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John Boyega interview: ‘It’s important to voice your truth’

The actor on playing the trailblazing British police officer Leroy Logan, and why he’ll always be a London boy

Steve McQueen: ‘Black people are weirdly missing from the narrative’

The acclaimed artist and film-maker answers questions from celebrity admirers including Idris Elba, Viola Davis, David Lammy and more

Sophia Loren: ‘The body changes. The mind does not’

The 86-year-old, star of the Netflix drama The Life Ahead, looks back at her own life, from the squalor of wartime Naples to the glamour of international fame

The Undoing review – Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman start to unravel

A moneyed couple, a seductive stranger, a murder ... HBO’s latest series has all the usual thriller hallmarks, but its stellar performances make it truly gripping

Lily James: ‘I got sucked into the vortex. I didn’t know which way to turn’

She made her name playing sunny sweethearts, but now James is going gothic in a new Rebecca. She talks getting spooked on set, Covid bubbles and co-stars

Adeel Akhtar: ‘People are ready to stretch their ideas on diversity’

The Bafta-winning actor on Four Lions, Enola Holmes and why he spent lockdown retracing his family history – and trampolining

Sidse Babett Knudsen: the Borgen star mixing Danish drama and Westminster intrigue

Set to reprise her role as prime minister in new series of hit Scandi drama, actor is just as excited to share limelight in David Hare thriller, Roadkill

Samantha Morton: ‘My favourite TV villain? It’s vain, but I think it’s me in The Walking Dead’

The film and TV star on her hatred of the Kardashians, her love of Four in a Bed and why she’d love to be on Horrible Histories

Ratched review – gothic, gory thrills with the Cuckoo’s Nest villain

Sarah Paulson is brilliantly menacing as Nurse Ratched in Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix series, which melds the 1975 film with his American Horror Story hallmarks

Lovers Rock review – Steve McQueen throws the best party ever

Filled with rows, romance and sexual adventure, this story of an uproarious celebration in 80s west London is an audacious, euphoric experience

‘I’m a loner’: Gillian Jacobs on the snarky art of playing misfits

In Community, Girls and Love the actor has been an activist, an artist and an addict. As her new film, I Used to Go Here, opens, she talks about why she likes messy, complex characters

Cynthia Nixon: ‘Will Donald Trump leave quietly? I don’t know’

The actor who once ran to be governor of New York is political to her bones, passionate about trans rights, Black Lives Matter and the future of the left. She discusses the rise of Trump – and why she’s still optimistic

Line of Duty’s Rochenda Sandall: ‘There are so many dimensions to domestic abuse’

After her villainous role in the explosive police drama, the star is playing an isolated woman in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and an activist in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe

‘This show is just the start’: inside the BBC’s all-person-of-colour A Suitable Boy

It has 110 actors, is based on one of the longest books in English - and it’s the BBC’s first historical drama with no white characters. But some think the series doesn’t go far enough. We take a look behind the scenes

‘Mike Leigh’s office almost went up in flames’: casting directors tell all

As Bafta rewards scripted casting for the first time, those doing the choosing talk us through the process – from being flashed at in auditions to chasing would-be stars around with a tenner

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