The Picture Journal

Fady Elsayed

How do you distract yourself when you are procrastinating a task or chore of some kind? There are too many distractions! Music, Playstation, going to the gym, reading and sleeping being a few examples. What part of aspect/ event of modern culture/ civilization are you most happy you were alive for? A tricky question but I’d probably have to say equality. We live in a society where equality is becoming more of a forefront idea and although there’s more to be done, we’ve made huge progress. I have some strong women in my life and so for me, it’s incredibly…

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Jim Sturgess

If you could somehow give the 12 year old version of yourself a book to read, a film to watch, and an album to listen to – presumably to make yourself cooler or more knowledgeable at an earlier age – what would you gift? That’s a hard question as I feel that whatever you are reading, listening to, or discovering at the time is the right thing for you at that moment. The discovery of these things as you go through life are what make you who you are… so I’d be nervous to interfere with that. I didn’t really…

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Tom Riley

If you could pick one piece of technology or art to have come out 10 years earlier in your life or 10 years later, what would you pick? The iPhone. And a decade later. I just would have liked ten more years to actually take in the world around me. Eggplant emoji, winky face. What is the most interesting conversation you’ve had with someone whom you never talked to again? I’m not sure about the most interesting, but the conversation that stayed with me the most was when I was shooting a neurosurgery show called Monroe a few years ago.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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