Ben Barna

3 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ben Barna

Black Mirror creator and professional pessimist Charlie Brooker has turned our collective anxieties into prestige television, conjuring dystopian futures that always feel just a few doom-scrolls away. Through his hit Netflix show, which released its seventh season earlier this month, the former journalist and cartoonist has skewered everything from surveillance states to social media apps—A Twilight Zone for our tech-addled nightmare.

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ben Barna |Jake Nevins

The White Lotus isn’t known for giving viewers characters they can root for, but Tayme Thapthimthong’s hopelessly smitten security guard Gaitok is an exception. In the HBO show’s third season, which ends this Sunday, the Thai-British newcomer plays the unassuming and smiley Gaitok with a vulnerability and charm that he based on the real-life hotel guards he observed growing up in Thailand while holding his own opposite seasoned actors and global pop royalty.

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jean Smart |Ben Barna

Following his breakout as a brooding aristocrat in Downton Abbey, Dan Stevens could have gone the leading man route. Instead, he has become one of the most quietly shape-shifting actors we have. Whether he’s a manic mutant in Legion, or a Tucker Carlson-esque media manipulator in the Netflix political thriller Zero Day, Stevens approaches each role with a careful abandon and refreshing lack of vanity rarely seen from actors of his statute.

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ben Barna

Publishing overlord and celebrity ringmaster Graydon Carter can’t sit still. As cofounder of Spy, longtime Vanity Fair editor, and creator of Air Mail, he’s shaped journalism, Hollywood, and high society while curating hotspots like the Waverly Inn and Monkey Bar. As he readies his memoir When the Going Was Good, Carter shares his gut reactions to today’s most pressing matters.

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ben Barna

Tramell Tillman spent years bouncing between office jobs before making the switch to acting, a career shift that ultimately led the 39-year-old D.C. native to one of the most unsettling roles on television. As Mr. Milchick, the turtlenecked supervisor on Severance, Tillman delivers a performance so tightly wound that it will trigger anyone who’s ever held down a corporate gig. To get to know him better, we asked him to fill out a questionnaire about what exactly it is that he does all day.