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Culture Editor @BritishGQ. Dubliner in London. Words for The Guardian, Dazed, Conde Nast Traveller & more. [email protected]
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Joined April 2012
Went on a tour of the Warner Bros Studio Lot with Movie Star Glen Powell.
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RT @olivia_ovenden: I wrote about leaving social media, so here I am sharing it on social media
observer.co.uk
Olivia Ovenden broke up with social media after her divorce. She didn’t anticipate the difficulty of splitting from her virtual self
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RT @olivia_ovenden: Jonathan Bailey saw himself in Jurassic Park and cried. Then Steven Spielberg saw it and got emotional too. Loved doi….
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RT @The_SummerMan: for GQ Hype: riding around NYC shining w Clipse talking brotherly love, Roc Nation, The Kendrick Verse, beef lawsuits, K….
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RT @hayleycampbell: In my ongoing dilf tour of your television screen, I interviewed David Harbour for @BritishGQ. We talked about moustach….
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"Checking in on that psychic damage being done to those characters was fascinating and tragic to me.". Spoke to HBO's giant-killer Mark Mylod about filming The Last of Us' big death (he worked on that one episode for SIX MONTHS)
gq-magazine.co.uk
Director Mark Mylod talks changes from the game, alternative versions of the most harrowing episode of The Last of Us yet
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RT @FilmUpdates: Aimee Lou Wood says discussing with Michelle Monaghan and Carrie Coon whether nudity made sense for their storylines helpe….
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RT @ianamurray: sat down with adam scott a few weeks ago to break down the severance finale! very appreciative of how game he was to hear m….
gq-magazine.co.uk
The star of the most theorised-about show on TV breaks down its riveting second season – including that ending
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Another Danny Dyer heater on @BritishGQ this morning. Excellent Q&A on Marching Powder by @SamDiss .
gq-magazine.co.uk
As his new film, Marching Powder, hits cinemas, the East End legend speaks to GQ about playing a different kind of romantic lead, and the flaws at the heart of the UK's film and TV industry
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RT @jackarking: “Film culture in Great Britain is unthinkable without the Prince Charles.” Emailed and voice-noted with Christopher Nolan,….
gq-magazine.co.uk
London’s movie mecca has been an indelible part of the capital’s cultural landscape since it opened in the ‘60s. Now under threat of closure, GQ spoke to actors, filmmakers and more about why losing...
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Had an intense oul chat with Andrew Garfield.
gq-magazine.co.uk
You'll have noticed that Andrew Garfield is talking a lot about grief lately. Now, he's reckoning with the cost of regularly opening the door to tremendous pain
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RT @olivia_ovenden: A Real Pain was my favourite film this year, I loved talking to Jesse Eisenberg about it
gq-magazine.co.uk
The master of tightly-wound characters has spent his life envious of people who move through the world with ease. In making his new dark comedy, A Real Pain, he found the upsides to not being that guy
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I talked to Vincent Kartheiser about the life and times of Pete Campbell, TV's greatest office stooge.
gq-magazine.co.uk
To kick off GQ's Watercooler Week – a celebration and excavation of the workplace in TV – the man behind the most embarrassing man on Madison Avenue explains how he became television's greatest...
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Nicole Kidman and I talked about death over oysters.
gq-magazine.co.uk
Four decades into her career, the Oscar-winning actress has become prestige TV’s most reliable hitmaker. So why did she fight to make a hot, sweaty indie movie about BDSM and the liberation of female...
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RT @Jefflez: Very excited to make my writing debut for @BritishGQ looking at why we care *too* much about Shawn Mendes' sexuality and what….
gq-magazine.co.uk
Mendes is the latest celebrity to feel the need to address speculation over his sexuality in public
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RT @olivia_ovenden: for the november issue, I spent some time with Fontaines DC right as they blew up
gq.com
The Irish band has an acclaimed new album, a hyped tour, and a growing cadre of celebrity fans.
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Sebastian Stan told me how he became Trump
gq-magazine.co.uk
With an uncanny performance as a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice and an even less recognisable turn in A Different Man, the shapeshifting actor is embracing his freaky side
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RT @killianfkelly: in which I liken Kneecap to Magritte and a Rorschach test .
gq-magazine.co.uk
The Irish-language hip-hip trio – who just released their debut film to rave reviews worldwide – are controversial, unapologetic and, now, very famous
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