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Each week, we spend half an hour (or thereabouts) with a musician or film-maker of the moment. This series comes with footnotes …
Mark E Smith – the final interview: 'I can clear a pub when I want to'
The Fall frontman, who has died aged 60, remained combative and funny to the last. Here is his final Guardian interview, conducted in autumn 2017
Love Island's Chris and Kem: 'I mean … we’re not necessarily rappers, are we?'
Chris Hughes and Kem Cetinay’s bromance was the most popular relationship in ITV’s smash-hit reality show. They went on to have a grime hit and beef with Lethal Bizzle. How will they cash in on this talent next year?
SNL’s Kate McKinnon on playing Theresa May: ‘There are lots of things about her I find endearing’
The Ghostbusters star’s turn as Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live made her one of 2016’s breakout stars. Her latest impression? A mischievous take on the PM
Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘Who’s the best at music in my family? Everyone plays in their own sandbox’
Fresh from weeing over a crowd of people in Girls Trip, the actor offers her thoughts on the various skill sets of her family
Jamie Bell on 6 Days: 'I was terrified – they were firing guns at me'
The one-time child actor talks about box-office disasters and training to play the leader of a crack SAS team in the new thriller 6 Days, about the 1980 Iranian embassy siege
RZA: 'Martin Shkreli sold our album on eBay for $1.2m – he could have got more'
The Wu-Tang Clan rapper-producer-director boasts 16 names and plays a mean game of chess – and he’s had the last laugh over the disgraced ‘pharma-bro’
Jennifer Tilly: ‘How frightening can Chucky be? He smokes a doobie’
The star of the Child’s Play series on making the films more scary again – and what makes her a champion poker player
Shane Richie: 'Nick Knowles is a chippie who sings. I do this for a living’
Don’t lump the EastEnders star in with his light-entertainment peers. The Planet of the Apes and Paul Weller obsessive has played festivals, you know
Linda Ronstadt: 'I don’t like any of my albums'
The country music legend has won 11 Grammys, made 28 studio albums and worked with everyone from Paul Simon to Frank Zappa. She says listening to any of it now is horrifying
Wyclef Jean: 'Changing the world and having sex – I believe in both'
It’s a year ending in seven, so the one-time Fugee must be releasing an album. While out jogging, he contemplates the great beyond – and how he inspired Beyoncé
Randy Newman: 'I would never not play You've Got a Friend in Me'
The singer is back with his first album in nine years, complete with songs about Putin and medical research. But he still plays the Toy Story tear-jerkers too
Noomi Rapace: ‘Amy Winehouse was like an angel when I wasn’t in a good place’
The Swedish star of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo explains how she plans to do justice to the late singer, plus the logistics of that self-caesarian scene in Prometheus
Terminator 2's Robert Patrick: 'James Cameron said I gave him a little scare'
The actor best known for playing the terrifying T-1000 discusses freaking out directors, hanging with Arnie and the influence of kabuki theatre on his acting
Freema Agyeman: ‘Bradley Walsh is Doctor Who’s new assistant? He’ll be brilliant’
The actor spent two series in the Tardis, played a lawyer in Law & Order, and is now in a vampire caper. Which might explain the home blood-testing kits …
Sharknado 5’s Tara Reid: ‘It can get abusive. There’s a lot of bullying’
The American Pie star has battled both online trolls and shark-based extreme weather events. But through it all, she still knows how to tell Jedward apart
Bryan Cranston: ‘I would go to malls, sit near arguing couples and watch them’
The Breaking Bad star’s new film Wakefield is a study of a man who vanishes, only to spy on his grieving family. Would his years of pre-fame voyeurism come in handy?
will.i.am: ‘We live in a world where destroying people and their dreams is a business’
The rapper, TV talent-show judge and serial tech entrepreneur talks about the finale of The Voice Kids – and why terrible reviews don’t matter
Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl: ‘I got 6,000 muffins from Lionel Richie after missing Glastonbury’
When a broken leg scuppered the Nirvana legend’s plans to headline the Pyramid stage in 2015, his only consolation was a present from a pop hero. But now, the Foos are ready to finally hit Worthy Farm
The Damned's Rat Scabies: 'We were self-destructive – every time we made it, we did something daft'
The punk legend and Damned drummer also known as Chris Millar on his love of eBay, his hunt for the holy grail and that time he fell through a trap door
Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels: 'We lived sex, drugs and rock‘n‘roll – but never put it in our music'
One half of the remaining members of the veteran hip-hop group talks about his hedonistic past, his present passion for comic books and Pink Floyd
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