Inside Look: Bethan Cullinane

We spoke to actress Bethan Cullinane about her role as Innogen in Royal Shakespeare Company’s Cymbeline. What line from Cymbeline did you look forward to saying the most on opening night? “A large Gin and tonic, please”. My second favourite was probably my first line of the second half. It’s the first time I directly speak to the audience. I walk out, disguised as a boy and say “I see a man’s life is a tedious one”. It tends to get a laugh, and after a very emotionally heavy first half it’s a nice refresher. It is a moment of…

Jenn Murray

What is a fear that you have willingly faced? I am not sure I would call this a real fear, but when I was a teenager I always thought having very short hair would be awful. Then shooting my first film I was required to bleach it every week. My hair disintegrated and after filming I had to cut it all off to a very short pixie crop hairstyle. This is a look I had feared but then when I had it, I liked it. I would never have voluntarily cut it all off and because I had no choice,…

Emily Berrington

What is something that is socially accepted or tolerated that you wish wasn’t? Passive aggressive tutting. I went to New York recently and it doesn’t exist there. People just tell you if you’re annoying them. If you could only invest all of your personal aesthetic into one room in your flat which room would you pick? How would you make it your own? My flat is open plan, which makes this easier – the main room where I cook, eat, work, exercise, watch tv, nap, entertain, watch the world go by etc. I’d keep a big open space in the…

Ophelia Lovibond

Would you rather give up your music or your film library? Oh God, what a horrendous dilemma! I reckon I’d give up my film library because I can remember more vividly and conjure more easily the stories I’ve seen than the music I’ve heard. Plus you can’t dance to The Deer Hunter the way you can to Funkadelic. What do you find incredibly boring despite knowing that it’s worthwhile? Flossing. What is a trait or surface-level characteristic that you take as an indicator of some part of a person’s character? Whether or not they like dogs. (A wide berth if…

Festival Diary: Lyndsey Marshal

We spoke to Lyndsey Marshal at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) about Trespass Against Us, in which she appears alongside Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson. From what is available to research suggests, Trespass Against Us portrays the decline of a small-time crime family. Why do you think that the symbiosis of crime and family are so often so effective at commenting on one another in film? I think a family set up can provide you with a claustrophobic, pressure-cooker environment. You can see how an act of crime reverberates within a group. And how that effects individuals members and depending…

Rose Leslie

What is something you wish took less time? I wish blow drying your own hair took less time. What subject or idea has your perspective shifted or expanded the most from because of a film? It doesn’t have to be one you worked on. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. My perspective on our universe and planet has shifted dramatically, I find it utterly compelling and fascinating. From a fan perspective, what film, television show, or album did you anticipate the most or for the longest? Bear’s Den’s newest album, Red Earth & Pouring Rain – I was longing for it to…

Amara Karan

What’s an unwritten rule of acting? Make it easy for everyone including yourself. In terms of genre, do you generally prefer a horror film or a disaster film? Both. I need variety, both in terms of what I watch and what I perform. If I had to chose right now, it would be a subsection of horror – the psychological thriller genre. Like The Silence of the Lambs. I haven’t done one of those for a while. What was the last or most recent belief that you held for a time but no longer do? I used to believe that we…