Interviews

From The Killing and House of Cards to Altered Carbon and Suicide Squad, Joel Kinnaman has notched up an array of prolific roles in movies and television. Most recently, the Swedish-born actor can be seen in Apple TV+’s alternate timeline drama For All Mankind, in which he plays an astronaut named Edward Baldwin.

Keeley Hawes is best known for her role in the Golden Globe-nominated thriller Bodyguard, but the versatility of the British icon is demonstrated by a long list of acting credits. On the small screen, Hawes most recently appeared in the HBO Max drama It’s A Sin – but other notable television projects include The Durrells, Mrs.

While cities like London, New York, Nashville, Detroit, and Los Angeles can easily be identified as centers of musical influence, there was no place like Minneapolis in the 1980s. The Minnesota metropolis became the capital of funk, due largely to the purple man himself.

Some may remember British actress Vanessa Kirby, 32, as Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of the TV series The Crown, or as black market arms dealer White Widow in Mission: Impossible-Fallout, with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. This year she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Drama from the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for her performance in Pieces of a Woman, by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, a role which had already earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

Hannah John-Kamen is no stranger to dystopian drama. Audiences have watched the British actor tackle lead roles in television shows including Black Mirror and Brave New World, as well as big-screen endeavors in movies such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One.

Actress-musician Sam Quartin stars in and executive produces Body Brokers, an American crime thriller, written and directed by John Swab. The story follows Utah (Jack Kilmer) and Opal (Alice Englert) two junkies living on the streets of rural Ohio until they encounter Wood (Michael Kenneth Williams) who brings them to LA for treatment.

Nico Tortorella is an actor, author, poet and activist. Since 2015, the Illinois-born entertainer has garnered attention on the small screen in the hit TV comedy Younger – but they have also notched up acclaimed roles in the Scream slasher film franchise and the Fox television thriller The Following.

Jane Krakowski is best known for her role as Jenna Maroney in the comedy series 30 Rock but viewers first came to know her in Ally McBeal, for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, in 1999. She also starred in the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Sia’s directorial debut, Music, which earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Musical or Comedy, is a project that had been germinating in her brain for over 15 years. The story centers on a free-spirited, newly sober drug dealer, Zu (Kate Hudson), estranged from her family, who becomes the sole guardian of her teenage half-sister, Music (Maddie Ziegler), who is on the autism spectrum.

In the new romantic comedy The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Kyle Allen’s character is stuck in a time loop effortlessly maneuvering through the same day which repeats endlessly. Part of his physical fluidity can be traced to his training as a classical ballet dancer at the Kirov Academy of Ballet, as well as to his six-year history of performing acrobatics.