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peaky blinders
Interviews

Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson, who plays Arthur Shelby in Peaky Blinders, spoke to Gustav Temple during the filming of Season 4, about fictional moustaches, starched collars, violence and clothes and sibling relationships. Your moustache is the only moustache in the entire cast of Peaky Blinders. We’re very interested in moustache growing at the Chap. Presumably you have… … Keep Reading

house of the dragon
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Paddy Considine

Chris Sullivan meets the Midlands-born actor who has played gritty characters in British indie films, television goodies and baddies and, most recently, the doomed King Viserys in House of the Dragon. In all my decades as interviewer of both actors and directors for many of the UK’s finest broadsheets, I cannot recall any actor of… … Keep Reading

max raabe
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Max Raabe

Marie de Winter and Ferdinand Sturm meet the German singer to chat about his ideas on good style, tame zebras and his special relationship with the British Isles. On stage is the Palast Orchester: eleven impeccably dressed gentlemen, and a lady in evening dress at the violin. A tall man in a velvet dinner jacket… … Keep Reading

john blashford-snell
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John Blashford-Snell

Gustav Temple meets the legendary explorer whose adventures have taken him across all seven continents, as well as into the heartlands of Britain to help the nation’s underprivileged. You had a special travel suit adapted by Norton & Sons. Could you explain the details?It was to suit all seasons, for use in the tropics, the… … Keep Reading

damon hill
Interviews

Damon Hill

Gustav Temple meets the former Formula 1 world champion racing driver, to discuss his father Graham Hill, playboy racers, handlebar moustaches, The Beatles, rivalry between racing drivers and elightenment behind the wheel. You sent me a wonderful clip of your father Graham Hill from 1964, where he’s discussing gear ratios before a race at Brands… … Keep Reading

valerie leon
Interviews

Valerie Leon

Gustav Temple meets the actress once described as ‘the English Raquel Welch’, who appeared in the Carry On films, episodes of The Persuaders and The Avengers, two of the James Bond films and Hammer House of Horror’s Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb. This interview first appeared in CHAP Spring 22. When you took acting jobs… … Keep Reading

jason-watkins
Interviews

Jason Watkins Interview

Gustav Temple meets the actor whose wide range of roles has included forensic pathologists, serial killer biographers, editors of national newspapers and nearly the landlord of a house full of louche chaps. You may not recall this, but way back in the early 2000s you auditioned for a part in a sitcom we were developing… … Keep Reading

daniel-day-lewis
Features/Interviews

Daniel Day-Lewis

Chris Sullivan met the triple Oscar-winning actor to look back at his entire cinematic career, and to try and find out why he works so damn hard on immersing himself in the difficult roles he chooses. Daniel Day-Lewis’s famously intensive modus operandi is certainly effective. He is the only man ever to win three Best… … Keep Reading

peaky-blinders
Features/Interviews

RIP Helen McCrory

As a tribute to the late actress, who died aged 52 on 16th April, Gustav Temple recalls an inspiring encounter with Helen McCrory in 2019, on the eve of Series 5 of Peaky Blinders. I interviewed Helen McCrory when the fifth season of Peaky Blinders was about to air in 2019. From such a huge… … Keep Reading

martin-freeman
Interviews

Martin Freeman Interview

Chris Sullivan meets the stylish actor to discuss the mod aesthetic, music, Mark Powell, badly dressed actors and acid jazz. Martin Freeman is that rarest of creatures. He is a world famous thespian who is not only very good at his job but, even by the standards of the most anally retentive style monger, is… … Keep Reading

geoffrey-palmer
Interviews/News

Geoffrey Palmer

Several years ago, Alex Smythe-Smith met the lugubrious actor, who recently passed away aged 93, at his home in Buckinghamshire When I interviewed Geoffrey Palmer several years ago, I conducted what I believed to be a credible amount of preparation via research. My overwhelming desire to be aptly primed was based on the instinct that… … Keep Reading

leslie-phillips
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Leslie Phillips

This was one of the last interviews given by Leslie Phillips before his death aged 98 on 7th November 2022. Chris Sullivan met the great bounder at his Maida Vale home to discuss his entire career and reflect on his wartime days and his rise to fame as an actor in the 1950s. I must… … Keep Reading

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