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<p>Alexandra Shipp plays a dancer, Susan, in ‘Tick, Tick... Boom!’: ‘I don’t consider myself a traditional musical theatre singer, so in the audition tape I just went for it’ </p>

Alexandra Shipp: ‘I feel for Alec Baldwin – he is not a murderer’

The ‘Tick, Tick... Boom!’ star talks to Ellie Harrison about singing opposite Andrew Garfield in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical, her concerns over gun safety on film sets, playing Aaliyah, and coming out earlier this year. Just don’t ask her about X-Men

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Geoffrey MacnabWhy François Truffaut and his work should never be forgotten

Ahead of a major BFI retrospective of Truffaut’s films, Geoffrey Macnab looks back on his career, and wonders how the French New Wave director seems to have fallen out of vogue

Geoffrey MacnabMichael Shannon is so right to play notorious senator Joseph McCarthy

The notorious politician still ranks as one of the primary villains in 20th century US history. So why, asks Geoffrey Macnab, have filmmakers been so wary of dramatising his life?

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