As part of a Bafta TV special, the nominated actor on a whirlwind few years, why intimacy coordinators matter, and watching her not-so-guilty pleasure Real Housewives When Marisa Abela landed the role of Yasmin, Industry’s traumatised heiress, she was still at drama school. Now, she’s a breakout star of the […]
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Sycophancy stops Trump from dozing off as PM and co hail victory – or at least getting what they could get Three days ago, Donald Trump promised an announcement that would be very possibly the greatest announcement in the whole history of announcements. Come Thursday morning, he said the US […]
As psycho-thriller The Surfer is released, the actor answers your questions about eating rats, loving pickled eggs and scaring Terry Wogan What do you remember of that appearance on Wogan? What was Terry like in real life? Have you still got that leather jacket, and the snakeskin jacket from Wild […]
Prince Harry and King Charles will need to put past grievances to one side if they are to move on from their estrangement, experts say For most families, fallouts and squabbles are a regular occurrence. But what happens when those rifts deepen to an estrangement, such as appears to have […]
Lyttelton, LondonThis energetic look at the charmed lives of the 1% features some signature sparks, but the class satire is not potent enough in the composer’s swansong Stephen Sondheim’s final musical is a passion project in more ways than one. An adaptation of two films by Luis Buñuel, it reflects […]
Ahead of her 50th birthday this month, we rate the best tracks of the multi-hyphenate talent who, with Fugees and as a solo artist, blended soul, hip-hop and reggae with raw emotion and charisma The closest their debut album Blunted on Reality came to a crossover hit, Nappy Heads is […]
Collaboration with Thom Yorke is worth hype in tragedy played with clarity and verve In all the hype around the collaborators on this co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International, it is easy to forget what is at its centre. It is not the co-directors, Steven Hoggett and […]
Starmer instead talked about his India deal, while Badenoch insisted on catching up with last week’s news You’d have thought it might have been a moment for contrition. Or failing that, a veneer of humility. At the very least a nano-second’s pause for self-reflection. An admission from Keir Starmer and […]
The Fleabag creator’s new TV series sees her reinvent herself as an ocean documentarian. But she’s far from the first celebrity to strike out in a radical new direction For some years now, putting “Phoebe Waller-Bridge” and “Amazon” together in a sentence would only provoke feelings of sadness and disappointment. […]
Ryan Coogler’s smash hit horror focuses on the opening of a juke joint, a one-time mainstay in Black southern culture In Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, the Smokestack twins – a gangster pair played by Michael B Jordan – return to their Mississippi Delta home town to open a juke joint and […]