Celia Imrie is that rarest of creatures in modern Britain – someone who hasn’t read The Thursday Murder Club. “I didn’t want to spook things, is the truth,” says the actress, who’d “got wind” a while back that she might be in the frame for the film adaptation of Richard Osman’s mega-selling comic crime novel. “SoContinue reading “Celia Imrie: “I’ve spent a long time trying to jump out of any box anybody tries to put me in””
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Mark Gatiss: “My career is partly a long revenge against P.E…”
Mark Gatiss is a busy man. No surprises there, of course: over the past two decades, the writer, actor, director and all-round pop-cultural polymath has racked up a CV longer than his beloved Doctor Who’s stripy scarf. When he’s not reinventing literary icons like Sherlock Holmes and Dracula, reuniting with his old pals from TheContinue reading “Mark Gatiss: “My career is partly a long revenge against P.E…””
Sir Ian McKellen: “I think about death every day of my of life.”
Ian McKellen gave his first performance as Hamlet on Christmas Day, 1948. He was nine years old – so still some way off becoming a knight of the realm and a national treasure – and the venue was a toy Victorian theatre he’d received that morning. “You cut out all the parts and glued themContinue reading “Sir Ian McKellen: “I think about death every day of my of life.””
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