BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Why Harry Potter star Alfred Enoch is now Wilde at heart 

Alfred Enoch is discovering that not only does the devil get the best lines, he gets the best clothes, too. Enoch, who played Gryffindor good guy Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films, is a fan of the louche looks he displays in an updated filmed play of Oscar Wilde’s 19th-century tale of depravity, The Picture … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The Serpent’s Tahar Rahim goes face to face with Jodie Foster 

Tahar Rahim ensured his co-stars were scared of him when playing a killer in BBC hit drama The Serpent — by giving them the cold shoulder. For the first two weeks of filming the mini-series about sinister Charles Sobhraj and his murder sprees along South-east Asia’s hippie trail with accomplice Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman), Rahim … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: A French twist for Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess in new Downton movie 

The entente cordiale between the UK and France will surely be improved if Maggie Smith and Nathalie Baye, one of the greatest living French actresses, have anything to do with it. The two screen legends will meet on the set of the Downton Abbey film sequel that’s due to begin shooting in late March or … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Bond star Mads Mikkelsen says it’s No Time To Die for Daniel Craig 

Mads Mikkelsen quite fancied the idea of following Maud Adams’s lead by playing two different roles in James Bond films. Adams famously played Andrea Anders in The Man With The Golden Gun, and then 11 years later, in 1983, there she was again, this time as title character Octopussy. Up on my Zoom screen, the … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: I feel exhausted by trying to have it all, says Billie Piper 

Billie Piper, who has bemoaned the fact that she never gets asked to do big studio films, will star alongside Fleabag’s hot priest Andrew Scott and Bella Ramsey (Lyanna Mormont in Game Of Thrones) in a new movie written and directed by Lena Dunham, the innovative creator behind television shows such as Girls and Industry. … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Corrin lands a risque role to Di for…

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Corrin lands a risque role to Di for… opposite hunky Harry Styles By Baz Bambigboye For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 4 February 2021 Emma Corrin, who plays Lady Diana Spencer in The Crown, has bagged a leading role in upcoming film My Policeman … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Cornwall’s buoy band Fisherman’s Friends are sailing for West End

The unlikeliest hit film, Fisherman’s Friends, has set a course for the West End, and is getting ready to sail into the sometimes choppy seas of musical theatre. It is based on the true story of the shanty singing fishermen, from the Cornish village of Port Isaac, who found fame after being snapped up by … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The star who earned his stripes the hard way 

Adarsh Gourav is electrifying in the screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s bestseller The White Tiger — and he certainly suffered for his art. Gourav plays Balram, an underdog, born to serve India’s idle rich, who clambers up a greasy, murderous pole. But when he went undercover in a village, to see what Balram’s early years … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Why heartthrob Denzel Washington is still raising the roof at 66 

Denzel Washington said he’s not worried about getting older. Nor is he envious of the leading men lining up behind him (his son John David Washington is in the queue). And he doesn’t care if he no longer cuts the svelte figure he did when Geena Davis handed him his first Oscar statuette three decades … Read more