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Jan 13, 2025 | 
everand.com | Adam White
The way a room full of New York film critics acted in December 1998, you’d assume Cameron Diaz had collected her shock Best Actress prize while burping and farting her way up to the podium.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
everand.com | Adam White
Before he bossed her about and fed her dog biscuits, Harris Dickinson didn’t know much about Nicole Kidman. He knew her films, of course, but Kidman herself – the woman behind all that cryptic, porcelain, slightly alien elegance – seemed a bit removed on the set of their BDSM drama Babygirl. “We didn’t talk a load,” Dickinson says, lying prone across a hotel-room sofa. “We talked a lot about the characters we were playing.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
m.independent.ie | Adam White
For two whole minutes, the 2025 Golden Globes were glamorous and surprising. Demi Moore (62) wafted on stage to collect her Best Actress award for the gonzo horror movie The Substance and spoke eloquently and emotionally about her fears, her self-doubt, and the occasional sadness of her 1990s fame. Then the Globes went back to being unexciting and, basically, the Oscars.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
everand.com | Adam White
Sean Patrick Thomas, teen movie king of the late Nineties and early Noughties, is showing me an object far more impressive than any Oscar or Grammy: his MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss. “It’s right here!” the actor beams, after scurrying off camera to grab it. He’s in what he terms his “man cave”, the award stuffed beneath his big-screen TV and near his gym equipment. Thomas holds the popcorn bucket-shaped trophy up to his camera lens. It is, I tell him, almost stupidly large.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
everand.com | Adam White
No one has ever loved dress-up quite like Gwen Stefani. As the frontwoman of the pop-ska-punk band No Doubt, she was a day-glo Debbie Harry, sporting bindis, adult braces and layers of concert sweat. Once she went solo, she was a David LaChapelle portrait come to life – a hyper-real yodeller and pop queen who rapped about bananas alongside a troupe of giggling Japanese back-up dancers whose inclusion raised more than a few eyebrows.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
everand.com | Adam White
It’s an unseasonably warm October day in London, and Eddie Redmayne is gazing out of the window. I’m worried he wants to jump out of it solely to get away from this conversation. “I suppose,” the actor stutters, “as any human would, you take each moment, each criticism, each interrogation, each, um... err...” He pauses. “Each opinion piece... um. Everyone’s voices...” He starts again.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
everand.com | Adam White
Most movie stars can survive a flop or two. But then there are roles that completely upend an actor’s career, leaving them out of work or forever changed in the eye of the public. It’s not really possible to talk about Faye Dunaway’s career without mentioning her notorious performance in Mommie Dearest, for instance.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
everand.com | Adam White
Tim Burton has a type. She is lily-white and willowy, with blood-red lips and oversized eyes the shape of almonds. She is, inevitably, covered in cobwebs. This woman – a corpse bride, you might say – is all over The Design Museum’s blockbuster Burton exhibition, drawn across the decades in sketchbooks and on hotel stationery, on napkins and in tear-away notepads. It becomes its own running joke.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
everand.com | Adam White
Anna Kendrick knows what was missing. “In the parlance of the internet, I think I was known as sort of quirky and relatable,” she tells me. She says those last two words with deliberately exaggerated theatre-kid pep, a cheesy grin falling on the right side of annoying. If only just. “But in that, there’s not a lot of room for sadness and fear.”It’s disorienting to see Anna Kendrick sad. It’s a bit like seeing a friend in tears, or an injured puppy with a plastic cone around its head.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
everand.com | Adam White
Everyone remembers the first time . Mine was , Channel 4’s mid-Noughties teen lesbian drama starring Lenora Crichlow and a pre-fame Andrew Garfield. When it was cancelled in 2006, allegedly due to Channel 4 having to offset the £180m they’d paid for the rights to four more years of , I was furious. I’m sure I made regrettable posts about Jade Goody and Brian Dowling on the forums. That said, I was also about 14, and grieving the abrupt end of a TV show is a modern rite of passage.
