#michael-massey

#michael-massey

"[Bias] is that thing that stops you being regarded as a person and makes you something smaller. With my accent, I've had that experience where I'm suddenly no longer a person with infinite possibilities and potential - I am 'that Scottish person'. I'm reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth."

John Slattery, 63, moved to an apartment on Bank Street in the West Village after marrying the actress Talia Balsam in 1998. At the time, he had established himself as a character actor.

Here, a central character hides behind so many layers of deceit, he almost believes his own version of the truth while his wife refuses to believe their son died in the war. The pitfalls of capitalism and the hollowness of the American Dream certainly resonate today as they did after World War II.

I went through a period in my 20s where I read all of Jim Thompson and all of those writers. I just went through and through and through all of that stuff, so I was pretty well-versed in the medium and the genre. I've never really done a day-to-day procedural before, but we balance it out with the relationship stuff that keeps it grounded and keeps it interesting for me to do.

I remember seeing it in drama school. I remember being so profoundly moved by it. I remember being so frightened by the performances in terms of seeing both sides to the thing that I think for most of us is, the most alive thing in our life, which is these, like, romantic relationships and the kind of inception of those things and the death of those things.

He was on the Emmys trail for his role as Cal Jacobs, the tyrannical father of Nate (Jacob Elordi). He wouldn't earn a nomination for the role, but damn if he didn't deserve it: Dane introduces Cal as a raging maniac, only to convincingly unfurl him as an ailing man who struggled with his sexuality his entire life. Cal's searing coming-out scene in season 2, episode 4 of Euphoria is one of the greatest monologues in recent TV memory.

Busfield, 68, has been charged with two felony counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and a single count of child abuse for allegedly inappropriately touching two child actors while he worked as a director and executive producer on the Fox drama "The Cleaning Lady," filmed in Albuquerque. He was held without bond pending a hearing on a motion for pretrial detention.

The Creek, as you called it when you explained why you were busy on Wednesday nights, blew up out of the box, helping The WB find its teen serial lane along with shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Felicity, and later Charmed and Smallville. Like the characters on the rest of those shows, the kids on The Creek had superpowers, and theirs was the coolest of all: they talked like wise, insightful grownups who'd read a lot of books.

Kyle MacLachlan (Washington, 66 years old) is not used to contemplating the apocalypse. It's enough to make it to the end of the day, the actor jokes from his Los Angeles home. In one hand, he holds a cup of black coffee a la Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks, and in the other, a fistful of nuts. I'm going to eat breakfast while we talk, he warns, with his habitual blend of amiability and oddity.

"When I met up with Michael B. Jordan at the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank before a late-night event on the lot, he seemed exhausted and understandably so. The always-in-demand actor, one of Hollywood's hottest talents, was just back from Europe, where he spent a year directing, acting and producing a new version of the heist thriller The Thomas Crown Affair."

It's so good when you get to do Zoom press with ['Gladiator II' co-star] Pedro [Pascal] or 'The History of Sound' co-star] Josh [O'Connor] or Jessie," he said. "It's immediate. It's such a joy. But I do find that it cranks up this level of imposter syndrome, where you spend so much time talking about it that when you go back to set, you're like, 'Jesus, I better be fucking good,' because you spent so much time discussing it. I'm just taking a break from promoting because I have nothing to promote!

Melling plays Colin, a certified beta whose deepest desire is to serve. He gets his wish when he meets Ray (Skarsgård), a toppy, Tom of Finland -esque biker with an attitude so icy it could preserve food. The two enter into a full-time power-exchange relationship that fuels both of their desires, until their connection evolves to a heart-wrenching breaking point.