Interviews

Austrian actress Valerie Pachner was surprised when she got the role in Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life. “I still have this feeling of what a wonderful coincidence that Terrence Malick decided to do a film about an Austrian story with German-speaking actors,” Pachner told HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser.

Anya Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an English-Argentine actress born in Miami in 1996. The youngest of six children, she is the daughter of an African-Spanish-English mother and a Scottish-Argentinian father.

Zoya Akhtar has made a name for herself in mainstream Bollywood, She is the only female director to have a string of very successful movies, and now the stars that turned her down in her early career would gladly work for her. Her latest film Gully Boy is India’s entry in the Oscar race as well as being submitted to be considered for the Golden Globe Awards.

With Light of My Life, Casey Affleck has written and directed a film about a father struggling to protect his daughter a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world’s population. Rag – played by newcomer Anna Pniowsky - as one survivor.

When you meet Wyatt Russell’s character Sean 'Dud' Dudley for the first time on the TV series Lodge 49 he is at his lowest point, walking on the beach with a metal detector after the death of his father and the collapse of the family business. 'At the beginning Dud is idealizing his father and trying to become an idealistic version of his father.

Danish actor Kim Bodnia unexpectedly returned to season two of Killing Eve after having been presumed dead in season one. This was partly because of his character Konstantin’s amazing chemistry with assassin Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer.

Two episodes of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young premiered on the big screen of the Grand Theatre Lumière in Cannes this year. The neo-noir thriller features Miles Teller as an LA cop and John Hawkes as a war veteran who take justice into their own hands and eliminate all they see that is bad.

Ever since his directorial debut with Get Out Jordan Peele has been carving out a unique artistic terrain altering and subverting familiar formulas. With his new film Us, he has made a horror film with a black family as the leads.

Danish actor Jakob Cedergren has a prolific career in Scandinavia, but he has finally caught the world’s attention with his outstanding performance in Gustav Möller’s The Guilty. He plays Asger Holm, a policeman working the emergency dispatch phones at the police station.

Hera Hilmar, 29 (her birth name is Hilmarsdóttir) is an Icelandic actress on the rise. She will soon be seen leading the Peter Jackson-produced Mortal Engines as well as in Matthew Weiner’sThe Romanoffs on Amazon.