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Chatted to Meryl Streep about The Iron Lady, for both The Sunday Times Culture and Empire.

Interviewed George Clooney and Alexander Payne about The Descendants and Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen about Shame.

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Over the past 10 years I’ve interviewed many other filmmakers and actors, including Woody Allen, Christian Bale, Brad Bird, Jeff Bridges, Sir Michael Caine, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Tom Cruise,
Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Tony Gilroy, Paul Greengrass, Peter Jackson, Charlie Kaufman, Graham King, Keira Knightley, Ken Loach, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Nolan, Edward Norton, Timothy Olyphant, Alexander Payne, Brad Pitt, Mark Romanek, Steven Soderbergh, Meryl Streep and Rachel Weisz.

In April 2009, I produced Empire’s 20th Birthday Portfolio, staging photo-shoots with some of the most acclaimed actors in the world (click and drag to turn the pages).

Perhaps the most consistently interesting part of my job has been interviewing David Fincher, on various productions.

In 2005 I wrote the definitive article on the making
of Fight Club.
 I was the only journalist to visit the set of Zodiac and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. I wrote a piece on the making of that picture for Total Film, before moving to Empire, where I visited Fincher in post-production. I also conducted a career-spanning Q&A with the acclaimed director.
I visited the set of The Social Network and wrote about it for The Sunday Times (behind the paywall on their site) and Empire (click on Geek Tragedy, above). Most recently, I spent time in London and Stockholm to witness the production of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

In December 2009 I spoke to Mel Gibson about his return to acting with Edge Of Darkness and the highlights of 30 years on film sets, having previously interviewed him for Empire’s Birthday Portfolio and Apocalypto.

Edward Norton only gave two print interviews worldwide regarding The Incredible Hulk. 
I spoke with him in January and April, 2008, as rumours swirled about a troubled post-production period. 
I previously conducted a career-spanning interview with Norton in New York.

More recent articles including an interview with the real gangster behind GoodFellas, Henry Hill.

I also  enjoyed chatting with the very engaging Antonio Banderas, writing about the making of Source Code, the sci-fi thriller from Moon director Duncan Jones, and moderating a readers’ Q&A with The Departed producer Graham King.

It was also great to sit down with Ken Loach, to discuss his lengthy, extraordinary career. “You want to stick two fingers up to Hollywood, really…”

My reviews are linked to on Rotten Tomatoes and my old BBC column is here.