2 w. ago Amber Heard lands first acting role since Johnny Depp trial in Jeremy O Harris play

The actor will join the ensemble cast of ‘Spirit of the People’ at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

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3 w. ago I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman

Effective opposition calls for a laser focus on change, no matter how small. We should consider these activists’ examplesAround the end of 2022, I had an idea for a book about the history of resistance to Nazism. I wanted to show that Nazism has faced nonconformity, refusal and protest ever since it was born in 1920. I also wanted to explore beyond a handful of famous heroes and cast a spotlight on people who changed history without entering popular memory. When I began my research, Donald Trump had just announced his candidacy for the Republican ticket in 2024. When I gave the manuscript to the publisher a little over two years later, he was president-elect.His comeback, the darker version of Maga that came with him, and the Democratic party’s collapse gave fresh relevance to the stories of resistance to far-right extremism that I was finding. Even as I was piecing them together, they began to intrude on the present. It was a haunting transformation – and it helped me to understand...

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3 w. ago Gina Gershon: ‘Tom Cruise was tickling me in bed. I nearly broke his nose’

The star of Showgirls, Bound and High Rollers answers your questions on missing out on The Matrix, being a gay hero and swapping faces with her catGina, you are a spectacular and artistically brave woman and movie star. How do you rationalise – and, hopefully, enjoy – the fact that your audiences often encounter you as a beacon of beauty, sexuality and eroticism? Geroellheimer People can see me in whatever ways they want. As long as what I do brings them joy or helps them think about things, I don’t contemplate how they view me – it’s too abstract. When people share their opinions about me with me, I wonder who they’re talking about, but I go along with it to be polite.How do you move on and decompress after playing such intense roles? mansurz After Showgirls and Bound, I had so much residual energy that I ended up going to Greece, cut off some of my hair and released it into the sea. I thought: “This is very Greek.” There was a lot of energy that came with playing Donatella Ve...

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3 w. ago SNP Government promises not to cut Adult Disability Payment after UK benefit changes

Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said the Scottish Government "will not let disabled people down or cast them aside".

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3 w. ago The play that changed my life: ‘Daniel Kaluuya winked at me and my mum – and said he acted better for us’

A ringside seat at Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch inspired a teenager to switch career plans from law to theatreMy mother has always been my champion and has pumped culture into me for a very long time. Theatre and the arts were part of our bonding. She used to say, if you see a show that you like the look of, I’ll get tickets. So I’d go on the Royal Court website and if there were many black people in the cast, I’d want to go because I could see myself.I would have been around 16 when I saw Sucker Punch by Roy Williams. It’s about two young men who know that their bodies can be a kind of tool to better themselves so they fall into boxing. An aspiring white promoter zeroes in on their talent. It is about rivalry, but also about how community works together, and is a really good investigation of masculinity and the ownership of black bodies. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Gina Gershon explains why she no longer does Melania Trump impressions

Actor performed uncanny satires of the wife of US president Donald Trump

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3 w. ago Gina Gershon: ‘People like to cast me as hardcore, motorcycle

The star of cult classics including ‘Bound’ and ‘Face/Off’ is once again stealing scenes, this time in an action thriller called ‘High Rollers’. She speaks to Adam White about the trauma of being in ‘Showgirls’, how it takes 20 years for her films to be embraced, and why she stopped doing her viral impressions of Melania Trump

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3 w. ago Gina Gershon: ‘People like to cast me as a hardcore, motorcycle

The star of cult classics including ‘Bound’ and ‘Face/Off’ is once again stealing scenes, this time in an action thriller called ‘High Rollers’. She speaks to Adam White about the trauma of being in ‘Showgirls’, how it takes 20 years for her films to be embraced, and why she stopped doing her viral impressions of Melania Trump

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