Adam White

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Adam White is features editor across Culture and Lifestyle at The Independent, where he writes and commissions features, essays and interviews. His work has also been published in Dazed, Huck, i-D, Playboy, The Telegraph, The i, Little White Lies, The Quietus and Nylon.

<p>Comic genius: Lisa Kudrow in ‘Time Bandits’, ‘The Comeback’, ‘Friends’, ‘Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion’ and ‘The Opposite of Sex’ </p>

How did we miss Lisa Kudrow’s comic genius all this time?

Over three decades, the ‘Friends’ star has served up a veritable Buffay of complex comic creations, from the tragic Valerie Cherish in ‘The Comeback’ to the frustrated second banana of ‘Romy and Michele’. As the actor headlines Apple TV+’s ‘Time Bandits’, Adam White salutes the outsider appeal of an inimitable comedy great

<p>‘I had a very proud moment where I convinced Christopher Nolan that I was British’ </p>
Interview

Maggie Grace: ‘Being killed off in Lost is still my worst heartbreak’

The ‘Lost’ star – who was famously kidnapped in the Liam Neeson thriller ‘Taken’ – speaks to Adam White about anglophilia, playing damsels in distress, and the time she convinced Christopher Nolan she was British

Interview

Maggie Grace: ‘Being killed off in Lost is still my worst heartbreak’

The ‘Lost’ star – who was famously kidnapped in the Liam Neeson thriller ‘Taken’ – speaks to Adam White about anglophilia, playing damsels in distress, and the time she convinced Christopher Nolan she was British

<p>‘I had a very proud moment where I convinced Christopher Nolan that I was British’ </p>
<p>‘A lot of times when grief happens, tragedy happens. Human beings reach for anything to numb the pain’ </p>
Interview

Zach Braff on depression, Manic Pixie Dream Girls and Florence Pugh

The ‘Scrubs’ star and writer/director behind ‘Garden State’ has returned with ‘A Good Person’, an emotive drama inspired by the tragedies that have shadowed his last four years – and starring his ex-girlfriend. He speaks to Adam White

Interview

Zach Braff on depression, Manic Pixie Dream Girls and Florence Pugh

The ‘Scrubs’ star and writer/director behind ‘Garden State’ has returned with ‘A Good Person’, an emotive drama inspired by the tragedies that have shadowed his last four years – and starring his ex-girlfriend. He speaks to Adam White

<p>‘A lot of times when grief happens, tragedy happens. Human beings reach for anything to numb the pain’ </p>
<p>There were no secrets with Anne Heche, no denial of her demons</p>

Anne Heche was my favourite actor – she should have been yours, too

The screamingly underrated actor, who has died at the age of 53, was prickly and brilliant in films as diverse as ‘Birth’ and ‘Six Days Seven Nights’, and leaves behind a legacy of admirable truth-telling about life’s tragedies and its joys. Adam White remembers a star who always lived on her own terms

Anne Heche was my favourite actor – she should have been yours, too

The screamingly underrated actor, who has died at the age of 53, was prickly and brilliant in films as diverse as ‘Birth’ and ‘Six Days Seven Nights’, and leaves behind a legacy of admirable truth-telling about life’s tragedies and its joys. Adam White remembers a star who always lived on her own terms

<p>There were no secrets with Anne Heche, no denial of her demons</p>
<p>Peter Stormare: ‘When I see myself on film, I only see a giant beak and jaw – I just see the ugly things’</p>
Interview

Peter Stormare: ‘I believe in aliens, UFOs – I pity people who don’t’

The prolific Swedish character actor, best known for feeding Steve Buscemi to a woodchipper in ‘Fargo’, talks to Adam White about psychic powers, Disneyland, and why choosing movies is a bit like being in Oasis

Interview

Peter Stormare: ‘I believe in aliens, UFOs – I pity people who don’t’

The prolific Swedish character actor, best known for feeding Steve Buscemi to a woodchipper in ‘Fargo’, talks to Adam White about psychic powers, Disneyland, and why choosing movies is a bit like being in Oasis

<p>Peter Stormare: ‘When I see myself on film, I only see a giant beak and jaw – I just see the ugly things’</p>
Lee Daniels: ‘I know I’m in a lane of my own’
Interview

Lee Daniels: ‘No one sees the world the way I see it’

The director of Precious tells Adam White about his new Billie Holiday film, cringing at his own movies, and why he thinks there would have been no Black Panther without his hit TV soap

Interview

Lee Daniels: ‘No one sees the world the way I see it’

The director of Precious tells Adam White about his new Billie Holiday film, cringing at his own movies, and why he thinks there would have been no Black Panther without his hit TV soap

Lee Daniels: ‘I know I’m in a lane of my own’

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