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Each week, we spend half an hour (or thereabouts) with a musician or film-maker of the moment. This series comes with footnotes …
  • ‘The standard of music these days is fucking terrible’ ... Mark E Smith.

    Mark E Smith – the final interview: 'I can clear a pub when I want to'

    The Fall frontman, who has died aged 60, remained combative and funny to the last. Here is his final Guardian interview, conducted in autumn 2017
  • ‘We’ve known each other so long now, but we don’t argue …’ Chris, left, and Kem.

    Love Island's Chris and Kem: 'I mean … we’re not necessarily rappers, are we?'

    Chris Hughes and Kem Cetinay’s bromance was the most popular relationship in ITV’s smash-hit reality show. They went on to have a grime hit and beef with Lethal Bizzle. How will they cash in on this talent next year?
  • Kate McKinnon

    SNL’s Kate McKinnon on playing Theresa May: ‘There are lots of things about her I find endearing’

    The Ghostbusters star’s turn as Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live made her one of 2016’s breakout stars. Her latest impression? A mischievous take on the PM
  • Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘Fish Mooney is really my alter ego.’

    Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘Who’s the best at music in my family? Everyone plays in their own sandbox’

    Fresh from weeing over a crowd of people in Girls Trip, the actor offers her thoughts on the various skill sets of her family
  • 'Filmstars Don't Die in Liverpool' film photocall, Los Angeles, USA - 17 Oct 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sundholm Magnus/action press/REX/Shutterstock (9141941ag) Jamie Bell 'Filmstars Don't Die in Liverpool' film photocall, Los Angeles, USA - 17 Oct 2017

    Jamie Bell on 6 Days: 'I was terrified – they were firing guns at me'

    The one-time child actor talks about box-office disasters and training to play the leader of a crack SAS team in the new thriller 6 Days, about the 1980 Iranian embassy siege
  • RZA performing at the Governors Ball music festival in New York 2017

    RZA: 'Martin Shkreli sold our album on eBay for $1.2m – he could have got more'

    The Wu-Tang Clan rapper-producer-director boasts 16 names and plays a mean game of chess – and he’s had the last laugh over the disgraced ‘pharma-bro’
  • Build Presents Jennifer Tilly, Fiona Dourif & Don Mancini Discussing The Movie "Cult of Chucky"<br>NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 03:  Actress Jennifer Tilly attends Build to discuss The Movie 'Cult of Chucky' at Build Studio on October 3, 2017 in New York City.  (Photo by Desiree Navarro/WireImage)

    Jennifer Tilly: ‘How frightening can Chucky be? He smokes a doobie’

    The star of the Child’s Play series on making the films more scary again – and what makes her a champion poker player
  • Shane Richie

    Shane Richie: 'Nick Knowles is a chippie who sings. I do this for a living’

    Don’t lump the EastEnders star in with his light-entertainment peers. The Planet of the Apes and Paul Weller obsessive has played festivals, you know
  • Photo of Linda Ronstadt<br>UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1980:  Photo of Linda Ronstadt  (Photo by Jim Shea/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Linda Ronstadt: 'I don’t like any of my albums'

    The country music legend has won 11 Grammys, made 28 studio albums and worked with everyone from Paul Simon to Frank Zappa. She says listening to any of it now is horrifying
  • Wyclef Jean

    Wyclef Jean: 'Changing the world and having sex – I believe in both'

    It’s a year ending in seven, so the one-time Fugee must be releasing an album. While out jogging, he contemplates the great beyond – and how he inspired Beyoncé
  • Randy Newman

    Randy Newman: 'I would never not play You've Got a Friend in Me'

    The singer is back with his first album in nine years, complete with songs about Putin and medical research. But he still plays the Toy Story tear-jerkers too
  • Noomi Rapace Unlocked

    Noomi Rapace: ‘Amy Winehouse was like an angel when I wasn’t in a good place’

    The Swedish star of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo explains how she plans to do justice to the late singer, plus the logistics of that self-caesarian scene in Prometheus
  • 57th Monte Carlo TV Festival : Day Two<br>MONTE-CARLO, MONACO - JUNE 17:  Robert Patrick from 'Scorpion' TV Show poses for a Photocall during the 57th Monte Carlo TV Festival : Day Two on June 17, 2017 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.  (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Terminator 2's Robert Patrick: 'James Cameron said I gave him a little scare'

    The actor best known for playing the terrifying T-1000 discusses freaking out directors, hanging with Arnie and the influence of kabuki theatre on his acting
  • Freema Agyeman

    Freema Agyeman: ‘Bradley Walsh is Doctor Who’s new assistant? He’ll be brilliant’

    The actor spent two series in the Tardis, played a lawyer in Law & Order, and is now in a vampire caper. Which might explain the home blood-testing kits …
  • Tara Reid

    Sharknado 5’s Tara Reid: ‘It can get abusive. There’s a lot of bullying’

    The American Pie star has battled both online trolls and shark-based extreme weather events. But through it all, she still knows how to tell Jedward apart
  • Vanishing act … Bryan Cranston.

    Bryan Cranston: ‘I would go to malls, sit near arguing couples and watch them’

    The Breaking Bad star’s new film Wakefield is a study of a man who vanishes, only to spy on his grieving family. Would his years of pre-fame voyeurism come in handy?
  • will.i.am … tech takes time

    will.i.am: ‘We live in a world where destroying people and their dreams is a business’

    The rapper, TV talent-show judge and serial tech entrepreneur talks about the finale of The Voice Kids – and why terrible reviews don’t matter
  • Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters

    Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl: ‘I got 6,000 muffins from Lionel Richie after missing Glastonbury’

    When a broken leg scuppered the Nirvana legend’s plans to headline the Pyramid stage in 2015, his only consolation was a present from a pop hero. But now, the Foos are ready to finally hit Worthy Farm
  • Rat Scabies

    The Damned's Rat Scabies: 'We were self-destructive – every time we made it, we did something daft'

    The punk legend and Damned drummer also known as Chris Millar on his love of eBay, his hunt for the holy grail and that time he fell through a trap door
  • 2014 Music Midtown Festival - Day 1<br>ATLANTA, GA - SEPTEMBER 19:  Daryl "DMC" McDaniels and Reverend "Run" Joseph Simmons of Run DMC perform during the 2014 Music Midtown Festival at Piedmont Park on September 19, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia.  (Photo by Chris McKay/Getty Images)

    Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels: 'We lived sex, drugs and rock‘n‘roll – but never put it in our music'

    One half of the remaining members of the veteran hip-hop group talks about his hedonistic past, his present passion for comic books and Pink Floyd
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