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Annabel Nugent
Annabel Nugent is a Features Writer and Commissioning Editor at The Independent, covering music, TV and film. She reguarly interviews Hollywood's biggest stars and reviews music's most talked-about concerts and releases. She first joined The Independent in 2020 as a culture reporter
Marina Abramović: ‘I’m going to be attacked by every British tabloid’
David Harewood on Othello: ‘I had to go off and have a little sob’
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Ewan McGregor on his return to the West End: ‘God it’s intense!’
JADE: ‘No one I know came off X Factor without a mental health issue’
Why Anora deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture
The awards season staple features a star-making performance from 25-year-old Mikey Madison and a tone that oscillates between slapstick, romcom and bleak drama – and it’d be a worthy winner on Oscar night, writes Annabel Nugent
Zoe Saldaña: ‘The Oscars tend to overlook actors using CGI technology’
Tom Hanks has hit a low – where does he go from Here?
Bernardine Evaristo: ‘A Black woman hasn’t won the Booker since me’
Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon on His Three Daughters
Bernardine Evaristo: ‘A Black woman hasn’t won the Booker since me’
Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon on His Three Daughters
Eugene Levy: ‘I’m not ruling anything out – including retirement’
The Canadian comedian made his name playing the hapless dad in the raunchy 1999 comedy ‘American Pie’, and recently won a whole new fanbase with the Emmy award-winning sitcom ‘Schitt’s Creek’. As he returns to once again potter around Europe in the Apple travelogue show ‘The Reluctant Traveller’, he tells Annabel Nugent why comedy was more macho in the 1970s, why he hates leaving home, and why retirement is on the table
J Balvin: ‘In the super macho man reggaeton world, I looked weak’
He is one of the biggest artists on Spotify, with 57 million monthly listeners. Yet his career hasn’t been straightforward. As the Colombian star prepares to play the O2, he tells Annabel Nugent about learning from his mistakes and why his young son is the reason he keeps going
Marika Hackman: ‘Even before I came out, my lyrics were all super gay’
Since putting out her electro-folk debut in 2015, Marika Hackman has thrown out curve ball after curve ball with her shape-shifting sound and lyrical boldness. She meets Annabel Nugent down at the pub to chat so-called ‘songstresses’, secret crushes, and the golden rule for dating a musician
Callum Turner: ‘People had a hang-up over my former modelling career’
The star of ‘War & Peace’ and ‘The Capture’ talks to Annabel Nugent about his ‘period’ look, practising lines on Christmas Day, and learning to row for ‘The Boys in the Boat’
Simon Pegg: ‘People always ask when I’m going on Strictly – never’
Paloma Faith: ‘It was worth losing our relationship for our children’
Netflix star Kate Berlant: ‘Culture is so sexless right now’
The US comedian is wowing London audiences with her metatheatrical one-woman show ‘Kate’. She speaks to Annabel Nugent about child stardom, being a ‘nepo baby’ (or at least being seen as one), and why critics won’t comment on her hotness
Weyes Blood: ‘I wanted to be an artist but I had no family money’
Ahead of the release of her much-anticipated fifth album, Natalie Mering speaks to Annabel Nugent about coming to terms with the reality of climate change, her ‘wild’ days performing with a metal band and living in the ‘underbelly of society’