4 h. ago Alicia Vikander: "I'm rehearsing my play with an AI Andrew Lincoln!"

The Oscar-winning actor is making her theatre debut in a new version of Ibsen at the Bridge. It’s still a work in progress — and she’s freaking out

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5 h. ago Alicia Vikander: on motherhood, her new London play and life with Michael Fassbender in Lisbon

The Oscar-winning actor is making her theatre debut in a new version of Ibsen at the Bridge. It’s still a work in progress — and she’s freaking out

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10 h. ago Alicia Vikander hints at London move as she reflects on family life with Michael Fassbender

After eight years in Portugal, the couple are now considering a fresh chapter in the capital while juggling work and family life

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52 h. ago Alicia Vikander rehearsed with 'AI Andrew Lincoln' before West End debut

The Ex Machina star admitted she used an AI version of her co-star to prepare for her role in The Lady from the Sea

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67 h. ago Sydney Sweeney reveals why she ‘absolutely loved’ her physical transformation for Christy film

The Christy Martin biopic premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend

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3 d. ago ‘It will be frightening but you have to do it’: Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander’s nerve

Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen’s The Lady from the SeaEntering the almost silent rehearsal room, I fear I’ve blundered into a private moment. The Lady from the Sea cast are seated in a tight circle and at least two of them have tears in their eyes. The quiet murmur of conversation suggests something heavy has just gone down. So I’m relieved when I realise they’re reading a scene – and stunned to discover the scene was written only yesterday.Simon Stone’s modern take on Ibsen’s play is still under construction, and he has had his actors together for less than a fortnight. “Most people really take six weeks to connect to scenes,” the Australian writer-director says during the lunch break. “Often an entire rehearsal process can be the slow marking out of stuff, and it takes until your first run-through to feel anything at all. We are connect...

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6 d. ago 'Comfy' pillows hailed as 'perfect for side sleepers' are now just £5 in flash sale

The Slumberdown Feels Like Down Pillows have been branded "extremely comfortable" and "full and fluffy every night" by shoppers, and are perfect for side, back, and stomach sleepers

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6 d. ago Tom Holland is unrecognizable with aging prosthetics as he transforms into multiple characters in LEGO short film

Tom Holland looked unrecognizable as he transformed into multiple different characters in a new short film for LEGO . 

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7 d. ago How Armani invented modern red carpet style: Designer's tailoring for women and showstopping gowns totally transformed how A

It might be difficult to imagine, but before the Italian designer's time, stars wouldn't dress in a fashion house's finery on the red carpet, but would style themselves just as normal people do.

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8 d. ago A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonationKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet’s deadly serious Fail Safe. Bigelow, with screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, broaches one of the most frightening thoughts of all: that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it. I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.Th...

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1 week ago Anhell69 review – an impassioned eulogy for Colombia’s queer renegades

Theo Montoya collages an unfinished phantom horror film, gothic Medellín cityscapes and interviews with lost friends into a transgressive work of cine-protestThe best kind of goth is the Latino goth. That much is clear throughout this documentary lament for the Colombian city of Medellín, for which director Theo Montoya narrates his elegy from within a casket. Luckily, he is still alive – unlike eight of the doomy-looking LGBTQ+ renegades who speak about their lives on camera here, having killed themselves or died of drug overdoses since filming. It is implied they are victims by proxy of a kind of ambient socio-cultural violence that is a hangover from the cartel days.Partly constructed out of audition interviews with actor hopefuls, Anhell69 is the remnant of Montoya’s unfinished movie, of which we see extracts: it takes place in a dystopian Medellín in which the preponderance of the dead and a lack of cemetery space has led to red-eyed phantoms walking the streets. These revenant...

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3 w. ago Alicia Vikander on Making Her London Stage Debut, Battling Mom Guilt, and Life With Michael Fassbender

Alicia Vikander on Making Her London Stage Debut, Battling Mom Guilt, and Life With Michael Fassbender  Vogue

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3 w. ago Alicia Vikander calls The Danish Girl ‘extremely dated’ for portrayal of trans people

Movie was considered controversial at the time due to its portrayal of trans people and for Redmayne’s casting as lead

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3 w. ago Alicia Vikander opens up about ‘mum guilt’ after working long days away from children

The actor and her husband, Michael Fassbender, share two sons, aged four and one

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3 w. ago Alicia Vikander says trans film The Danish Girl ‘feels extremely dated already’

In the film, Eddie Redmayne plays Lili Elbe, a character based on a transgender woman, who lived in the 19th and early 20th century.

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4 w. ago Cillian Murphy debuts striking new look as he transforms into struggling headteacher in first trailer for Netflix film that 'broke his heart'

The Peaky Blinders and Oppenheimer star is taking on one of his most compelling roles to date as the principal teacher of a last-chance reform school.

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