The 1993 dream role Hugh Laurie was forced to abandon 23 years later: “It was a little bit painful”
Right place, wrong time.
Crime
“I went a little bit method”: the 2014 movie character Stephen Graham called “twatty”
Tried to make his detective inspector as unlikeable as possible.
The unmade 1985 movie Martin Scorsese quit in disgust: “They’ll never make this”
It never worked out.
“This was something else”: the 2015 role that convinced Stellan Skarsgård to break a lifetime habit
It was a part he couldn’t pass on.
Which rock star lived in Sharon Tate’s house a year before the Manson Family murders?
Gave up the lease to director Roman Polanski and Tate…
Did Jerry Lee Lewis really try to assassinate his old pal Elvis Presley in 1976?
“They said I was going to shoot him, and I was if I could have got to him.”
“It’s the template”: the most influential acting performance of the 1960s, according to Karl Urban
What might just be the most perfect movie of all time.
Could London tourism live without Jack the Ripper?
Is London’s Jack the Ripper’s dark tourism boom morally right?
The sickening ‘sniper tourists’ of Sarajevo
Chilling reports of human blood sports during the Bosnian War
Gene Hackman found the character of his most famous role with just one move: “That’s him!”
It ended up creating an icon.
“The film is filled with that stuff”: the classic gangster movie homaged in ‘The Departed’
A crime movie classic.
