The night Katharine Hepburn thought she’d made it but got fired instead: “That’s that, I’m a star”
An overconfident Hepburn crashed and burned.
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Tadashi Suzuki: The “genius” director Val Kilmer always regretted rejecting
Kilmer felt he took the wrong path at the crossroads.
The director who told Judi Dench she’d never make it: “You have the wrong face”
She proved him wrong.
Neil LaBute on ‘How to Fight Loneliness’ and exploring the grey areas in a black and white world
“The grey areas are some of the most interesting…”
The traumatic experience that made Jodie Foster swear off the theatre forever: “The world fell apart”
Foster has terrible memories associated with the theatre.
‘North by Northwest’ review: Emma Rice makes a playful adaptation of a Hitchcock classic
A joyful but uneven production.
The director Anthony Hopkins hated so much he felt sorry for him: “A very sick man”
Hopkins told this director to his face that he was a bastard.
Director Emma Rice on adapting Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’ for the stage: “I love the impossibility of it”
She even managed to untangle the plot.
Morgan Freeman’s least favourite kind of acting: “Some actors just love it, I find I don’t”
Despite starting his career with this kind of acting, Freeman would never go back.
Timothy West, the British stage and screen actor, dead at 90
A familiar face for generations of viewers.
How Walt Disney charmed Sean Connery on his first visit to Hollywood
James Bond and Walt Disney had a blast hanging out together.