During my four-and-a-half years at Metro US, I conducted hundreds of interviews, among them actors and celebrities of all walks of life. I’ve also done them for other outlets, including during my 13 years at Philadelphia Weekly. Here is but a sampling. Note: Interviews are with Metro US unless otherwise noted)
Actors/celebrities (who can sometimes be filmmakers)
Michael Shannon, for Nocturnal Animals, aka the one that got me in trouble with rightwing media
Emma Stone for La La Land
Kristen Stewart, twice: Café Society and Certain Women
Natasha Lyonne for After Birth
Harrison Ford for Paranoia (but mostly about Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda)
Hugh Grant for Florence Foster Jenkins
Winona Ryder for Experimenter
Tilda Swinton for Only Lovers Left Alive
Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett for Truth
Billy Bob Thornton, twice: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and Bad Santa 2
Woody Harrelson for Now You See Me 2
Simon Pegg for Man Up
Kurt Russell for Deepwater Horizon
Sam Elliott, twice: for Grandma and The Hero
Taylor Schilling for Take Me
Jason Isaacs for A Cure for Wellness
Judy Gold for the doc The Last Laugh
Adam Horowitz, aka Ad-Rock of The Beastie Boys, for While We’re Young
Ethan Hawke, thrice: Pre-Destination, Seymour: An Introduction and Maggie’s Plan
Emmanuelle Seigner for Venus in Fur
Wallace Shawn for A Master Builder
Robert Duvall for A Night in Old Mexico
Steve Coogan for Alan Partridge
Peter Sarsgaard for The Sound of Silence (AM New York)
Filmmakers (who can sometimes be actors)
Alfonso Cuarón for Roma (Filmmaker)
Olivier Assayas on Cold Water (Filmmaker)
John Waters, twice: for a Lincoln Center retro and for the restoration of Multiple Maniacs
Jim Jarmusch for Paterson, during which he told me about that time he almost died
Joe Dante for a retro of his work
Terence Davies, who is as hilarious as his films are sad, twice: for Sunset Song and then for (the actually funny, for a while) A Quiet Passion
Whit Stillman for Love & Friendship
Laurie Anderson for her documentary Heart of a Dog
Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson for The Forbidden Room
Michael Moore twice, for Where to Invade Next and TrumpLand
Wim Wenders for a retro of his work
Peter Bogdanovich for She’s Funny That Way
The Brothers Quay for Christopher Nolan’s doc Quay
Marjane Satrapi for The Voices
William Monahan for the remake of The Gambler he wrote
Liv Ullmann for Miss Julie
Frederick Wiseman, twice: National Gallery (Metro US) and Monrovia, Indiana (Filmmaker)
James Gray, twice: for The Lost City of Z and The Immigrant
Teller (of Penn &) for his documentary Tim’s Vermeer
Legendary United Artists/Paramount/Columbia producer David V. Picker for his memoir
Rob Zombie for Lords of Salem
Salman Rushdie about adapting Midnight’s Children for film
Philip Youmans for Burning Cane (Filmmaker)
James DeMonaco for The First Purge (Filmmaker)