Emma Corrin has come a long way since she made her debut, aged ten, playing Toad in a school production of The Wind In The Willows. Fourteen years later, the Cambridge graduate is on the brink of her own star-is-born moment. Because I can attest that the 24-year-old’s portrait of Princess Diana, in the fourth … Read more
Showman Michael Harrison told me exclusively that, because we’re all ‘going to need a laugh at the end of the year’, he’s signed up a cavalcade of stars led by Julian Clary (pictured above as The Man in the Mirror in Snow White at the London Palladium) Panto will be back at the London Palladium … Read more
Star Wars actor John Boyega is back with The Force. The police force. And Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is delighted to have caught him at just the right moment. ‘He was ready to get back into acting, and not just reacting,’ he said, referring to the South-East London-born actor’s time spent in a galaxy far, … Read more
Keira Knightley and the ensemble from Silent Night — the most astonishing Christmas movie ever made — are preparing to complete post-production on the film, work that was interrupted by the pandemic. An unfinished version was shown privately to distributors at a series of Covid-secure screenings in Soho, London, this week, one of which I … Read more
Keira Knightley and the ensemble from Silent Night — the most astonishing Christmas movie ever made — are preparing to complete post-production on the film, work that was interrupted by the pandemic. An unfinished version was shown privately to distributors at a series of Covid-secure screenings in Soho, London, this week, one of which I … Read more
Vanessa Kirby pulls out all the stops when she prepares for a role. To portray Princess Margaret in The Crown, the actress papered her home with photographs of the Queen’s sister to ‘imbue’ herself with her style and spirit. And for the smouldering, scheming White Widow in the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible — Fallout, … Read more
Vanessa Kirby pulls out all the stops when she prepares for a role. To portray Princess Margaret in The Crown, the actress papered her home with photographs of the Queen’s sister to ‘imbue’ herself with her style and spirit. And for the smouldering, scheming White Widow in the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible — Fallout, … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Sofa so good for the footie… Toheeb Jimoh spends entire quarantine ‘doing absolutely nothing’ but eating his mother’s Nigerian cuisine and playing FIFA By Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail Published: 02:19 BST, 31 July 2020 | Updated: 02:19 BST, 31 July 2020 Actor Toheeb Jimoh has spent the entire quarantine ‘doing absolutely … Read more
Let it go? Never! Frozen, the £10 million musical based on the Oscar-winning film, may have had to shift its West End opening from this autumn to next spring. But the show will still reopen the magnificently made-over Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with previews starting on April 2 and a grand official opening scheduled for … Read more
The Mousetrap — the show that roared — will be the first play to reopen in the West End. Which seems only fitting, given that Agatha Christie’s murder mystery, now in its 68th year, is the world’s longest running theatrical production. ‘We will open on October 23,’ producer Adam Spiegel told me in an exclusive interview, … Read more