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The actress, 39, was just 19 when she worked with the late director for the first time in a production of The Seagull before starring for him in a film adaptation of Patrick Marber play Closer in 2004.

Getty Images  “You’ve heard of a no-win situation, haven’t you? Vietnam? This?” Albert Brooks kicks off his bruisingly hilarious send-up of romance and jealousy with his character dumping his girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold) because he can’t be sure she didn’t cheat on him. He then spends the rest of the film desperately trying to win her back only to drive her away again. You loathe Brooks’s character in this movie in part because you can’t help but identify with him on so...

Last modified on Sat 19 Dec 2020 01.17 EST Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney 9.20pm, BBC One Hollywood star meets musical legend in this one-hour interview special, pairing up the unlikely duo for an in-depth discussion about McCartney’s long-spanning career and creative process, culminating in the release this week of his McCartney III album, where he played every instrument and wrote and recorded every song during lockdown. There is also talk of his appetite for collaboration, including recen...

Christmas is very much Alan territory: Steve Coogan in Knowing Me, Knowing Yule Credit: Alamy Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge – the comedy chat show first broadcast in 1994 – is perhaps best remembered for Alan’s “A-ha!” catchphrase (indeed, it’s dogged both Partridge and alter-ego Steve Coogan ever since: see Coogan shouting “A-ha!” into the northern wilderness in The Trip).  But it was Alan’s  other catchphrase which best surmised the show. “And on that bomb...