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After the opening night of the hit play Prima Facie in London in 2022, a young female producer came up to playwright Suzie Miller and said, “Loved the play. I’m one in three,” a line from the script referring to the number of women who are sexually assaulted in the UK. “She didn’t have to say ‘I was raped,’” Miller recalls. “It was this moment where I thought, ‘Oh, you can say that now.’”“The hardest thing is for a woman to say ‘I was raped,’” adds Jodie Comer, whose solo performance as the young defence lawyer forced to…

British actor Jodie Turner-Smith has opened up about her split from Canadian actor Joshua Jackson. CNN reported that the `Queen & Slim` star said to The Times in an interview that "Sometimes things we want to work just don`t end up working." "And that`s OK. The most important thing is that you choose what`s healthiest for you and your family and your children." The pair separated last year after getting married in 2019. Turner-Smith filed for divorce in October 2023. They have a three-year-old daughter, Juno Jackson,…

Appropriately enough, Meet Me at the Surface, an electrifying debut from Manchester-based but Cornish-born Jodie Matthews, dives deep. Heavily influenced by her place of birth, and in particular its folklore, the author plunges us into a twilight world of whispered secrets and otherworldly goings-on. Characters – some human, some quite possibly not – rise to the surface of the narrative then fall beneath, their shifting motives always remaining tantalisingly out of reach. Above all hovers the enigmatic Pedri – a strange…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNatalie Portman has recalled having an “amazing” chat with Jodie Foster about being sexualised as child stars.Portman, now 42, was only 12 when she landed her first feature film credit in the 1994 action-thriller Léon the Professional. Meanwhile, Foster, now 61, was 14 when she landed her first Oscar nomination for her role as a teenage prostitute in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi…

Acclaimed actress-filmmaker Jodie Foster finds it is "cool" that there`s been 47 years between her first Oscar nomination for `Taxi Driver` and her most recent for `Nyad`. The 61-year-old actress was recently shortlisted for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role accolade for her work on `Nyad,` an biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad`s multiple attempts in the early 2010s to swim the Straits of Florida, with flashbacks to her early life. Jodie, whose first nomination was for `Taxi Driver` in 1976,…

I used to knock on people’s doors and tell them the end of the world was coming. We were born imperfect, I would say, and soon will come the day of Armageddon when we will all be tested. Be good and you could win life in Paradise. Be bad, and your reward is annihilation. No wonder people would see us coming and turn off the lights.Stories have always been in my blood. Until a few years ago, I based my life on their outcome. Raised in the UK as a Jehovah’s Witness, I was told we were in “the time of the end”, which meant…

The Silence of the Lambs is one of the best horror movies of all time, and Anthony Hopkins’ performance as Hannibal Lector still makes our skin crawl to this day. Many of his scenes are, of course, opposite Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling, the FBI agent sent to interview Lector as a way of helping a different case. The actors' exchanges are electric, with their first meeting remaining an iconic moment in cinema, and despite the fact that it’s been 30 years since they worked together, Hopkins still fondly remembers…

When her waters break, life changes for ever for the heavily pregnant unnamed Woman (a phenomenal Jodie Comer) at the heart of Mahalia Belo’s superb feature debut The End We Start From. The onset of labour coincides, almost to the moment, with a national disaster, the catastrophic breaching of London’s flood defences, which leaves the capital and much of the rest of the country submerged and uninhabitable. As supply chains disintegrate, civilisation starts to collapse into a snarling, semi-feral competition for…

Jodie Foster, the acclaimed actress known for her iconic roles, including “Silence of the Lambs,” recently shared insights into her parenting choices, aiming to give her sons as normal a life as possible despite her celebrity status. During an appearance on “The View,” Foster disclosed that she intentionally kept her acting career hidden from her now-adult sons during their younger years. The 61-year-old Oscar-winning actress expressed a desire for her children to see her primarily as their…

It’s always been pretty obvious that George Lucas made Star Wars up as he went along. Come on, Luke starts out as a wide-eyed farm boy and ends up as a dead-eyed Jedi. Darth Vader begins as a shiny black death cyborg villain and somehow winds up as Luke’s dear old wet-eyed dad. Let’s not even mention Leia going from love interest to sibling, because if it hadn’t been for the Force, this might have been the weirdest movie since Close My Eyes.All of which makes the revelation that Jodie Foster was once offered the role of…