bullied at his New York City middle school. Then, in 2015, […]
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How ‘Emancipation’ Star Charmaine Bingwa Fought for Her Character
Charmaine Bingwa had just finished a monologue on the set of Emancipation when she had a request for director Antoine Fuqua. Could she do the speech she had just done in English, but this time in Haitian Creole? He said yes. “If my characters speak in another language, but I don’t know it, I feel […]
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‘Babylon’ Star Diego Calva’s “Bizarre Kind of Summer Camp” Experience on Damien Chazelle’s Film
Diego Calva knows that his experience on Babylon was not traditional. First of all, to get the role of Manny Torres, a wide-eyed striver who moves up the ranks of the film industry in its nascent days, the Mexican actor did “30 or 40” self-tapes. Then he moved into the Los Angeles home of director […]
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Lucy Boynton on Her Dark, Juicy New Roles: “Will Anything Ever Live Up to This Again?”
In a booth at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, COVID is on the table. As an interviewer, the topic can feel simultaneously intrusive and reductive to bring up, whether it’s the current state of the pandemic or those dark months of 2020, but it’s a subject that can’t be avoided, especially as actors are […]
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‘Tár’ Breakout Noemie Merlant on What She Learned From Working With “Fantastic” Cate Blanchett
French actress Noémie Merlant might have gotten her big break in 2019’s French historical drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire — which recently landed on Sight and Sound’s list of the 100 greatest films of all time — but she’s made waves for her performance in this year’s Tár, in which she plays the […]
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‘The Bear’ Star Ayo Edebiri Says She Has a New Appreciation for the Invisible Work in a Restaurant
It turns out that when you play a chef on TV, the people in your real life are quick to come at you with cooking requests. “My mom is a really, really incredible cook,” says Ayo Edebiri, who plays eager young sous chef Sydney on The Bear. “Previous holidays or whatever, I’ve always been like, ‘Let […]
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Jessica Henwick on Her Career Milestone No One Knows About
In Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson’s sequel that follows self-titled “disrupters” as they convene on the private island of their tech billionaire leader, internet drama is the name of the game (well, in addition to murder). Jessica Henwick’s character, Peg, is the long-suffering assistant to Kate Hudson’s Birdie Jay, a fashion-industry stalwart […]
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‘Nanny’ Star Anna Diop Never Expected to Find Such a Meaningful Character to Play
Anna Diop didn’t know when she would be able to represent her own culture onscreen. Then she was cast in Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny. “I’ve never had the chance to play Senegalese, so I’m like, ‘This is bananas,’ ” she recalls. “I didn’t know when in my career that would happen, where I could really show our […]
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‘Devotion’ Star Christina Jackson on Playing “the Heart” of the War Drama
From Christina Jackson’s perspective, acting chose her — not the other way around. “I was always very animated, and my parents thought I [might become] a lawyer,” recalls Jackson, 35, of her formative years in Plainfield, New Jersey. The vocation she would make her career as an adult first presented itself when Jackson was in […]
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‘Empire of Light’ Star Micheal Ward on His Dramatic Ascent and Prophetic Vision for His Career
In a story likely to be repeated numerous times as his star continues its upward trajectory, when he first met his agent, a 19-year-old Micheal Ward was asked what sort of project he’d love to be a part of if it was possible. “Something like Top Boy,” he said, referring to Ronan Bennett’s cult crime series — about […]
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