British cinema

Actors 5 months ago

Maisie Williams: being Arya Stark was the easy part

She spent eight seasons mastering the art of becoming someone else. Now Maisie Williams is dealing with the harder part: staying herself. After one of television’s most complete childhood performances, the Bristol-born actress is deliberately, persistently, refusing to…

Actors 5 months ago

Jason Statham, the diver who turned falling into an art form

For twelve years Jason Statham trained to compete at the Olympics. He never made it. What he learned…

Actors 6 months ago

David Tennant Couldn’t Outrun the Tenth Doctor — So He Played Its Opposite

For two decades he has been the grinning face on the British cultural mantelpiece. The work he is…

Actors 6 months ago

Michaela Coel keeps refusing the easier version of herself

She turned down a million dollars from Netflix to keep ownership of I May Destroy You. Five years…

Actors 6 months ago

Sienna Miller and the long argument with the British press

She was a fashion verb, a hacked phone, the wronged fiancée; the decade after she went quiet was…

Actors 6 months ago

Claire Foy, the actress who put down the crown and didn’t pick it back up

Two Emmys, a Golden Globe and a generation's first picture of Queen Elizabeth II on screen. Then, instead…

Actors 6 months ago

Jessica Gunning, the role that turned every previous performance into rehearsal

She had been working steadily in British television for nearly two decades when Martha Scott arrived. Then the…

Actors 1 year ago

Keira Knightley, the actress who let Pirates of the Caribbean pay for Pride & Prejudice

The franchise that simultaneously made and nearly broke her was also the thing that paid for the roles…

Actors 1 year ago

Charlie Hunnam, the actor who had to vanish into Ed Gein to finally escape Jax Teller

The British actor who defined a generation of viewers as Jax Teller in Sons of Anarchy is now…

Actors 3 years ago

Jim Sturgess, the actor who keeps refusing to play the obvious next version of himself

The British actor who sang Beatles songs for Hollywood and then spent twenty years doing the opposite of…

Actors 3 years ago

Carey Mulligan, the actress who keeps winning every argument except the Oscar

Three Oscar nominations and an Emmy nomination for Beef Season 2, a CBE from King Charles III, and…

Actors 3 years ago

Hayley Atwell, the actress Marvel made famous and theatre refuses to give back

Hayley Atwell built a dual career that most actors never manage: a Marvel franchise that made her face…

Actors 3 years ago

Dev Patel, the actor who took a decade to make the film Hollywood kept refusing to greenlight

From a council estate in Harrow to the Oscar stage in a single film, and then a decade…