5 d. ago Ncuti Gatwa: The Sex Education star who brought a flirty spin to the Doctor

The 32-year-old actor took on the role of the Time Lord previously filled by Matt Smith, David Tennant

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5 d. ago Gillian Anderson admits doing sex scenes are 'never a joy' but is what is 'expected' as an actor as she spills the beans on getting intimate for film roles

Gillian Anderson has admitted that taking part in sex scenes are 'never a joy' but is what is expected in her job as an actor.

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5 d. ago Is Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs' new movie The Salt Path based on a true story?

The Salt Path stars Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson as a couple who embark on a 630-mile walk after suffering a number of life-changing setbacks - but is the new movie based on a true story?

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7 d. ago Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path

Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness‘I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,” says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown), Eleanor Roosevelt (The First Lady), Emily Maitlis (the Prince Andrew/Newsnight drama Scoop) – as well as the formidable sex therapist in the Netflix hit Sex Education, a role that led to her being inundated with dildos from over-enthusiastic fans. “These are all women in control of themselves and their environment. Any time I have an opportunity to steer against that, particularly lately, it’s of interest to me.”There is steering in another direction, and then there is the screeching handbrake turn represented by her role in The Salt Path, adapted from Raynor Winn’s 2018 memoir of homelessness and hope along the coastline of England’s south-west. Playing W...

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7 d. ago The Salt Path is a tale of homelessness that’s just too neat and tidy

Based on the true story of a couple blighted by a painful diagnosis and the loss of their home, this drama ultimately becomes yet another pat story about how reconnecting with nature is good for the soul

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9 d. ago The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal

Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemptionThis film gives cinema one of the most nail-biting scenes of the year so far: an edge-of-the-seat moment as Gillian Anderson puts her bank card into a cash machine. Is there enough money in the account? Everything is at stake. This impressive, intelligent drama is an adaptation of Raynor Winn’s memoir about walking the South West Coast Path from Somerset to Dorset, with her husband, Moth. Unlike other hikers, the couple were not walking for pleasure – at least not to begin with. They had nowhere else to go after losing their farm. From theatre director Marianne Elliott, it stars two fancy actors – Anderson and Jason Isaacs – both giving lovely, emotional, low-key performances.In flashback we see the bailiffs banging at the door, evicting the couple, who are in their 50s, from the home in which they raised their kids, now flown the nest to univer...

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1 week ago Gillian Anderson was ‘profoundly affected’ by memoir that inspired The Salt Path

The film follows a couple who complete the 1,000km South West Coast Path after losing their home.

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1 week ago Inside the 10 stunning UK beaches in new Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs film The Salt Path

Set to hit cinemas on May 30, The Salt Path starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs is likely to one of the summer's biggest movies.

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1 week ago Michelle Keegan looks effortlessly chic as she joins Gillian Anderson, Jane Fonda and Simone Ashley at the L'Oreal Lights on Women Award in Cannes

The English actress, 37, was glowing as she stepped out for the event, which celebrates women in film, on the penultimate day of the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

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1 week ago Elle Fanning oozes glamour in a plunging blush gown as she joins Gillian Anderson, Simone Ashley and Michelle Keegan at Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Mastermind

The A Complete Unknown star, 27, was among the Hollywood stars who took to the red carpet for the premiere of the film, starring Josh O'Connor and Alana Haim, on Friday.

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1 week ago We lost everything and became homeless in our 50s just as my husband was diagnosed with an incurable disease

Raynor Winn is the author of The Salt Path, based on her own experience of being made homeless. Now her book has been made into a film starring Gillian Anderson.

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2 w. ago Gillian Anderson channels her Sex Education role as she admits she enjoys getting X

The actress, 56, has become a notable supporter of female sexual empowerment, after her lauded role playing a sex therapist on the hit Netflix show.

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2 w. ago X Files icon Gillian Anderson loves getting frisky in tents and the back of cars

X Files star Gillian Anderson says she loves having sex in a tent or the back of a car.

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2 w. ago Teacher banned over intimate relationship with pupil that began after post

Helen Flinders had a five month relationship with a student in 2000

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3 w. ago Watchdog finds police use of force in arrest of Sex Education actor Reece Richards 'reasonable'

Reece Richards was mistakenly arrested by cops who mistook him for another individual they were in pursuit of

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3 w. ago Met officers who wrongly arrested Sex Education star, pepper sprayed and kicked him are cleared of assault by watchdog

The actor told of being sprayed with an incapacitating liquid, thrown to the ground and kicked by officers when he was detained in Fulham, west London.

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3 w. ago Police used ‘reasonable’ force during arrest of Sex Education star, watchdog finds

Reece Richards says he was sprayed with pepper spray and thrown to the ground during the arrest

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3 w. ago Use of force during arrest of Sex Education star ‘reasonable’, watchdog finds

Reece Richards was mistaken for a suspect and arrested in Fulham in September last year.

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3 w. ago The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood lands huge new movie role opposite Hollywood icon

The White Lotus and Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood has landed a major new film role following her success as yoga teacher Chelsea.

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3 w. ago Sex Education star's horror over terrorist attack that killed 270 people

For almost 30 years, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 has been a forgotten headline. Now, the BBC are shining a light on the tragedy - leaving Connor Swindells lost for words.

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