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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAndrew Scott fans have defended the actor after he was subjected to what have been branded “inappropriate” and “uncomfortable” questions from a BBC reporter on the Baftas red carpet.The Irish star has been highly praised for his performance in the Andrew Haigh-directed drama All of Us Strangers, in which he plays a grieving writer who begins a romance with his mysterious neighbour…

Andrew Scott was bombarded by inappropriate questions from a BBC reporter on the Baftas red carpet.The actor, 47, appeared uncomfortable as he was asked questions about Saltburn and fellow Irish actor Barry Keoghan.“Do you know Barry well?” the reporter asked, before then enquiring about his reaction to the “naked dance scene at the end of Saltburn”.Trying to dodge the awkward question, Scott suggested he didn’t want to “spoil it for anybody” but the reporter continued with his line of questioning.“There is a lot of talk…

Andrew Scott delivered an "extraordinary" performance in All Of Us Strangers, his co-star Claire Foy said from the 2024 Baftas red carpet on Sunday (18 February).The Irish actor, 47, stars as screenwriter Adam, who develops a relationship with Harry, a neighbour played by Paul Mescal.Despite receiving praise for his performance, Scott missed out on a leading actor nomination."I think everybody knows how extraordinary is and what an incredible actor he is... I just plan on telling him that every day for the rest of his…

Netflix has released the first trailer for Scoop, its drama about the machinations behind Prince Andrew’s disastrous interview with Emily Maitlis on the BBC’s Newsnight in 2019.Featuring Gillian Anderson as Maitlis and Rufus Sewell as Andrew, the film is based on a book by former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister, and is directed by Philip Martin. McAlister is played in the film by Billie Piper, while Keeley Hawes is Prince Andrew’s private secretary Amanda Thirsk.Described in the Guardian as “devastating” and a “PR…

Scoop, starring Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell, will explore the behind-the-scenes preparations for the explosive 2019 interview Prince Andrew’s damning, mortifying, and horrifying interview about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — and the allegations brought against him by Epstein trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre — is getting the Netflix movie treatment. Scoop, out April 5, will recount how the infamous 2019 Newsnight interview came about, with Gillian Anderson starring as journalist…

Andrew McMillan’s debut poetry collection physical, an explicit yet tender study of masculinity in the post-industrial north of England, was a thrilling paean to young queer male experience in the noughties. In 2015 it became the first poetry collection to win the Guardian first book award; its successor, playtime, took the inaugural Polari prize for LGBTQ+ literature and was followed in 2021 by pandemonium.McMillan has now harnessed his considerable talent to writing a novel. Pity, appearing 40 years after the 1984-85…

Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan’s first novel takes place in a world immediately recognisable from his three collections of poetry – Physical, Playtime and Pandemonium. It is set in his native Barnsley, a town still living in the shadow of the destruction of its mining industry and the after-effects of Thatcherism.Pity’s protagonist, Simon, is a sometime drag artist and online sex worker whose key relationships are strained: his love interest, Ryan, hoping to become a policeman, has mixed feelings about the…

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang warned that not enough is being done to prepare for artificial intelligence (AI), particularly for its impact on the labor market, which he said could cause massive job losses.  While speaking to Fox News Digital this week, Yang emphasized that there are going to be “dramatic changes” that will come with AI and that the institutions around the country are not prepared for the upcoming shift.  “When I was running for president in 2020, I was talking about…

There’s a half smile that flickers over the face of Andrew Scott, an involuntary wince of a thing, with lips clamped shut and those dark, dark eyes glittering with unshed tears. It’s technically a smile, but I can’t recall seeing anyone look sadder. The actor has a rare gift for peeling back the skin of a character with a single glance, drawing us into decades of kaleidoscoping pain and loss. It’s a gift that has rarely been put to better use than in Andrew Haigh’s gorgeous, shattering and deeply personal fifth feature…

I’ve lived all my life in the north of England; in Barnsley for 18 years, then Lancaster, then Barnsley briefly again, then Liverpool for a while before settling in Manchester. In my poetry, particularly my debut, physical, and now in a novel, Pity, I’ve always been interested in what role writing can play in celebrating and rethinking place; how it might illuminate silences, or cut through the radio static of assumptions. It’s an interest that was, perhaps, inevitable having a poet for a father, who always encouraged all…