Music

We met Golden Globe winner Gillian Anderson for a conversation about the latest revival season of The X-Files, the show that gave her a Golden Globe and her first big break in show business. Anderson lives in London, where she also appeared in many plays in the West End.

Twice Golden Globe nominee Alicia Vikander will surprise her fans in her upcoming movie, Tomb Raider. Vikander trained like an Olympian athlete to become the iconic action heroine, but music is always an inspiration for her roles.

Hugh Grant - multiple nominee and a Golden Globe winner is quick to say that he doesn’t love music like most people do, and he is funny about it: “Music makes me sad, so I can only really tolerate ABBA. ”But does music ever help him with his acting?, we asked Hugh, now at your local multiplex with Paddington II.

When we asked our Cecil B. deMille recipient and eight-time Golden Globe winner Meryl Streep if she ever relies on music to get into character, she had a very original way to describe the music that helped her in The Post.

Timothée Chalamet, this year s acting sensation with a fresh Golden Globe nomination for best actor for his starring role in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name is extremely enthusiastic about how music helps him with his craft:“Music plays a really, really, really big role in all of the acting I do.   For the fireplace scene in this film (Call Me By Your Name) I had a little earpiece, that's playing the song (Sufjan Stevens’ “Visions of Gideon”) the entire time so it kind of it gave sort of the mechanism or barometer by which to know okay, how is this song going, where are the arcs of the song here.

Multi-talented four-time Golden Globe winner Tom Hanks - who plays the legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in Steven Spielberg’s The Post - cannot live without music while on the set. “I cannot be in a trailer by myself on a movie…they say we don’t need you for an hour and 45 minutes, I’ve got to have music playing.

Raised in West Virginia, Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner loves bluegrass- more often than not, that’s what’s she’s listening on her headphones when she is on set. Things were different on the set of her latest movie, The Tribes of Palos Verdes, where she takes a very dramatic turn playing the wife and mother of two old teenagers on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Star Wars’  John Boyega is one of fastest rising names in the industry, with a strong part director Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, and the upcoming Pacific Rim: Uprising. Born in London in a Nigerian family, Boyega loves all kinds of music and is quick to point out his favorite compose: “Hans Zimmer is my favorite composer, and so I listen to him to and from the set.

Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain is back with another powerful performance in Molly’s Game written by another Golden Globe winner, Aaron Sorkin, who decided to debut also as a director. California-born Jessica loves to play the ukulele so we asked if music helps her also in getting into the character she plays.

A Golden Globe nominee for Black Swan, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky gives a lot of importance to the music score in his films. But for his latest, the controversial mother! , he made a surprising choice.