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Ben Whishaw

July 2024

  • Ian McKellen as Estragon and Patrick Stewart as Vladimir in Waiting For Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2009.

    The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

    Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking play is back again, this time starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Its tragicomic take on existence may match our cultural moment

June 2024

  • Denise Gough (Emma) and Sinéad Cuack (Doctor/ Therapist/Mum) in People, Places And Things by Duncan Macmillan @ Trafalgar Theatre.

    The week in theatre: Bluets; People, Places & Things – review

  • David Suchet

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: David Suchet’s Poirot secrets, Oklahoma! and more

May 2024

  • Ben Whishaw in glasses, black beanie hat and black shirt looking to camera surrounded by film studio props

    Bluets review – Maggie Nelson’s blue riffs become left-field cine-theatre

  • Film Still: Limonov – The Ballad. Directed By Kirill Serebrennikov. Ben Whishaw

    Limonov: The Ballad review – Ben Whishaw brilliant as Russia’s outlaw bohemian

March 2024

  • Roald Dahl.

    John Lithgow to star in Royal Court play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism

    US actor will appear in Mark Rosenblatt’s drama Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner, in first season of new artistic director David Byrne

December 2023

  • Ben Whishaw & Lucian Msamati to star in Waiting for Godot - Sep 2024

    Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to star in West End production of Waiting for Godot

    Actors to make ‘merry mischief’ in Samuel Beckett’s play at Theatre Royal Haymarket in September

November 2023

  • Jennifer Connelly in Bad Behaviour, directed by Alice Englert.

    Bad Behaviour review – Jennifer Connelly full of spit and vinegar in family rage drama

    Alice Englert directs and stars alongside a mesmerising Connelly in this inconsistent tale about a troubled former child star who checks into a retreat

September 2023

  • Franz Rogowski, left, and Ben Whishaw, who play Tomas and Martin, the couple at the centre of Passages, embrace in a darkened room with others in the background.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Passages review – body language speaks volumes in seductive three-way love story

    Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski are brilliantly believable in Ira Sachs’s exploration of a gay marriage that’s challenged when one partner has a passionate affair with a young woman

August 2023

  • Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos in Ira Sachs’s Passages.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Passages review – Ira Sachs strikes gold with sophisticated love triangle

  • The cast and director of Passages (from left) … Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ira Sachs and Ben Whishaw.

    ‘Ben has a great pelvis and it’s wonderful to show it’: Ira Sachs, Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw on their erotic new film

July 2023

  • A ceramicist dogged by anxiety … Michelle Williams in Showing Up, playing at Edinburgh film festival.

    Edinburgh film festival announces lineup after seeing off closure threat

    Having survived the collapse of its parent organisation, the festival returns with a slimmed-down event

March 2023

  • ‘I admire its imagination of how cinema could respond to #MeToo’ … Claire Foy and Rooney Mara star in Women Talking.

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why Women Talking should win the best picture Oscar

    Let’s be real: its nomination for best movie was the win. But Sarah Polley’s film is predicated on action, a #MeToo film that questions with the aim of moving forward

February 2023

  • Ben Whishaw

    The reader interview
    Ben Whishaw: ‘Maybe Hugh Grant and I could fight in Bridget Jones: The Musical’

    The actor on his grandfather’s mysterious life as a spy, the revolutionary nature of Shakespeare – and the hours he spent studying a horse
  • Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Jessie Buckley in Women Talking.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Women Talking review – a stellar ensemble energises Sarah Polley’s timeless parable​

    The Canadian director’s finely balanced drama about the abuse, secrets and shame of an isolated religious community boasts wonderfully nuanced performances, yet the real action lies in its knotty central argument
  • Thinks its way into the darkest spaces of survival … Women Talking.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Women Talking review – ensemble drama forefronts female experience of violence

    This important film tells the story of a community battered by rape and patriarchal ideas, as a mainly female cast debate the repercussions of brutality

January 2023

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    The reader interview
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  • Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos appear in Passages by Ira Sachs, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Guy Ferrandis / SBS PRODUCTIONS

    First look review
    Passages review – Ira Sachs excels with thorny love triangle drama

December 2022

  • Adam (Ben Whishaw) and Shruti (Ambika Mod) in This Is Going to Hurt.

    2022 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2022: No 10 – This Is Going to Hurt

    Former doctor Adam Kay’s tale of an arrogant gynaecologist struggling in an NHS hospital was shocking, hilarious – and revealed a horrifying truth

September 2022

  • Bridge of spies … The crossing in St James’s Park, London, where new recruits were welcomed into the secret service.

    Kremlin by the Cam and recruiting in a gay cruising ground: Ungentle’s secret history of sex and spying

    Ben Whishaw guides us through a rich, beautifully filmed tour of two covert and overlapping worlds of Britain’s recent past
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