The Saturday Interview

<p>‘As a Black person in a white space, I’m breaking the mould’ </p>

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Repair Shop’s Jay Blades: ‘I’ve had sleepovers at the King’s house’

The host of BBC One’s teary phenomenon ‘The Repair Shop’ has overcome racism, homelessness and a mental health crisis to become Middle England’s favourite ‘Black geezer with a gold tooth’. And he’s friends with royalty. He tells Ellie Harrison how he got here

<p>‘I learnt about classism from a very young age – that my circumstances weren’t good enough for some people’</p>

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Hilary Swank: ‘I take the high road on a lot of things, but not that’

<p>‘There’s been no normal relationship since the shoot. Johnny Depp is in another world’ </p>

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Maïwenn on directing Johnny Depp’s comeback: ‘The crew were afraid’

<p>Marian Keyes: ‘I’m 60 now but my emotions are still very [close] to the surface – I’m still hurtable’ </p>

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Marian Keyes: ‘I really don’t like the myth that women don’t want sex’

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Billie Piper: ‘Any abuse of power makes me feel sick and furious’

<p>Cox’s latest role is in ‘a beast of a play’ that’s ‘unremitting’ and ‘never lets you off the hook’ </p>

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Brian Cox: ‘I can’t afford $110 each for one night at the theatre’

<p>Sheryl Crow: ‘I didn’t mean to make a record’ </p>

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Sheryl Crow: ‘I’m saying the same thing about guns, 30 years later’

<p>Eugene Levy returns (hesitantly) to another season of travelling the world in Apple TV+’s ‘The Reluctant Traveller’ </p>

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Eugene Levy: ‘I’m not ruling anything out – including retirement’

<p>Norah Jones is enjoying life in the slow lane</p>

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Norah Jones on overnight fame, vulnerability and singing with Dolly

The ‘Come Away with Me’ singer experienced a stratospheric rise to stardom back in the Noughties. Two decades on, she tells Helen Coffey why she has no interest in reaching the same level of success again – and why her biggest goal these days is to have fun

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Norah Jones on overnight fame, vulnerability and singing with Dolly

The ‘Come Away with Me’ singer experienced a stratospheric rise to stardom back in the Noughties. Two decades on, she tells Helen Coffey why she has no interest in reaching the same level of success again – and why her biggest goal these days is to have fun

<p>‘When I heard that it was Adam Sandler on a spaceship talking to a giant spider, I was like… OK’ </p>

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Paul Dano: ‘If I could only play dorky guys with glasses, I wouldn’t want to be an actor’

<p>The pair reminisce on their greatest pranks and guests </p>

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Ant and Dec on Saturday Night Takeaway and scary stunts: ‘I thought he was a goner’

<p>‘You know when you’re going through hard times in this industry? I’ve finally made it to the top of the mountain’ </p>

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Oscar nominee Danielle Brooks: ‘I’d have made The Color Purple for $2’

<p>‘I’d much rather have a good life than a good career, but I’d love to have both’ </p>

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Domhnall Gleeson: ‘The notion of being attractive was alien to me’

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Domhnall Gleeson: ‘The notion of being attractive was alien to me’

<p>‘I have never in my career been invested in by the industry. Never’ </p>

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Jeffrey Wright: ‘I’m thinking about my Oscar nod more than is healthy’

<p>‘I was young and foolish. I suppose I had a certain amount of arrogance’ </p>

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Jonny Lee Miller on fame, heroin and Harvey Weinstein: ‘I felt fury’

<p>Christopher Eccleston: ‘As a child, I saw TV as overtly political. It was what I saw in the work of Dennis Potter and Alan Bleasdale, so that is what I headed for’ </p>

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Christopher Eccleston: ‘An A-list actor implied I was copping a feel’

The ‘Doctor Who’ star opens up to Helen Brown about feeling betrayed, why he took a part in ‘True Detective’, and how the networks should take note of the success of ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’

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Christopher Eccleston: ‘An A-list actor implied I was copping a feel’

The ‘Doctor Who’ star opens up to Helen Brown about feeling betrayed, why he took a part in ‘True Detective’, and how the networks should take note of the success of ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’

<p>The OG Riot Grrrls are set to release ‘Little Rope’, their 11th album as Sleater-Kinney </p>

