Interviews

Broadway musicals have often drawn inspiration from historical characters, from literature and from movies. Evita, The Color Purple, Sunset Boulevard, Hairspray, Mean Girls, Once and Tootsie all have been given the musical treatment.

Henry Golding, a TV travel journalist, was picked by director John Chu to play the leading role of the wealthy groom from Singapore in the ensemble comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018) with Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh and Awkwafina. Golding then chose the drama Monsoon (2020) as his second feature, to play Kit, a man raised in England returning to Vietnam, the country where he was born and that his parents fled when he was 6-years-old.

British-born actor and model Noah Huntley (The Royals, Dracula Untold, 28 Days Later) stars in the CW sci-fi drama series Pandora. The series which is set in the year 2199 was shot under COVID restrictions in Bulgaria.

Moshe Zonder, the head writer of the Israeli award-winning hit series Fauda, an espionage series centered on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, turns his gaze to Israel’s archenemy, Iran, in Apple TV’s eight-part series, Tehran. This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows a young Mossad operative, Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), an Iranian-born, Israeli-raised spy who goes undercover in Iran to disable a nuclear reactor that makes fuel for atomic weapons.

Jacob Elordi has big ambitions. He does not want to be just another heartthrob in rom-coms, he prefers digging his teeth into deep and complex characters that are not necessarily nice guys.

Nicole Kidman hired the Danish filmmaker and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier to direct HBO’s six-part limited series The Undoing.   “I read the first version of the first episode that David E.

Awkwafina invented her nickname when she was 16 by combining the name of the water Aquafina with the adjective awkward. Her real name is Nora Lum and she was born in Queens, New York, to a Korean mother and a Chinese American father.

The Scotsman was always good for a zinger or two. The man who famously said “I like women.

Carrie Coon has been surprising us with her acting chops for a long time – ever since she suddenly appeared in Gone Girl as the sister of Ben Affleck in 2014, and at the same time became a key part of the success of The Leftovers, in which she played a woman who had lost her whole family in a strange global event. She had been preparing for a long time in the theater for that big debut on the screen: she received a nomination for a Tony for her work on Broadway in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? where she also met her husband, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts.

Rupert Everett enjoyed quite the wild full circle moment last year, more than two decades after the famously handsome Brit had taken Hollywood, and much of the cinema-going world, by storm. It was 1997 when the British actor - out since the 1980s - almost stole My Best Friend’s Wedding from his equally attractive co-stars Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz and Dermot Mulroney.