Michael Caine’s most embarrassing audition: “Automatically disqualified”
Caine held a bit of a grudge after this humbling audition.
Author: Michael Gordon Archives: 06/2025
The director who made Danny Boyle want to retire: “Whoa, that guy can really do it”
Boyle was bowled over by this director’s skills.
Hayden Panettiere reveals desire to work with Taylor Sheridan: “I love Taylor Sheridan’s world”
Panettiere would love to join Sheridan’s rough and tumble TV empire.
The director who accused Ryan Reynolds of desecrating cinema: “This is an insult to the art”
Reynolds? Desecrating cinema? Say it ain’t so!
The campy horror movie Billy Bob Thornton wants to forget: “It’s not on the resumé”
Don’t remind Thornton about this one.
When John Wayne “almost chickened out” of finally playing against type
Wayne was insecure about making a movie like this.
The Sean Connery movie the director wanted to delete from history: “God, that was horrible”
This director knew the movie was doomed from day two.
The TV movie that changed the course of the Cold War: “Very effective and left me greatly depressed”
This film was so stark that it terrified a nation.
James Nelson-Joyce on ‘This City Is Ours’, his “brother” Stephen Graham, and those James Bond rumours: “I’d like to do it my way”
British TV’s fastest-rising star chats about his burgeoning career…