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Sleater-Kinney on tragedy and loss: ‘It tears at the scaffolding of one’s life’

<p>‘I’m not necessarily posh... but there’s certainly been privilege in my life’ </p>

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EastEnders’ Himesh Patel on his move to Hollywood in just three years

<p>‘I’m pretty good at just blocking any of the noise associated with whatever fandom is – not letting it affect me, or more importantly my family’ </p>

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Jamie Dornan: ‘My stalker came to my house when my kids were there’

<p>Debut: Millie Gibson will join the Whoniverse on Christmas Day</p>

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Doctor Who’s Millie Gibson: ‘There are so many controversial elements’

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Doctor Who’s Millie Gibson: ‘There are so many controversial elements’

<p>Bella Ramsey: ‘I don’t think I’ve met anyone who’s in Chicken Run with me’</p>

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Bella Ramsey on Chicken Run 2, neurodivergence and child acting

<p>‘Regardless of your colour of your skin, regardless of how tall you are or short you are or what sex you are, regardless of how you identify, you should have the ability to play anything’ </p>

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Andy Serkis: ‘I defy anyone not to tap their foot to Michael Jackson’

<p>Simon Pegg: ‘It’s a great honour that any time anything bad happens, there’s a meme of me raising a pint’ </p>

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Simon Pegg: ‘People always ask when I’m going on Strictly – never’

<p>‘I’m an absolute neurotic hyperactive beast – I’m not necessarily good at shutting off and being cold’ </p>

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Jodie Whittaker: ‘I’m forever grief-ridden I’m not playing the Doctor’

<p>‘I don’t take on bad guys that are stroking their invisible moustache at the audience’</p>

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Jason Isaacs on playing Cary Grant and not being comfortable in his own skin

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Dolly Parton: ‘I have to be who I am, so I fought for that’

<p>James O’Brien: ‘I fell for Matt Hancock’s schtick for a while. I’ve got to own up to that’</p>

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LBC’s James O’Brien on the problem with Farage and being a ‘bruiser’

<p>‘How would I like to be remembered? As a feminist icon’</p>

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Uncut Gems star Julia Fox on fame, heroin addiction and dating Kanye

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Dolly Parton: ‘I have to be who I am, so I fought for that’

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LBC’s James O’Brien on the problem with Farage and being a ‘bruiser’

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Uncut Gems star Julia Fox on fame, heroin addiction and dating Kanye

<p>The Rolling Stones: ‘Charlie Watts is right there, over the shoulder, and all I know is that he’s very happy that the band’s still going’</p>

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The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards: ‘Don’t get me going on modern-day music. It’s a one-way toilet’

<p>Paloma Faith releases ‘Glorification of Sadness’ in February 2024 </p>

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Paloma Faith: ‘It was worth losing our relationship for our children’

<p>Pete Townshend: ‘I was terrified of going to court. I thought I would be used as a poster boy, so I refused. I took the caution’ </p>

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Pete Townshend: How Keir Starmer confronted me over child abuse images

<p>Sebastian Faulks is due to release his 16th novel ‘The Seventh Son’ </p>

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Sebastian Faulks on rewriting Bond, literary trends and his new novel

<p>The National releases their 10th studio album ‘Laugh Track’ </p>

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The National: ‘Everything was evidence of failure’

<p>Sara Pascoe: ‘You’re supposed to be very, very grateful if IVF works’ </p>

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Sara Pascoe: ‘In my thirties, I was suddenly a “childless woman”’

<p>‘AI is like a robot taking your humanity, your soul’ </p>

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Tim Burton on cancel culture, Johnny Depp and his Beetlejuice sequel

<p>‘Yearning for justice’: Daryl McCormack and Ruth Wilson in the hard-hitting new BBC drama ‘The Woman in the Wall’</p>

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Ruth Wilson on the ‘painful past’ of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

<p>‘When I used to do stand-up earlier on in this country... there was a bit more freedom to be quite vulnerable and personal because people didn’t know who the f*** you were’ </p>

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Rose Matafeo: ‘They’re politicising my body in a way I don’t’

<p>‘I learned that anyone could play Blanche DuBois. If you just bring yourself to the role, you will be successful’ </p>

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How Patsy Ferran became the leading stage star of her generation

