Actor and producer Dakota Johnson explores London in a vintage Bentley with Greg Williams to discuss growing up in a Hollywood family, how she’s learned to trust herself and why Sean Penn calls her the ‘truth machine’.
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Greg Williams visits the Superman set in Atlanta as David Corenswet first suits up and later makes a flying visit to Julliard to discuss vulnerability, confidence and his Lego plans for opening weekend.
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The award-winning British costume designer who regularly reteams with the cream of directors tells Arianne Phillips…
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Greg Williams gets the need for speed when he’s invited into the paddock with the Mercedes- AMG Petronas Formula 1 team…
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The Now You See Me: Now You Don’t starand L’Oréal ambassador tells Hollywood Authentic about manifestation, matches and mom’s cooking.
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In 1944, director Billy Wilder released the quintessential film noir before the term even existed. Double Indemnity bears all the hallmarks of the genre…
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Slave Play alumnus James Cusati-Moyer tells Hollywood Authentic about the art of ‘holding on tightly, letting go lightly’ and the seminal nature of a Rodgers & Hammerstein score.
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Space Odyssey
Ninety years ago, LA opened an observatory high in the hills to watch the firmament above – and the Hollywood community below. Fifty years ago, it starred in landmark teen picture Rebel Without a Cause.…
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Screenwriters for seven 007 films, Robert Wade and Neal Purvis, consider the ‘proto-James Bond’ of Cary Grant’s gentleman spy in Hitchcock’s perfect cocktail of an espionage thriller.
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The Gangs Of London actor tells Hollywood Authentic about the special thrill of bringing the first Nigerian film to competition in Cannes and the emotion of filming My Father’s Shadow in Lagos.
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Over awards season I’ve been lucky enough to be commissioned by Louis Vuitton to shoot Emma Stone before every major awards event…
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When Hollywood Authentic meets up with Adria Arjona and her Splitsville castmate (and co-producer) Dakota Johnson in a suite at the Majestic Hotel on the Cannes Criosette…
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The lead of Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme tells Hollywood Authentic how Cannes was the secret ingredient in their latest collaboration.
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Kaia Gerber invites Greg Williams to her theatre dressing room and discusses her voyage of discovery in her acting career.
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Hollywood Authentic’s photography correspondents Gary Oldman and Gisele Schmidt look at the work of an outsider who innovated technique and equipment for on-set photography and whose Elvis…
