The Telegraph5 days agoKit Harington locked in planning battle over bats in barnThe Telegraph - Ruth HallowsIn Game of Thrones, they battled dragons and armies of the undead. But in real life, Kit Harington and Rose Leslie may have come up against their most obdurate foe yet – the humble bat. The couple are seeking permission to convert a 15th-century barn at their £1.75 million home in Brettenham, …
The TelegraphSophie Turner: My life was on pause until I returned to England after divorceThe Telegraph - Telegraph ReportersSophie Turner has suggested that her life was on “on pause” until after she returned to live in England following her divorce. The Game Of Thrones actress, 28, lived in the US during her four-year marriage to the singer and actor Joe Jonas, whom she shares two children with. Speaking to Harper’s …
The TelegraphA 14-year-old boy fell in love with a flirty AI chatbot. He shot himself so they could die togetherThe Telegraph - Benedict SmithA teenage boy killed himself after falling in love with an AI chatbot who told him to “come home to me”. Sewell Setzer, 14, shot himself with his stepfather’s gun after spending months talking to a computer programme named after the Games of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen, whom he called …
The TelegraphThe ‘toxic’ film Hollywood doesn’t want you to seeThe Telegraph - Ed PowerAs wily Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, Peter Dinklage delivered the instantly quotable line: “I drink and I know things”. But where his latest movie is concerned, the actor knows absolutely nothing at all. “I’m not a producer on it – I don’t know,” he said, replying to a query about his …
The TelegraphGemma Whelan interview: ‘They said I wouldn’t work before I was 30 – they were right’The Telegraph - Helen Brown“I’ve got a good line in stern faces,” grins Gemma Whelan. If you saw her as the ruthless warrior Yara Greyjoy in Game of Thrones or as Karen Matthews (who was convicted of faking the abduction of her own daughter, Shannon, in 2008) in the BBC drama The Moorside (2017) or – more recently – playing …
The TelegraphSimon Russell Beale: ‘I’d love to play Cleopatra’The Telegraph - Dominic CavendishSimon Russell Beale is talking about “To be or not to be”, one minute sharing his bemusement at actors who pause around the “or” in that line (“You think, what other option could there be? Sometimes simple is best, don’t chew it too much”), the next reflecting on the rare, rapt mood that sometimes …
