50 h. ago ‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpieceOn 19 December 1974, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz went round to her friend Peter Hujar’s apartment in New York, and asked the photographer to describe exactly what he had done the day before. He talked in great detail about taking Allen Ginsberg’s portrait for the New York Times (it didn’t go well – Ginsberg was too performative for the kind of intimacy Hujar craved). He also described the Chinese takeaway he ate and how his pal Vince Aletti came round to have a shower. And he fretted about not being paid by Elle magazine.So what did Ben Whishaw, who plays him in the new film Peter Hujar’s Day, do himself the day before? The actor, on a video call from his home in London, rubbing his hands through his hair in a worried manner, says he could probably describe it in “about five sentences”, but aft...

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7 d. ago Amanda Seyfried addresses backlash over her Charlie Kirk comments: ‘Based on actual reality’

Actor called the right-wing activist ‘hateful’ after his death

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7 d. ago Amanda Seyfried won’t apologise for her Charlie Kirk remark: ‘Based on actual reality’

Actor faces backlash after calling right-wing activist ‘hateful’ after his death

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2 w. ago Halle Berry slams Gavin Newsom for ‘overlooking women’ amid rumored presidential run

Actor called Newsom out for his veto in a column last month

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2 w. ago Actor Sam Hoare backs The Independent’s SafeCall campaign with rallying call for help

Actor Sam Hoare has backed The Independent’s SafeCall campaign with rallying call for help.

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3 w. ago Ryan Reynolds forced to take action after Wrexham player's urgent 2am call

The Hollywood actor has opened up on the moment one Wrexham player called him 'so upset' in the middle of the night

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3 w. ago Huge EastEnders star ‘with one of TV’s most recognisable faces’ signs up for Strictly Christmas special

EASTENDERS Doctor Anthony Trueman star Nicholas Bailey is on call for the Strictly Christmas Special. The actor, 54, is the first male dancer confirmed for the festive line-up alongside names including All Saints’ Melanie Blatt and Scarlett Moffat. Nicholas has been in and out of Albert Square for years, first joining in September 2000 before...

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3 w. ago Brand new detective drama starring Eve Myles hailed 'gripping and brilliant'

ITV has announced a new six-part psychological police drama called Gone, starring Welsh actor Eve Myles and David Morrissey, known for Sherwood and Daddy Issues.

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3 w. ago Horror movie star and Call of Duty voice actor Udo Kier dies at 81

Comedian and actor Dane Cook took to X to pay tribute to "one of the funniest people [he's] ever met."

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3 w. ago Monkey soulmates and extraordinary talent: the man Charlie Chaplin called ‘the greatest actor in the world’

Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaosJean Vigo’s L’Atalante, his poetic and surreal 1934 romance about a young couple living on a canal barge, is one of the most beautiful, sensual films of all time. Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté play the newlyweds getting awkwardly accustomed to married life in close quarters, and their love story shapes the film. But it’s their bargemate, the uncouth Père Jules, played by Michel Simon, who steals the show: a well-travelled sailor speckled with tattoos, standing guard over a cabinet of risque and macabre curiosities, whose cabin teems with cats every bit as unruly as he is.The Swiss actor Michel Simon was one of the most distinctive presences in 20th-century French cinema: a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos, and true chaos. Charlie Chaplin called him “the greatest actor in the world”. He worked wit...

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3 w. ago Udo Kier dead: Call of Duty voice actor and horror movie star dies aged 81

Udo Kier, the German actor who appeared in everything from arthouse films to Hollywood blockbusters, has died at the age of 81, according to reports

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3 w. ago Udo Kier dead: Horror movie star and Call of Duty voice actor dies at 81

Udo Kier’s path into film was unpredictable. A chance meeting with director Paul Morrissey on a plane led to roles in Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula

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3 w. ago 'Give us your f**king money': Danny Dyer slams UK government in expletive

The actor used his hosting slot to champion grassroots music venues and call for greater support for the arts

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4 w. ago Yury Revich’s Triumphant Firebird Festival Night With London Firebird Orchestra And Actor Simon Callow

Yury Revich’s Triumphant Firebird Festival Night With London Firebird Orchestra And Actor Simon Callow  Forbes

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