It doesn’t matter how familiar you might be with Alice Walker’s seminal novel, The Color Purple; its 1985 film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg; or even the Broadway show, because …
At 21 years old, Talia Ryder may still be a fresh face in Hollywood, but the actor and trained dancer has been working since she landed a role on Broadway’s …
Anyone who’s ever loved a grade A narcissist will immediately recognize that person in Franz Rogowski’s Passages character, Tomas. In the film, directed by Ira Sachs, the German actor gives …
Barry Keoghan was just as shocked by the Saltburn script as many viewers were by the final film. “Some of it is jaw-dropping when you read it,” he tells W’s …
When Jeffrey Wright first received the script for American Fiction, screenwriter-director Cord Jefferson’s film based on the novel Erasure, by Percival Everett, there was a note attached from Jefferson. “He …
In director Roger Ross Williams’s Cassandro, Gael García Bernal takes on the titular role of the real-life luchador who changed the face of Mexican wrestling. Born Saúl Armendáriz in El …
It’s easy to forget now, as Margaret Qualley is busy collecting Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her acting work, but the 29-year-old actually started her career as a dancer, …
It’s been 17 years since Zac Efron first sang, danced, and dribbled his way into the hearts of a generation as the basketball star Troy Bolton in the High School …
At this point, it’s impossible to imagine anyone but Margot Robbie bringing the world’s most famous doll to life in Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar-plus box-office sensation, Barbie. Robbie’s wide-eyed, wildly funny …
Robert Downey Jr. first heard about the film Oppenheimer—an exploration of the creation of the atomic bomb, which broke box-office records when it premiered in July—straight from the mouth of …