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<p>Billie Piper stars in ‘Scoop’, about the BBC’s quest to interview Prince Andrew: ‘I realised, Oh my God, there are these unsung women behind the story’ </p>

Interview

Billie Piper: ‘Any abuse of power makes me feel sick and furious’

The actor talks to Jessie Thompson about the ‘Newsnight’ interview drama ‘Scoop’, intimacy coordinators, tabloid behaviour and her time on ‘Doctor Who’

Billie Piper addresses Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor Who comments

<p>Drama: Keeley Hawes as Amanda Thirsk, Rufus Sewell as Prince Andrew and Charity Wakefield as Princess Beatrice in ‘Scoop’ </p>

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Netflix’s Scoop brings a new perspective on the Newsnight royal saga

<p>‘I have a soapbox to stand on and something worth saying’ </p>

Interview

Olivia Williams on playing Queen Camilla and her ‘harrowing’ time on Friends

<p>Gorgeous, willowy and insouciant: Anna May Wong in ‘Island of Lost Men’ </p>

Flashbacks

Anna May Wong and the mystery of Hollywood’s first Chinese-American star

Inside Film

<p>Down in the Gumps: Tom Hanks as Forrest in the 1994 Oscar winner</p>

Lay off Forrest Gump – this Tom Hanks classic doesn’t deserve the hate

It may have won six Oscars and made nearly $700m at the box office, but Robert Zemeckis’s ‘Forrest Gump’ remains violently polarising. Geoffrey Macnab looks at the disputed legacy of a modern classic

<p>Subtle brilliance: the actor’s downplayed style made her the antithesis of many other Hollywood female stars of the time </p>

Screen goddess Gene Tierney was more than just another Hollywood tragedy

As a major season of her films comes to the BFI, Geoffrey Macnab unravels the extraordinary life and career of a cinematic gem whose image as ‘the most beautiful woman in movie history’ has all too often overshadowed a timeless talent

Reviews

<p>Uncanny: Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell as Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew in ‘Scoop’ </p>

Scoop immaculately recreates Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview – but questions remain

<p>Behind you!: Sonia Braga and Nell Tiger Free in ‘The First Omen’</p>

Who would have thought a prequel to The Omen would be so brilliant?

Interviews

<p>‘We’ve seen the celebration of being gay, of gay marriage, of having children and all of those wonderful things, but not so much the splitting up’ </p>

Interview

Luke Evans on fashion, marriage and body image: ‘I wasn’t pretty or flawless – I looked like a bloke’

<p>Ernie Hudson: ‘We can say it’s a racial thing, but I think if Eddie Murphy had played the role I played, he would have been paid very well’ </p>

Interview

Ernie Hudson on the new Ghostbusters sequel and the ‘disappointing’ reboot

<p>‘The most important thing for me in my career was to have arrived playing someone like that – a free woman’</p>

Interview

The White Lotus’s Simona Tabasco on fame, sex scenes and being buried alive for her new film

<p>Scream queen: Caroline Munro in the classic Hammer horror film ‘Dracula AD 1972’ </p>

Interview

Hammer Horror icon Caroline Munro on sex, violence and 007

<p>Viswanathan: ‘I have such a baby face... you can dress me up, dress me down, do whatever you want’</p>

Interview

Drive-Away Dolls’s Geraldine Viswanathan wants to be your next romcom queen

<p>‘Alice Walker wanted <em>The Color Purple</em> to stand as an expression of her own bisexuality – we have to own those things’ </p>

Interview

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Origin, Will Smith and how The Color Purple failed Black lesbians

<p>‘When I heard that it was Adam Sandler on a spaceship talking to a giant spider, I was like… OK’ </p>

interview

Paul Dano: ‘If I could only play dorky guys with glasses, I wouldn’t want to be an actor’

<p>Ian McShane: ‘When you make big movies like John Wick, it’s like you’re a small army that takes over town'</p>

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Ian McShane on Deadwood, Twitter, and growing bored with American Gods

Features

<p>Hinata Hiiragi and Sōya Kurokawa in the award-winning Japanese drama ‘Monster’</p>

Inside Monster, the groundbreaking new film exploring queer childhood

<p>The title screen for the cult 1992 video game ‘Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis’</p>

How a revolutionary video game rescued Dune from obscurity

<p>Zac Efron turns in a tough but disarmingly tender performance as the last surviving Von Erich brother </p>

Meet the wrestlers who transformed Zac Efron for The Iron Claw

<p>Smiling evil: Sandra Hüller as Hedwig in ‘The Zone of Interest’</p>

Features

The Zone of Interest: Inside the making of a radical Holocaust film

Comment

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To hell with the hair – Aaron Taylor-Johnson will make a perfect Bond

<p>Emma Stone accepting her Oscar for ‘Poor Things’ </p>

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Emma Stone’s Best Actress win over Lily Gladstone doesn’t feel right

<p>Bomb appetite: Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’ </p>

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Why Oppenheimer was a deserving winner of the Oscar for Best Picture

<p>One of Florence Pugh’s few short moments of limelight in ‘Dune: Part Two'</p>

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Dune 2’s key to success? Giving great actors oddly short screen time

Flashbacks

<p>Nineties greats: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair lead the cast of ‘Cruel Intentions’</p>

How Cruel Intentions compiled the best soundtrack in teen movie history

<p>Lead duo Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, neither of whom were the first choice for their roles </p>

Blazing Saddles at 50: The story of the wackiest western ever made

<p>Fond of your face: Bridget Fonda at a premiere in 1999, and in films ‘Single White Female’, ‘Scandal’ and ‘Jackie Brown’</p>

Bridget Fonda at 60: the Nineties great who vanished without a trace

<p>Samurai man: Tom Cruise in his 2003 historical epic ‘The Last Samurai’ </p>

Was The Last Samurai Tom Cruise’s last great movie?

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