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  1. in conversation
    The One and Only Benedict WongSpy. Scientist. Sorcerer Supreme. Finally, with 3 Body Problem, the actor plays someone like himself.
    By Nicholas Quah
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    Made for Jessica LangeHer haunting role in Mother Play, like so much of her work, is one only she could perform.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Michael Mann’s Decadeslong Drive to Make FerrariThe director on his inspiration rooms, clubbing with cocaine importers, and the obsessive research that went into his new movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Todd Haynes Plays the SuperegoThe director is interested in people constrained by society’s rules. In his new film May December, he makes it harder to root for the rule-breakers.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
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    Tracey Emin Is SeriousThe artist has always worked in the confessional mode. After surviving cancer, she sees no reason to hold anything back.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Bernie Taupin Is Still StandingHe imagined the yellow brick roads and rocket men that helped make Elton John famous. He thinks there’s more to come.
    By Jim Farber
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    ‘I Can Do Things to You With My Voice’Fifty-one years of acting. Hundreds of roles. One Samuel L. Jackson.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    50 Cent Has Stories to SellEvery record label once wanted what he had (and was afraid of it). Now all of Hollywood wants it too.
    By Carvell Wallace
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    The Ecstasy of Karen OThe Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer will give in to her urges, so long as she’s onstage.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Larry Wilmore Knows No BoundsHe’s kept the golden age of Black TV comedy alive for three decades. He’ll make any network eat its words.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
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    Laura Linney Resists InterpretationThe actress lives for the stage, loves film crews, and treasures her co-stars. Just don’t ask her about the ending of Ozark.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Melanie Lynskey Felt Like a Hollywood MisfitAfter debuting at 17, the actress was lost in the industry. “I kept getting reminded I was not the things you needed to be.”
    By E. Alex Jung
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    John C. Reilly Thinks Audiences Just Want to Be SurprisedHe’d do (almost) anything to oblige.
    By Lane Brown
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    Peter Bogdanovich on His Masterpieces, Womanizing, and Deaths He Didn’t MournA candid conversation with the late director who’s often held up as a cautionary tale of Hollywood arrogance.
    By Andrew Goldman
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    Dave Grohl Has Seen Too MuchHe’s the most prolific rock star of the last 30 years. Somehow, we’re still getting to know him.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Norm Macdonald, in Conversation“I’d always learned that concealing everything was art. And I still believe that.”
    By David Marchese
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    Eric Bana Is a Character Actor at HeartThe Australian stand-up turned dramatic Hollywood actor can’t help but still see the world in sketches and bits.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Alison Bechdel Works Out Her IssuesIn her latest book, the graphic memoirist examines her relationship to exercise and, in turn, herself.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Mads Mikkelsen Takes Everything and Nothing SeriouslyIt’s always like, “Here’s your cola, Master Mads,” or “Get your fucking Coke, and get out of my shop.” There’s no neutral Coca-Cola anymore.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Daniel Dae Kim Still Believes Hollywood Can Be Reformed“If you’re not aware of politics in any industry, you’re missing all of the ways to navigate it.”
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Francis Ford Coppola Is Still Going for BrokeHis recut of The Godfather: Part III is one of his most personal projects yet, but it’s far from his last.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In Conversation: Whoopi GoldbergFrom her Oscar win to getting iced out of Hollywood, Whoopi has never lost sight of herself.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Laurence Fishburne Knows Who He IsWith his much-anticipated return to Broadway postponed until next year, one of America’s most accomplished actors reflects on his career.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Thandie Newton Is Finally Ready to Speak Her MindAfter decades onscreen, nothing surprises the Westworld actress, though what she’s ready to share will surprise you.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Joel Schumacher on His Colleagues, His Critics, and His Sex LifeAfter five decades in Hollywood, the late director had plenty of stories — but he wasn’t one to kiss and tell.
    By Andrew Goldman
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    Hayley Williams on What Went Wrong With Paramore and Her New Solo Life“If we didn’t have all that stupid fucking drama for all those years, would people even know who we are anymore?”
    By Eve Barlow
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    Mary Harron on the Bizarre Legacy of American Psycho20 years on, the director discusses almost losing the movie, fighting to cast Christian Bale, and why its original reception reminds her of Joker’s.
    By Lila Shapiro
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    Ellen Burstyn Talks Her Dogs, Cosmology, and Co-hosting Inside the Actors StudioIn conversation with the legend of stage and screen.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  29. who were the 2010s?
