8 h. ago The Girlfriend's Robin Wright admits why working on Prime Video's latest thriller was 'a grind'

Prime Video's new psychological thriller The Girlfriend stars House of the Dragon's Olivia Cooke and is directed by Robin Wright

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12 h. ago The Girlfriend on Prime Video review: Robin Wright serves up high

This thriller revels in the decadent pleasure of watching hot, privileged people implode in lavish settings

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16 h. ago Olivia Cooke talks The Girlfriend, fame and impostor syndrome: 'I feel really uncomfortable with celebrity'

The Manchester-born actor is on a roll. With House of the Dragon taking a backseat, it’s time to talk about her newest thriller

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67 h. ago The Girlfriend: Warning! This sexy oedipal thriller may be too shocking for vanilla viewers

Robin Wright has a steamy relationship with her son as he embarks on a new romance with Olivia Cooke. This drama is the perfect show – and I say this with love – for pervertsThe thriller genre is amazingly malleable. You can start with an escaped monkey, a mystery corpse in frozen tundra, or just two women who can’t bear to be in a room together. You can make your own rules, as long as you do it with style, and take us somewhere surprising. Like using a tricycle to break into the Met Gala.The Girlfriend (Prime Video, from Wednesday 10 September), is a great example. It takes a relatable premise – what if your mother and your partner don’t get on? – and pushes it to extremity. When privileged surgeon Daniel takes new girlfriend Cherry, played by Olivia Cooke, to meet his family, things are tense from the outset. Daniel’s mother, Laura, is extremely protective, and senses Cherry is hiding something. The women strain to remain outwardly polite while their real relationship grows into o...

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6 d. ago Olivia Colman reveals she was 'uncomfortable' with scene from The Roses movie

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch star in The Roses, which follows a couple whose seemingly perfect marriage violently falls apart

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1 week ago ‘We had to up the ante’: Robin Wright on her tense TV tale of incest and violence among London’s billionaires

The Girlfriend is a nail-biting drama that centres on a love triangle between a mother, her son and his girlfriend. Its director and co-stars take us behind the scenesA too-pure young man, training to be a doctor, scion of the wealthiest imaginable family, meets a smoking hot young woman, but is she who she seems? His mother thinks not. The quickest way to describe The Girlfriend is to say that it’s sort of perfect. The perspectives shift between that of Cherry, the girlfriend (Olivia Cooke), and that of Laura, the mother (Robin Wright, who also directs). Whoever’s take you are watching, that’s who you believe. Baroque events, blood and guts, flagrant lies – it all unfurls in exquisite interiors and idealised London street scenes.It is compulsive. I bit my nails to shreds. It’s not clear who’s the psychopath, but someone is – and the crisscrossing erotic tension gives it the inevitability of Greek tragedy. People this irresistible to one another never end up at peace. Continue readi...

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2 w. ago Talking Heads' David Byrne, 73, engaged to girlfriend after almost 10 years of dating

Talking Heads frontman David Byrne subtly announced his engagement to successful financier Mala Gaonkar during a recent interview about his upcoming album, Who Is The Sky?

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3 w. ago The Girlfriend unveils Olivia Cooke in creepy role as raunchy trailer drops

The six-episode series will air on Prime Video on September 10

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3 w. ago The Girlfriend trailer unveils Olivia Cooke in eerie role for steamy thriller

The new psychological drama series is based on Michelle Frances' novel of the same name.

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