In my mind’s eye, I see her making a slow entrance on to the Donmar Warehouse stage as Yelena in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. No wonder Simon Russell Beale’s Vanya has his tongue hanging out; Helen McCrory utterly commanded the stage in that moment. Wide-brimmed hat, long brocaded gown, she echoed a sense of Greta Garbo … Read more
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, who captured Anya Taylor-Joy’s attention on (and off) the chessboard in hit Netflix drama The Queen’s Gambit, has played the best move of all by being picked to portray Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ legendary manager, in a new film that will shoot later this year. Epstein was dubbed ‘the fifth Beatle’ by Paul McCartney; … Read more
Michael B. Jordan is reclining on a sofa. Or perhaps it’s a giant beanbag… it’s hard to tell. But whatever his seat, the Hollywood star of the Adonis Creed boxing movies — and Black Panther — is so laid back he’s almost horizontal. It’s mid-afternoon in Los Angeles, and Jordan has been excused from filming … Read more
Michael B. Jordan is reclining on a sofa. Or perhaps it’s a giant beanbag… it’s hard to tell. But whatever his seat, the Hollywood star of the Adonis Creed boxing movies — and Black Panther — is so laid back he’s almost horizontal. It’s mid-afternoon in Los Angeles, and Jordan has been excused from filming … Read more
Cher wants to be in the Mamma Mia 3 movie — sharing a duet with Meryl Streep. The stars, who’ve been friends since they made Silkwood in 1983, played mother and daughter in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again three years ago. Just to clarify: Cher (74) played Ruby Sheridan — mother of 71-year-old Streep’s … Read more
Cher wants to be in the Mamma Mia 3 movie — sharing a duet with Meryl Streep. The stars, who’ve been friends since they made Silkwood in 1983, played mother and daughter in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again three years ago. Just to clarify: Cher (74) played Ruby Sheridan — mother of 71-year-old Streep’s … Read more
Chart-topping singer Alexandra Burke, who has carved out a career as a stage star, has been picked to play the Narrator in the musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Her casting marks her London Palladium debut. But more significantly, it is the first time a black performer has taken on the role: a sort … Read more
Maria Bakalova is no joke. She’s the real deal. The 24-year-old from the Black Sea coastal city of Burgas, in Bulgaria, has emerged as a rising star, thanks to her breakout performance in the movie Borat 2. Bakalova plays Tutar, teenage daughter of Kazakhstan’s most infamous son, Borat Sagdiyev — the delicious comic creation of … Read more
Maria Bakalova is no joke. She’s the real deal. The 24-year-old from the Black Sea coastal city of Burgas, in Bulgaria, has emerged as a rising star, thanks to her breakout performance in the movie Borat 2. Bakalova plays Tutar, teenage daughter of Kazakhstan’s most infamous son, Borat Sagdiyev — the delicious comic creation of … Read more
Emma Winberg wants stars ‘who are passionate about the truth’ to portray her and her late husband James Le Mesurier in a television drama being developed about the couple and their work with Syria Civil Defence, better known as the White Helmets. ‘There are so many wonderful actors out there,’ Winberg told me from her … Read more