Juliette Binoche: an uncomfortable reckoning with jealousy and performance in ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’
An uncomfortable reckoning with truth and power.
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 02/2025
Why ‘Total Recall’ made Sharon Stone swear off Hollywood: “I’m not gonna work until I get a job I care about”
A role in this sci-fi classic made Stone want to leave it all behind.
Why George Clooney turned down $35m for an airline commercial: “We decided it’s not worth it”
Someone with a moral compass.
‘Tombstone’: the best Kurt Russell movie that nobody’s ever seen
Quite literally nobody has ever seen this film.
“Walkenising”: Christopher Walken’s least favourite thing about being Christopher Walken
This process has plagued Walken for his whole career.
When Val Kilmer hated Matthew Modine for absolutely no reason: “I’m sick of you”
An unexplainable disdain.
How the ‘JFK’ conspiracy almost ruined Oliver Stone’s career: “There’s no evidence, there’s no trial”
It’s been mostly downhill ever since.
Robert Downey Jr on his overrated performance in ‘Ally McBeal’: “For some people, that’s the litmus”
He wasn’t impressed with himself.
How the rise of Clint Eastwood gave John Wayne anxiety: “What do people see in these films?”
Wayne just couldn’t understand where Eastwood was coming from.