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Hadley Freeman

Hadley Freeman is a former Guardian columnist and features writer

November 2022

  • Hadley Freeman with Keanu Reeves in 2019.

    Celebrities? They’re all a bit weird … Hadley Freeman on 22 years interviewing stars

  • ‘It might have been difficult for Rosanna’ … Madonna and Rosanna Arquette; the singer required security after appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone.

    Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan

October 2022

  • Instant charisma … Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

    ‘How I became a sexual creature’ – Paul Newman reveals all in newly discovered memoir

    He was Hollywood’s Mr Perfect. But in his astonishing posthumous autobiography, the star faces up to his alcohol problems, his fatherly failings – and reveals the secret of his sex appeal. We speak to his daughter about the revelations
  • Screen Talk: Aubrey Plaza - 66th BFI London Film Festival<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 10: Filmmaker Aubrey Plaza poses for a photograph ahead of appearing onstage during Screen Talk at the 66th BFI London Film Festival at the Curzon Soho on October 10, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for BFI)

    Aubrey Plaza: ‘I totally care what people think and I wish that I didn’t’

    The actor notorious for playing sardonic oddballs on loving Danny DeVito, keeping up with her Parks and Rec co-stars and why she’s nowhere near as kooky in real life
  • ‘This business is tough. You really get beat up in a lot of ways’ … Ryan Phillippe.

    ‘I don’t care what my value is today’: teen dream Ryan Phillippe on co-parenting with Reese Witherspoon and opening a B&B

    He was the baby-faced star of the 90s and 00s. As he resurfaces in a climbing caper, the actor talks about being mistaken for Justin Timberlake – and his plan to get into the hospitality industry

September 2022

  • BILL MURRAY, LOST IN TRANSLATION, 2003<br>2JH2NR3 BILL MURRAY, LOST IN TRANSLATION, 2003

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    Bill Murray’s 20 best performances – ranked!

  • William and Harry

    Harry: the prince who wanted out but could not really leave

    Hadley Freeman
  • Head shot of actor Richard E Grant in red shirt against green background

    Richard E Grant on grief, fame and life without a filter: ‘I 100% believe that secrets are toxic’

  • Patrick Cox and his dog standing on the edge of a swimming pool at his house in Ibiza, with trees and mountains in the background

    ‘I’m not a shaman – I just want to help people’: shoe designer Patrick Cox on his psychedelic toad awakening

  • For Americans, the Queen was the ultimate celebrity

  • ‘At first she didn’t like my drawings’: Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson on three decades of collaboration

August 2022

  • ‘I think I became a photographer because of my own experience of being objectified’ … Amanda de Cadenet in Los Angeles this month.

    ‘I could not get out of Britain fast enough’: Amanda de Cadenet on tabloid bullies, teenage fame and making it in the US

  • Salman Rushdie in Le Havre, France, 2016

    I could not believe how bravely Salman Rushdie faced the threats to his life. That’s true courage

    Hadley Freeman

July 2022

  • Rebekah Vardy leaves the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, during earlier part of the trial in May, 2022.

    The Vardy Effect: Going to court to deny something a rock could see is true

  • Fantasia

    Bewildered, bored, delighted? The Disney classics my kids loved – and the ones they couldn’t finish

June 2022

  • Peter Doherty, photographed in France last month.

    Pete Doherty on swapping crack for camembert in France: ‘It’s easier to be clean here – even for a scoundrel’

    Twenty years after the Libertines’ narcotics-fuelled heyday, has the singer really put the chaos behind him?
  • James Brolin.

    James Brolin on building aeroplanes and wooing Barbra Streisand: ‘When I first saw her I went whoa!’

    He’s US TV royalty, Barbra Streisand’s other half, and has some seriously impressive hobbies – but even at 81, the Lightyear star still suffers from ‘collywobbles’
  • Anna Wintour

    Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell review – the Genghis Khan of fashion?

    A scrupulously researched attempt to explain fabled Vogue editor Anna Wintour fails to probe deeply enough

May 2022

  • Illustration of Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy's faces against pink background

    ‘High drama, with the lowest stakes’ – what really happened at the Wagatha Christie trial

  • A convincing psychopath … Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas.

    Interviewing Ray Liotta was a unique experience - he was an actor without pretence

    Hadley Freeman
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