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.

Cate Blanchett: ‘I think my natural state is to dig a little hole underground and burrow in for the winter’
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Cate Blanchett on her wild new film: ‘I can’t talk about the monkey brains – I signed an NDA’

The Australian Oscar winner has collaborated with the filmmaker Guy Maddin on ‘Rumours’, a satirical horror comedy about politicians lost in the woods. They speak to Adam White about stupidity, retirement and why ‘the big elephant in the room is overpopulation’

<p>‘I did quite a lot of weapons prep, but I didn’t delve into the dark web and try to find an expensive assassin’ </p>
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Eddie Redmayne: ‘It’s rare for me to read a bad review of my work and think they got it wrong’

The Oscar-winning star of ‘The Theory of Everything’, ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and (gulp) ‘The Danish Girl’ is playing a hitman-for-hire in his new TV adaptation of ‘The Day of the Jackal’. He speaks to Adam White about famous friends, weathering backlash, and why the acting industry is ‘deeply unhealthy’

Interview

Eddie Redmayne: ‘It’s rare for me to read a bad review of my work and think they got it wrong’

The Oscar-winning star of ‘The Theory of Everything’, ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and (gulp) ‘The Danish Girl’ is playing a hitman-for-hire in his new TV adaptation of ‘The Day of the Jackal’. He speaks to Adam White about famous friends, weathering backlash, and why the acting industry is ‘deeply unhealthy’

<p>‘I did quite a lot of weapons prep, but I didn’t delve into the dark web and try to find an expensive assassin’ </p>
<p>‘I cared too much about people not liking me. If you’ve got balls of steel, you just push on through’ </p>
Interview

Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson: ‘We were an acceptable punching bag’

As the chart-topping indie rock band behind ‘Ruby’ and ‘I Predict a Riot’ release their eighth album, their frontman speaks to Adam White about backlash, hurtful jokes, and his worry that they’d be ‘remembered as mid-Noughties also-rans’

Interview

Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson: ‘We were an acceptable punching bag’

As the chart-topping indie rock band behind ‘Ruby’ and ‘I Predict a Riot’ release their eighth album, their frontman speaks to Adam White about backlash, hurtful jokes, and his worry that they’d be ‘remembered as mid-Noughties also-rans’

<p>‘I cared too much about people not liking me. If you’ve got balls of steel, you just push on through’ </p>
<p>The cast that deserved better: the stars of ‘And Just Like That...’ </p>

And Just Like That... is the worst show on television

*SPOILERS!* Kim Cattrall’s much-hyped cameo on the ‘Sex and the City’ revival was both bitterly disappointing and a glorious reprieve from an increasingly shoddy series, writes Adam White. How did this once-promising sequel go so awry?

And Just Like That... is the worst show on television

*SPOILERS!* Kim Cattrall’s much-hyped cameo on the ‘Sex and the City’ revival was both bitterly disappointing and a glorious reprieve from an increasingly shoddy series, writes Adam White. How did this once-promising sequel go so awry?

<p>The cast that deserved better: the stars of ‘And Just Like That...’ </p>
<p>Ramy Youssef: ‘The representation that I care about is emotional representation’</p>
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Ramy Youssef: ‘There’s no, “Yo, Muslims, here’s your show”’

The co-creator and star of ‘Ramy’ talks to Adam White about his semi-autobiographical comedy, why it’s not intended to cater to one ‘collective Muslim community’, getting stuck in acting purgatory, and why so many talented people of colour have to write vehicles for themselves to make it

Interview

Ramy Youssef: ‘There’s no, “Yo, Muslims, here’s your show”’

The co-creator and star of ‘Ramy’ talks to Adam White about his semi-autobiographical comedy, why it’s not intended to cater to one ‘collective Muslim community’, getting stuck in acting purgatory, and why so many talented people of colour have to write vehicles for themselves to make it

<p>Ramy Youssef: ‘The representation that I care about is emotional representation’</p>
‘I don’t mean to get high and mighty about it but art has a responsibility to push the envelope and push boundaries and deal with difficult subjects’
Interview

Kevin Bacon: ‘I think of myself as an actor, and not a movie star’

He’s been a movie mainstay since the Eighties but has always evaded celebrity, instead gravitating towards grisly characters other actors wouldn’t dream of touching. Adam White meets a true Hollywood original

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Kevin Bacon: ‘I think of myself as an actor, and not a movie star’

He’s been a movie mainstay since the Eighties but has always evaded celebrity, instead gravitating towards grisly characters other actors wouldn’t dream of touching. Adam White meets a true Hollywood original

‘I don’t mean to get high and mighty about it but art has a responsibility to push the envelope and push boundaries and deal with difficult subjects’

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