When Dame Helen Mirren was 12, her family took her to see an amateur production of Hamlet by the Southend Shakespeare Company in Essex. “It must have been terrible and I didn’t really understand it, but the whole experience was a revelation,” says Mirren. It was her first real exposure to ... More

If you’re an avid consumer of culture, you’re likely used to seeing Rose Byrne everywhere. There are her roles in some of the best (and most rewatched) comedies of the past decade, like Bridesmaids, Neighbors, Spy and, most recently, Spirited, opposite Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. There are the family films she’s ... More

Having worked as an actress since she was 8 years old, Christina Ricci has had her share of breakout moments. Like as a tiny backup singer and dancer behind Cher in the music video of “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss),” from the soundtrack of her film debut, the ... More

Today, Chopard launches an new campaign entitled “Chopard Loves Cinema” starring Julia Roberts as its global ambassador featuring a series of short films directed by James Gray (Armageddon Time). Since 2021, Roberts served as the ambassador of the Happy Sport and Happy Diamonds collections but ... More

Jessica Chastain, who made her Broadway debut in the 2012 revival of The Heiress, had been looking to return to her theatre roots (she studied acting and repertory theater at Juilliard in New York) despite having had a wide breadth of choice roles in her career. As she told writer ... More

A few years ago, Salma Hayek Pinault’s now-15-year-old daughter, Valentina, came home from school complaining that her mother hadn’t taught her about that elusive fashion item: the Hermès Birkin. She had to learn about it from her friends. “How come you can’t be like the other moms?” Hayek Pinault recalls Valentina ... More

Despite being born two years after the original Top Gun came out in 1986, Glen Powell has powerful memories of watching the film with his father as a child. ​“It was like playing catch with my dad for the first time,” says Powell over Zoom from ... More

Jennifer Coolidge has been making movies and television in Hollywood for 30 years. Still, it feels like the comic actress, perhaps previously best known for her role as manicurist Paulette Bonafonté in Legally Blonde or as Stifler’s mom in the American Pie franchise, was only discovered by America last year.   That’s ... More

The last time LaTanya Richardson Jackson was on Broadway, she was acting as Calpurnia in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill A Mockingbird. This fall, she’s working backstage, directing a revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson that stars her husband, Samuel L. Jackson. “Same hat, different colors” is how she describes ... More