Mads Mikkelsen’s curious first trip to the Cannes Film Festival: “I was wearing big woollen socks”
He wasn’t best prepared.
Author: Scott Campbell Archives: 10/2024
How a 1980s TV show made an EGOT the most prestigious accolade in Hollywood
Unusual origins for a well-known term.
“You were terrific, you SOB”: the John Wayne performance Kirk Douglas called his best in years
A huge pat on the back.
The scene that almost cost Arnold Schwarzenegger his fingers: “I felt this unbelievable pain”
A close call for the action icon.
“You were really nice about it”: the multiple productions shut down by Woody Harrelson’s farts
The evacuation protocol was initiated.
“It’s showbusiness”: why Jason Statham doesn’t want to be cheese on toast in a world of sushi
Believe it or not, it makes perfect sense.
“He’s got nothing to learn from me”: the one actor Tom Hanks called ahead of the curve
He stayed in his lane.
The actor Tom Hardy compared to a digestive biscuit: “He quintessentially exists”
Not even the chocolate kind.
The improbable actor Sean Connery endorsed as James Bond: “I think that time has passed”
It would have enraged the purists.
Anatomy of a Scene: It’s all downhill for ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ after a stunningly surreal opening sequence
The undoubted high point of a cinematic slog.