<p>Sir Grayson Perry: ‘There’s a lot of art around that feels like student work’ </p>

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Grayson Perry: ‘I can’t pretend to be a rebel any more’

<p>‘I wanted to make a movie where a man who really has nothing to offer becomes a movie star, just by virtue of time and place, and how he looks’ </p>

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Charlie Day: ‘Some critics act like you’ve murdered their grandmother’

<p>'The powers-that-be really hate hip-hop in a lot of ways, and they’ve been looking for ways to destroy the spirit of hip-hop, to make people fearful’ </p>

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Ice Cube: ‘Hip-hop was pure – then the agenda changed’

<p>Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy: ‘Scale in cinema is a peculiar thing’</p>

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Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy: ‘There’s nothing bigger than Oppenheimer’

<p>Turner: ‘There’s some people that I look at that I find attractive. And isn’t that OK?’ </p>

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Aidan Turner on his #MeToo tennis drama and being a sex symbol

<p>‘It’s very clear to me what a creative life is about’</p>

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Hayley Atwell: ‘There were weird rumours... it’s not what I’m about’

<p>Mark Rylance: ‘There are great benefits when someone is an immigrant to the reality they’re playing’</p>

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Mark Rylance on talking with the King, method acting and the Iraq war

<p>‘Me and Clea DuVall were, I guess, famous teen actors, but we were never allowed to feel ‘normal’. It was made clear to us that we were broken in some way’ </p>

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Natasha Lyonne: ‘I’m a broad – but that’s been a gift and a curse’

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Hayley Atwell: ‘There were weird rumours... it’s not what I’m about’

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Mark Rylance on talking with the King, method acting and the Iraq war

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Natasha Lyonne: ‘I’m a broad – but that’s been a gift and a curse’

<p>Kelsey Grammer: 'Tolerance is a beautiful concept – but not particularly realised in our country’</p>

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Kelsey Grammer: ‘There have been periods where Satan got a foothold’

The ‘Cheers’ star is a born-again Christian and plays a controversial real-life pastor in new film ‘Jesus Revolution’. He talks to Louis Chilton about faith, loss, and the return of Frasier Crane

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Kelsey Grammer: ‘There have been periods where Satan got a foothold’

The ‘Cheers’ star is a born-again Christian and plays a controversial real-life pastor in new film ‘Jesus Revolution’. He talks to Louis Chilton about faith, loss, and the return of Frasier Crane

<p>‘I had paparazzi chasing me, people approaching me. You weren’t allowed to really be yourself’</p>

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Josh Hartnett on Black Mirror, Oppenheimer and saying no to celebrity

<p>Daisy May Cooper: ‘Judging anyone’s body is f***ing wrong’ </p>

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Daisy May Cooper: ‘People told me I’m not funny because I’m not fat’

<p>Richard E Grant: ‘After 38 years together I know I can anticipate what her response would be’ </p>

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Richard E Grant on grief, music, and his late wife Joan: ‘I still have silent conversations with her’

<p>‘I felt the need for a new adventure. I felt a sense of curiosity, wanting to approach my creativity through a different lens’</p>

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Arlo Parks on privacy, Phoebe Bridgers and pushing past her boundaries

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Arlo Parks on privacy, Phoebe Bridgers and pushing past her boundaries

<p>‘You’re not that special, which is actually such a relief to me’ </p>

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Rachel Bloom: ‘AI will be a good writer when it learns to hate itself’

<p>‘There are so many weird websites where people obsess over women’s faces’</p>

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Bel Powley: ‘That Diary of a Teenage Girl scene still sticks out’

<p>Melanie Lynskey has found her spotlight as Shauna in Showtime’s thriller series ‘Yellowjackets’</p>

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Melanie Lynskey: ‘Doesn’t everybody want to be loved by gay people?’

As the Kiwi actor returns for a second season of ‘Yellowjackets’, she speaks to Annabel Nugent about making her debut as a teenager opposite Kate Winslet, being a queer icon, and why ‘crying holidays’ should be a thing

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Melanie Lynskey: ‘Doesn’t everybody want to be loved by gay people?’

As the Kiwi actor returns for a second season of ‘Yellowjackets’, she speaks to Annabel Nugent about making her debut as a teenager opposite Kate Winslet, being a queer icon, and why ‘crying holidays’ should be a thing