The Best Actors

The Stranger Things alum—who’s headed to Middle-earth for season three of The Rings of Power—tells us about his rockstar style icons, the Vecna hand in his suitcase, and why he copied Dev Hynes’s skinny jeans as a teen.

Adam Driver opened up about why he said yes to playing Mister Sinister in the “X-Men” reboot after turning down many Marvel movies over the years. “I was a big fan [of ‘X-Men]. I mean, I was a fan of the other things too, but this one felt like the right time,” Driver said during […]

On Tuesday night, Keisha Lance Bottoms won the 2026 Georgia gubernatorial election, making history as the first Black woman to be elected governor of any U.S. state and Georgia’s first Black governor. One of the first moves made by Bottoms, who’d previously served as the mayor of Atlanta, a member of Atlanta City Council and […]

Sarah Finn is no stranger to the world of casting. Many will know her as the casting director for Marvel — she’s assembled every film in the MCU since 2008’s “Iron Man.” Her credits also include “Everything, Everywhere All at Once,” 2019’s “The Lion King” and “Chef.” Searchlight’s “Wild Horse Nine,” now in theaters, reunites […]

Robert Aramayo is kicking back, eating a doughnut. A red box of SK’s Donuts sits open on the table between us, lid flipped back, “Best Donuts in Los Angeles, Est. 1989” stamped across the top. I joke with Aramayo before the mics are hot: This is why I booked the interview. I wanted some free […]

Jesse Eisenberg has a confession about the biggest moment in “The Debut.” When the crowd at the Telluride world premiere broke into mid-film applause after a showdown between Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, also known as “the rent is due” scene, his first thought wasn’t relief. “Oh no! Can they go on the ride?” he […]

Although Lena Dunham is bringing back Girls for a limited run, don’t expect all the boys to return. Adam Driver, who played Dunham’s romantic lead Adam Sackler in the 2012-’17 HBO series, recently shut down a return to the character, following HBO’s announcement of a five-episode revival. “No, but I wish them the best of […]

Chang Chen, chair of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee and last year’s Golden Horse best leading actor winner for “Lucky Lu,” advised six of Taiwan’s rising performers on working across different film sets at a Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) showcase in Taipei. The “TCCF x The Golden Horse Awards: Taiwan Emerging […]

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard “It’s good to be back,” Johnny Depp declares in the trailer for Ebenezer, in which he stars as Charles Dickens’s miserly Scrooge – his first big Hollywood studio production in eight years. The message is clear: this is Depp’s comeback, after years in which his career was overshadowed by legal battles with his former wife Amber Heard. Continue reading...

We know Adam Driver has no plans to return to Lena Dunham’s Girls reboot, but what about the Star Wars franchise? Any chance fans will see Kylo Ren again? Nah. “Yeah, yeah, it’s over,” Driver said this week on The Rich Eisen Show podcast with regard to the possibility that he’d return to play Kylo […]

Sylvester Stallone is reminiscing about his now-infamous rivalry with fellow action star Arnold Schwarzenegger through the 1980s and 1990s — and why they only laid down the hatchet when the latter ran for governor of California. In a recent interview on “The Rest Is Entertainment” podcast, the “Rocky” actor answered whether he felt the competition […]

Thiti “Tongte” Srinuan, director of Thai blockbuster “The Undertaker,” put up a photo of himself defecating on camera for real during a session at Taiwan Creative Content Fest in Taipei. The scene dates from his days as a supporting actor with Taibaan Studio. “I was a supporting actor, and I played a crazy person,” Srinuan […]

The ‘Sense and Sensibility’ actor turned author has written a new memoir about grief following a succession of losses that include that of his sister Clare and the IVF struggles with his wife Emma Thompson. He sits down with Helen Coffey about the lessons he’s learnt along the way, and why men and women tend to grieve very differently

The Bafta-winning actor on her toughest roles, teenage crushes, and the joy of finding her people at drama school Born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, in 1969, Monica Dolan is a TV, film and stage actor. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and won a Bafta for her portrayal of Rosemary West in ITV’s Appropriate Adult in 2011. She won the Laurence Olivier award for best supporting actress for her role in the West End production of All About Eve in 2019. Her other television credits include Mr Bates vs the Post Office, W1A, Sherwood, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, and Smoggie Queens. She stars in Onwards and Sideways, in UK cinemas from 6 November, ahead of its release on BBC iPlayer later this year. That’s me staging a puppet show with a Waldorf Muppet, my head poking through the very 1970s-looking hatch in our house in Woking, Surrey. There’s a somewhat neglected Sindy on the side. I think she was an ice-skating one – I wasn’t massively keen on dolls, but I liked that you could move her legs around quite acrobatically, and if you bent her knee too far the plastic would snap and a wire would poke through. Continue reading...

Andy Serkis, who played an instrumental role in bringing the on-screen version of Gollum (also known as Sméagol) to life in “The Lord of the Rings” franchise, is reflecting on the technology that helped him do so. Gollum, a central character in the films, is the result of both Serkis’ performance and computer-generated elements through […]

Prime Video canceled “Spider-Noir” after just one season, and while fans were shocked, it was good news for star Nicolas Cage, who has no desire to keep telling Ben Reilly’s story. Speaking with IGN in a recent interview, the “National Treasure” actor responded with a simple “no” when asked if he felt there was more […]

Andy Serkis opened up recently about returning to the character that made him famous. Serkis not only plays Gollum again in the upcoming The Hunt for Gollum, he’s directing the film. In a new interview with the Times, he held forth on the challenge of reviving his fan-favorite Lord of the Rings character, and the […]

At 89, the star of the Graduate and Ran Man demonstrates both brilliance and a startling lack of self-awareness The choice of title for an actor’s autobiography can be revealing. Sylvester Stallone went with The Steps, conflating life’s challenging progress with the grand staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art that Rocky euphorically ran up. Michael Douglas cheerfully and unreflectively called his One Helluva Ride. Dustin Hoffman’s is one of those that harks back to the poignantly vulnerable youthful world in which the acting bug first took effect. Al Pacino called his Sonny Boy; Anthony Hopkins gave us We Did OK, Kid. Hoffman’s Look at Me is about the yearning to be seen and heard. Or is it about a childish impulse to show off? Continue reading...