Interviews

Time of Our Lives

The new 'secret life of us'

The history between actors Claudia Karvan and Justine Clarke is strong and sweet. As the pair prepare to appear on television together, Brigid Delaney finds out what makes their friendship tick.

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Getting Wiigy with it

CLEM BASTOW Kristen Wiig is no longer the bridesmaid. She heads a new female troupe of comedy stars who are wielding serious clout in Hollywood.

Q&A with Portia de Rossi

De Rossi speaks about the new season of Arrested Development, and why she thinks coming out isn't as scary today.

Interview: Fred Armisen

Paul Kalina Paul Kalina chats with the man behind cult hipster comedy series Portlandia.

Update on Femen activist Amina

NATALIE REILLY The 19-year-old, who posted topless photos of herself on Facebook, talks about the seriousness of her ordeal and her determination to keep going.

Satirical sense and sensibility

STEVE DOW Even the small things in life are enthralling when David Sedaris writes about them.

Tracy Morgan interview

Craig Mathieson The 30 Rock star is headed down under for his stand up tour. Prepare to be offended, Australia.

Brienne the Beauty

Interview with Game of Thrones Star

NICK MILLER Gwendoline Christie has a laugh bigger than her 1.92 metre frame. It seems incredible that when she was cast as a warrior-knight the equal of any man this triggered a rush of insecurity. But, she says, it did.

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Steve Carell interview

Michael Lallo He's been called Hollywood's most reliable comic performer, but the Burt Wonderstone star is also one of its most normal.

Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz interview

CLEM BASTOW Clem Bastow meets Rachel Weisz and is left wondering how anyone in their right mind could describe the actress as "aloof".

Graham Norton interview

Nathan Olivieri Norton shares his opinion on Marco Pierre White ("he kind of scared and appalled me") and discusses the type of guest he dreads having on his talk show.

Interview: Louis C.K.

ANDREW MURFETT Comedian Louis C.K. talks to The Age's Andrew Murfett about the joy of going unnoticed in Melbourne, creative control, and why fans of Louie will have to wait until 2014.

Lena Dunham interview

Nothing's sacred for girls on film

Tiffany Bakker Unsurprisingly, Lena Dunham is verbose, engaging and whip-smart in person. And, with her more put-together clothes and precise make-up, she's a more polished version of her alter ego.

Interview: Helen Mirren

Stephanie Bunbury Stephanie Bunbury chats with Helen Mirren about her role in the new Hitchcock film. Added bonus: the wonderful video where a 30-year old Mirren puts a sexist Michael Parkinson in his place.

A candid chat with Allison Williams from 'Girls'

The 25-year-old Yale graduate who plays the character described as "a younger, ill-at-ease version of Sex and the City’s Charlotte York", has enjoyed a swift rise to acclaim since appearing on the Lena Dunham-created series.

Interview: Elizabeth Olsen

Clementine Bastow "I never understood why someone would seek fame out, because I find it to be scary, that lack of privacy."

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Interview: Sarah Silverman

Bernard Zuel Sarah Silverman, who is happy to be known as one of the most offensive women in comedy, thinks it is riskier to talk about politics in the US than it is to talk about racism or anal sex.

Woody Allen doesn't like his own movies

Of course he doesn't. He's one of the most self-deprecating people on the planet, as this interview prooves.

Meet the edgier Nicole Kidman

Nick Miller Nicole Kidman shot graphic sex scenes with John Cusack, urinated on Zac Efron and had ‘telepathic sex’ with a prison inmate in new film The Paperboy. She chats with Nick Miller about unleashing her wild side on film.

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Moonshine and vanity

Philippa Hawker Philippa Hawker chats with Guy Pearce about shaving off his eyebrows for his new film Lawless and working with Nick Cave again.

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Nicole Kidman chats about her return to television

Nicole Kidman hasn't worked in TV since the 1989 mini-series, Bangkok Hilton. It took a project like Hemingway & Gellhorn to get her back to the small screen.

Interview: Ben Affleck

Drew Turney His own family was fractured by his father's alcoholism, but Ben Affleck is determined to be the ideal dad.

Interview: Olivia Munn

After nearly a decade of slowly and steadily rising in Hollywood, Olivia Munn is finding success on big and small screens with TV drama The Newsroom and Steven Soderbergh's movie Magic Mike.

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