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The entente cordiale between the UK and France will surely be improved if Maggie Smith and Nathalie Baye, one of the greatest living French actresses, have anything to do with it. The two screen legends will meet on the set of the Downton Abbey film sequel that’s due to begin shooting in late March or … Read more
Mads Mikkelsen quite fancied the idea of following Maud Adams’s lead by playing two different roles in James Bond films. Adams famously played Andrea Anders in The Man With The Golden Gun, and then 11 years later, in 1983, there she was again, this time as title character Octopussy. Up on my Zoom screen, the … Read more
Billie Piper, who has bemoaned the fact that she never gets asked to do big studio films, will star alongside Fleabag’s hot priest Andrew Scott and Bella Ramsey (Lyanna Mormont in Game Of Thrones) in a new movie written and directed by Lena Dunham, the innovative creator behind television shows such as Girls and Industry. … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Corrin lands a risque role to Di for… opposite hunky Harry Styles By Baz Bambigboye For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 4 February 2021 Emma Corrin, who plays Lady Diana Spencer in The Crown, has bagged a leading role in upcoming film My Policeman … Read more
The unlikeliest hit film, Fisherman’s Friends, has set a course for the West End, and is getting ready to sail into the sometimes choppy seas of musical theatre. It is based on the true story of the shanty singing fishermen, from the Cornish village of Port Isaac, who found fame after being snapped up by … Read more
Adarsh Gourav is electrifying in the screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s bestseller The White Tiger — and he certainly suffered for his art. Gourav plays Balram, an underdog, born to serve India’s idle rich, who clambers up a greasy, murderous pole. But when he went undercover in a village, to see what Balram’s early years … Read more
Denzel Washington said he’s not worried about getting older. Nor is he envious of the leading men lining up behind him (his son John David Washington is in the queue). And he doesn’t care if he no longer cuts the svelte figure he did when Geena Davis handed him his first Oscar statuette three decades … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Thompson has signed up to play Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a schoolgirl with magical powers, in a new film version of Matilda.
The former model, 29, who studied drama at Yale and is known professionally by her middle name, plays heroine Marion Brook For those on the hunt for a good old costume drama to get your teeth into, there is good news on the horizon. Filming resumes imminently on The Gilded Age, the lavish new nine-part … Read more
Gary Oldman’s mother never doubted that her son would win an Academy Award. ‘She’d say: “Oh, I think you could win an Oscar,” ’ Oldman recalls. ‘Or: “I’d love to see you win an Oscar!” ’ Her son did not share her confidence. ‘Really, for a long time in Hollywood I didn’t exactly play the … Read more