Really." Amy Schumer, Beanie Feldstein, Jayne Houdyshell, Steven Yeun and Richard Jenkins. Smith asked, "Have your cooking skills improved since you've done the show? Are you getting better at this?" But love green bean casserole! Holler!"Īnd Schumer might be able to make her own soon: her husband, chef Chris Fischer, is teaching her to cook on TV, in the Food Network series, "Amy Schumer Learns to Cook." Schumer said, "I hate where Thanksgiving came from, just the rest of the origins of our country – the colonization, raping and pillaging of women. And it kind of freaks me out, if I'm honest. Houdyshell said, "I mean, the meal's nice, but basically the kind of things that I think about are the preparation with my sisters."įeldstein said, "I love the food, obviously, and I love seeing family members that I don't get to see that often.
And you have to, like, battle that, expand that, but also honor that." The cast of "The Humans" reunites, with correspondent Tracy Smith. But when I saw the film, there was Stanley’s name above the title.” Is that a moment of what would be very untypical bitterness? It seems not, for he is quick to add: “It was an amazing film."Yeah. He remains proud and triumphantly upbeat about the film, but I bring him down slightly when I remind him that only one name was above the title and it wasn’t his. He likes to talk about the look of the film and how it influenced so many – including Madonna and Jean Paul Gaultier – though he agrees that it could never be made now with its graphic, if stylised, violence.
TV series in America account for much of McDowell’s professional work these days, but I bring him back to A Clockwork Orange. Did you see his Jeremy Thorpe?” (Incidentally, Night Train’s director Carlo U Quinterio was actually Italian Tahnee Welch would go on to play Viva in I Shot Andy Warhol.) “That was shocking! Hugh turned up with a Scottish accent, a pipe and a limp. I knew him, and actually I liked him.”Īnd then there was 1993’s so-called thriller Night Train to Venice, which his co-star Hugh Grant once described as “the greatest stinker of all time”, explaining that it was “directed by an insane German, with me and Raquel Welch’s daughter starring ”. “I liked what the film had to say about the idea of abuse and the grooming that went on.
For McDowell, it is all uncomfortably close to home, because of his past acquaintance with both Polanski, who was charged with raping a minor, and Weinstein, who was convicted of serial abuses. It was in part the subject matter – abuse by a powerful movie mogul – that attracted him to being in the film. Hathbourne himself tells a chat show: “It was a completely different era. “No one is better placed to know why,” she retorts. “You’re a sick woman,” he says to the actor – played by Alice Krige – when she finally confronts him. It is a dark and often fantastical feminist drama, with McDowell playing Eric Hathbourne, a film director who once, it is implied, abused the 13-year-old star of one of his movies. His latest role is in She Will, the first feature by Franco-British multimedia artist Charlotte Colbert.