    Margaret Atwood on the Decade The Handmaid’s Tale Came to LifeHer novels speculated about lab-grown meat, environmental catastrophe, and the diminishment of reproductive autonomy. Does anything shock her anymore?
    By Molly Young
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    Diablo Cody on the Rise of the Fempire and Writing an Alanis Morissette Musical“I now regret not having been a theater kid my entire life,” she jokes.
    By Genevieve Smith
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    Gilbert Gottfried on Smutty Hollywood Gossip and the Value of Offensive HumorIn conversation with the man who’s been called “the ultimate comedian’s comedian.”
    By Andrew Goldman
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    Liz Phair on Being Misunderstood, Ryan Adams, and the Dawn of Girlville“My theory was, if I say the dirtiest things in the world, but like a little girl, will anyone actually hear it? That was the game I was playing.”
    By Rob Tannenbaum
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    John Waters on Anna Wintour, Staying Youthful, and Why Trump Ruined Camp“You gotta have youth spies. Even after 30, you need a youth spy. You need ’em!”
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Lee Daniels on the End of Empire, Woke Culture, and Why Precious Was a ComedyPrecisely what his post-Empire career will look like isn’t certain, but the perennially restless director is nurturing a number of seedlings.
    By Andrew Goldman
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    Anjelica Huston on Growing Up, and Growing Older, in Hollywood“I always thought how great it would be to be a woman of leisure. But I have to work.”
    By Andrew Goldman
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    Catherine O’Hara on Her Career, Sexism in Comedy, and Her Favorite Impressions“I’ve been allowed to create my own characters and do my own writing and improvise and just create in such a free way,” says the Schitt’s Creek star.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    Paul Schrader on First Reformed, His Oscar Hopes, and the End of the World“Being an outlier has worked for me, and it’s one of the reasons I have a bookcase full of lifetime-achievement awards, and very few actual awards.”
    By Mark Jacobson
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    M. Night Shyamalan on His Failures, His Successes, and GlassFirst, the director started making movies people liked again. Now he has his own superhero universe.
    By Adam Sternbergh
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    Alex Trebek on Retirement, His Legacy, and Why Knowledge Matters“It’s a good show,” says the Jeopardy host. “It should, and will, go on after I’m done.”
    By David Marchese
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    Adam Driver on His Most Important Work and Why He’s Not Actually ‘Intense’“I don’t take doing a play or making a movie for granted: We’re here, right now, and we’re never going to get a chance to do this again.”
    By David Marchese
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    Peter Dinklage on the Weirdness of Fame and the Fate of Tyrion Lannister“As an actor, the best you can do is try to bring some honesty into your parts and hope people will follow,” says the star of My Dinner With Hervé.
    By David Marchese
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    Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Kindergarten Teacher and Storytelling Through Sex“I’m not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I’m interested in showing what it actually looks like.”
    By David Marchese
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    Emma Thompson on Her New Films and the Lies Women Are Told“I don’t think,” says the star of the upcoming The Children Act and King Lear, “that I have ever enjoyed being alive as much as I do now.”
    By David Marchese
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    Penn Jillette on Magic and the Alleged Trump Celebrity Apprentice Tapes“I want those tapes to be used against him [Trump], but it might be unfair.”
    By David Marchese
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    Kathleen Turner on Trump’s ‘Gross’ Handshake and the Co-Star She SlappedIf a man comes on set and says, “Here’s how I see this being done,” people go, “He’s decisive.” If a woman does it, they say, “There she goes.”
    By David Marchese
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    Billy Joel on His Songwriting Silence, the Country Today, and His Ideal Farewell“I never felt like I was as good as I wanted to be. My bar was Beethoven.”
    By David Marchese
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on What It Means to Be a ‘Feminist Icon’“I want to tell the truth. That’s where my storytelling comes from. My feminism comes from somewhere else: acute dissatisfaction.”
    By David Marchese
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    David Lynch on His Memoir Room to Dream and Clues to His Films“People are detectives and we have life to find clues about in the same way we would with a piece of cinema.”
    By David Marchese
  49. Jeff Goldblum on Becoming a Sex Symbol and Learning to Play Himself“People write Jeff Goldblum-y parts and they want me to do them and that’s fine. I think I can even do a better version of it.”
    By David Marchese
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    Conan O’Brien on the Future of Conan, the Tonight Show Mess, and Boring Guests“I’m the last man with a pompadour. Don’t I get comedy points for that?”
    By David Marchese
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