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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Jeff Goldblum: ‘I’m in my platinum years, but I feel younger than springtime’
We’re seconds into our interview, and I’m already getting the full Jeff Goldblum charm offensive. “I haven’t seen you for six years, but you look six years younger!” he beams, as if we’re old friends. “I want to know all your secrets,” he adds, conspiratorially. “Is that a guitar behind you? I’d love to hearContinue reading “Jeff Goldblum: ‘I’m in my platinum years, but I feel younger than springtime’”
Kate Hudson: “I was a real ‘pull up your bootstraps’ kind of girl. Sometimes, maybe I just needed a hug.”
For most actors, press junkets fall somewhere between a grudging contractual obligation and an outright irritation. Kate Hudson is not one of those actors. “It just feels so good to be back talking to people,” beams the 43-year-old, apparently sincerely, when Weekend meets her at a London hotel. “I’ve been doing this for two decades,”Continue reading “Kate Hudson: “I was a real ‘pull up your bootstraps’ kind of girl. Sometimes, maybe I just needed a hug.””
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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