Poppy Corby-Tuech

What’s your favorite film character entrance or introduction of all time? The goat is gone, the glass of water is shaking, the kids are panicking, Jeff Goldblum is being Jeff Goldblum and the idiotic lawyer p**s off to the bathroom (“When you gotta go you gotta go”), only to be devoured moments later – trousers around his ankles – by the glorious T-Rex. What an entrance. In fact, that toilet scene in Jurassic Park inspired me to write a song when I was ten called Man on the Bog; a tragic retelling of this story as seen from the T-Rex’s…

Anna Brewster

Do you still consider a particular place ‘home’? To be honest no, I travel so much so it’s rare for me to be in one place for more than a couple of weeks. I split my time between London and Paris and I love both cities for different reasons, but I find it hard to stay in one place for too long. I think the place I feel most at home is with my family, that’s where you can truly relax and feel safe and I guess that’s the definition of ‘home’. If you could send a 2 x 2…

Freya Mavor

Describe one of your favorite actors without naming a character or a film. Vincent Cassel. I think I could watch him hoovering his house and I would find it fascinating. What is something you’d like learn how to build, if time, difficulty and resources were no longer obstacles? A giant badass pirate ship I could sail around the world on with my friends. Would you rather have the ability to make your clothes feel like they are always fresh from the dryer or your bedsheets? Clothes. I cycle most places so I usually turn up looking like a bit of…

Amy Wren

You recently played a lead in the TV series Tutankhamun. If you could pick any one aspect of ancient history/ culture/ lore to know everything about, what or who would you pick? I was obsessed with Greek gods and goddesses when I was at school, but can’t really remember any of it now. So I would choose that to be my fountain of knowledge. What is something you would only do in preparation for a scene that you would never do in your personal life? It makes me laugh now when I think about it but when you have a…

Andrea Riseborough

You’ll be appearing soon as Svetlana Stalin – Joseph Stalin’s only daughter – in Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin. This will be one of Ianucci’s first projects not only using a real contextual setting but also ‘real’ historical figures. What can you share about the way this project (and you through your character) approached the balance of reality and creative license? I watched the moving images of Svetlana available, read one book in particular, Rosemary Sullivan’s Stalin’s Daughter, which was comprehensive. And used all the stills of her available. Then made an effort to forget it all and embrace…

Ruth Bradley

You’ve recently appeared in Humans, the highly acclaimed television series depicting a contemporary world with sophisticated android (Synth) servants. If in real life robots took over, how would you make yourself useful to our automated overlords? I would write some poetry. The ramblings of a lesser being might be amusing to them considering they wouldn’t have much else use for us. Scary prospect. Where is your favorite place or type of place to people-watch? Coffee shops all over London. What science fiction film did you find the most ‘realistic’ either in terms of the basic concept or the depiction of…

Morfydd Clark

You’ll soon be appearing in Interlude in Prague about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Discounting Mozart, which child prodigy do you find most fascinating? Rimanujan or William Gadoury, the 15-year-old Canadian boy who discovered a lost Mayan city using Google Maps. Describe your taste in music by way of a film soundtrack. Thelma and Louise Cast your favourite Shakespeare play with a contemporary cast/ director. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Puck – Patsy Ferran Oberon/ Theseus – Idris Elba Titania/ Hippolyta – Hayley Atwell Helena – Lydia Leonard Hermia – Anna Kendrick Demetrius – Simon Manyonda Lysander – Sope Dirisu Bottom – Michael…