Adam White

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Adam White is features editor across Culture and Lifestyle at The Independent, where he writes and commissions features, essays and interviews. His work has also been published in Dazed, Huck, i-D, Playboy, The Telegraph, The i, Little White Lies, The Quietus and Nylon.

<p>‘Comedy is their love language’: Harper Steele and Will Ferrell, the stars of the new Netflix documentary ‘Will & Harper’ </p>
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Will Ferrell: ‘I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me’

The ‘Elf’ star and the comedy writer Harper Steele have made a documentary about their 30-year friendship – and how it evolved after Harper came out as trans at the age of 61. Adam White meets them, and their director Josh Greenbaum

<p>‘I haven’t played the quote-unquote ‘leading lady’ in a very long time. And I appreciate it more the second time around'</p>
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Carol Kane: ‘In comedy, you have a little more leeway with your looks’

The celebrated character actor – who has appeared in everything from ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and ‘Annie Hall’ to ‘The Princess Bride’ and ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ – speaks to Adam White about her first starring role in years, how she befriended Bette Davis in the Eighties, and staying in touch with Jack Nicholson

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Carol Kane: ‘In comedy, you have a little more leeway with your looks’

The celebrated character actor – who has appeared in everything from ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and ‘Annie Hall’ to ‘The Princess Bride’ and ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ – speaks to Adam White about her first starring role in years, how she befriended Bette Davis in the Eighties, and staying in touch with Jack Nicholson

<p>‘I haven’t played the quote-unquote ‘leading lady’ in a very long time. And I appreciate it more the second time around'</p>
<p>‘I’m pretty good at just blocking any of the noise associated with whatever fandom is – not letting it affect me, or more importantly my family’ </p>
Interview

Jamie Dornan on The Tourist, Marvel rumours and his Fifty Shades stalker

As he returns as a haunted amnesiac in BBC One’s ‘The Tourist’, the Irish actor speaks to Adam White about fame and fandom, the behind-the-scenes ‘breakage’ that spoilt ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, and why that third series of ‘The Fall’ was probably a mistake

Interview

Jamie Dornan on The Tourist, Marvel rumours and his Fifty Shades stalker

As he returns as a haunted amnesiac in BBC One’s ‘The Tourist’, the Irish actor speaks to Adam White about fame and fandom, the behind-the-scenes ‘breakage’ that spoilt ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, and why that third series of ‘The Fall’ was probably a mistake

<p>‘I’m pretty good at just blocking any of the noise associated with whatever fandom is – not letting it affect me, or more importantly my family’ </p>
<p>Lucy Punch: ‘I’ve always liked people just verging on the grotesque. Not to be friends with, of course, but just to observe’ </p>
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Lucy Punch: ‘I moved to the US as I kept getting cast as posh idiots’

The ‘Motherland’ star has always found hilarity in the moneyed and horrible. As she faces the end of the world in the dark comedy ‘Silent Night’, she speaks to Adam White about being drawn to the grotesque, the controversy over voicing Kate Middleton, and the perils of knowing too much about your colleagues

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Lucy Punch: ‘I moved to the US as I kept getting cast as posh idiots’

The ‘Motherland’ star has always found hilarity in the moneyed and horrible. As she faces the end of the world in the dark comedy ‘Silent Night’, she speaks to Adam White about being drawn to the grotesque, the controversy over voicing Kate Middleton, and the perils of knowing too much about your colleagues

<p>Lucy Punch: ‘I’ve always liked people just verging on the grotesque. Not to be friends with, of course, but just to observe’ </p>
Mythic Quest’s F Murray Abraham: ‘After Amadeus, I became known as a “heavy”, but I’ve always preferred to make people laugh’
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F Murray Abraham: ‘I was a pain in the ass, but I’m wonderful now’

For years, the Oscar-winning star of Amadeus and Scarface had an abrasive reputation. But today he’s 81 and full of fun. ‘I was probably insufferable,’ he tells Adam White, as he plays it for laughs on Apple TV+’s workplace comedy Mythic Quest

Interview

F Murray Abraham: ‘I was a pain in the ass, but I’m wonderful now’

For years, the Oscar-winning star of Amadeus and Scarface had an abrasive reputation. But today he’s 81 and full of fun. ‘I was probably insufferable,’ he tells Adam White, as he plays it for laughs on Apple TV+’s workplace comedy Mythic Quest

Mythic Quest’s F Murray Abraham: ‘After Amadeus, I became known as a “heavy”, but I’ve always preferred to make people laugh’

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