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This month we’re celebrating The Marvels – not only the superhero stars of Disney’s latest but also the actors and writers who’ve brought ideas to celluloid life. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are disrupting our ability to bring you set visits and interviews but not thwarting them. However, it’s important to point out that all the interviews with actors and writers that we have in these pages were conducted before strike action – so no one has been crossing picket lines.
Before everyone downed tools, I got to hang out with Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist in London to discuss their tennis love-triangle drama, Challengers (and to talk shit about each other – in a bantering, cute way) as well as sitting down with Greta Gerwig to chinwag about Barbie for the podcast in the pinkest junket I’ve ever been to. We hope we’ll be doing all that stuff again when negotiations have reached a settlement and artists are rightfully compensated for their work. In the meantime, enjoy the fruits of our labour within the Hollywood ecosystem right here…
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CALL SHEET THIS ISSUE’S EXTRAS
CONTRIBUTOR
KIM TAYLOR-FOSTER @K_IMBOT
After telling director Nia DaCosta I live on the UK’s south coast, she shared that while prepping The Marvels in London she drove every other weekend to Devon just to hang out.
DEPUTY EDITOR
MATT MAYTUM @MATTMAYTUM
One perk of this job? Three IMAX screenings of Oppenheimer before it opened. Another perk? Chatting to Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy on the TF podcast.
ACTING NEWS EDITOR
JAMIE GRAHAM @JAMIE_GRAHAM9
After talking to David Gordon Green about The Exorcist: Believer, he gave me a Zoom tour of the posters in his study: Argento’s Suspiria, Badlands, Deliverance, Medium Cool…
ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
EMILY MURRAY @EMILYVMURRAY
When I talked to Matt Damon and Emily Blunt for Oppenheimer they sang me a song as I walked into the room so I could have intro music like I was a wrestler.
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
NEIL SMITH @TOTALFILM
Having just taken a lift up one of Battersea Power Station’s chimneys, I enjoyed the Squaring the Circle doc’s tales of how its subjects created – and lost – Pink Floyd’s flying pig.
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
JAMES MOTTRAM @JAMESMOTTRAM
Loved chatting to Gael García Bernal, who was coming off a high when we met – the Sundance premiere of his wrestling drama Cassandro. There were tears all round!