“When you’re faced with bad translation, I literally roll my eyes, shake my head, and put my face in my hands in despair.”
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“If I wanted to play myself, I’d do reality TV. I don’t want to play Kieron. I do that every single day. I want to play characters that push me.”
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“I was trying to figure out, who am I? What do I stand for? What’s important to me? And of course, in hindsight, that’s exactly what Joe was going through.”
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“Rarely do actors get to be artists. And I think being an artist is about having something to say.”
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“I don’t feel that I’m a transformative actor. I feel that I play versions of myself.”
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- Jake Dunn
- Robert Pattinson
- Skyler Gisondo
- Lili Reinhart
- Tom Bateman
- Hoyeon
- Adria Arjona
- Adam Wingard
- Drew Starkey
- Dan Stevens
- Jane Schoenbrun
- Cooper Hoffman
- Chase Sui Wonders
- Mason Gooding
- Jodie Comer
- Hugh Jackman
- Myra Molloy
- Maya da Costa
- Hayley Kiyoko
- Joe Bird
- Adrian Chiarella
- Elliot Tuttle
- Kieron Moore
- Nicholas Galitzine
- Camila Mendes
- Kara Young
- Mallori Johnson
- Aleshea Harris
- Inde Navarrette
- Michael Johnston
- Curry Barker
- Nicola Coughlan
- Lydia West
- Daniel Goldhaber
- Isa Mazzei
- Elle Fanning
- Stellan Skarsgård
- Michelle Yeoh
- Dacre Montgomery
- Joaquin Phoenix
- Jack Lowden
- Delainey Hayles
- Daisy Edgar-Jones
- Sasha Calle
- Diego Calva
- Daniel Minahan
- Lily Gladstone
- Kelly Marie Tran
- Han Gi-chan
- Kit Connor
- Joseph Quinn
- Cosmo Jarvis
- Will Poulter
- Charles Melton
- D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
- Jenna Ortega
- Paul Rudd
- Tom Blyth
- Hayden Panettiere
- Ruaridh Mollica
- Emma Stone
- Willem Dafoe
- Margaret Qualley
- Mamoudou Athie
- Zendaya
- Josh O’Connor
- Mike Faist
- Henry Cavill
- Henry Golding
- Hero Fiennes Tiffin
- Alex Pettyfer
- Morfydd Clark
Long-form features and on-camera junkets with the people who make films and television, for Film Updates and A Shot Magazine. The conversations run long and are published close to how they happened.
36 interviews since 2021
Longform
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Actor, My Brilliant Career
Jake Dunn
2026
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Writer-director, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Jane Schoenbrun
2026
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Actor and writer-director, Blue Film
Elliot Tuttle and Kieron Moore
2026
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Director and writer, Faces of Death
Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei
2026
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Actor, American Sweatshop
Lili Reinhart
2025
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Actor, Ne Zha II
Michelle Yeoh
2025
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Actor, Blue Film
Kieron Moore
2025
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Actor, Went Up the Hill
Dacre Montgomery
2025
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Actor, Eddington
Joaquin Phoenix
2025
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Actor, What It Feels Like for a Girl
Jake Dunn
2025
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Actor, Tornado
Jack Lowden
2025
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Actor, Interview with the Vampire
Delainey Hayles
2025
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Actor, Plainclothes
Tom Blyth
2025
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Actor, Amber Alert
Hayden Panettiere
2024
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Actor, Sebastian
Ruaridh Mollica
2024
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Actor, Saint Maud
Morfydd Clark
2021
No interviews under this credit yet.
Junkets
On-camera interviews with casts and filmmakers, one entry per film-
Primetime
Robert Pattinson and Skyler Gisondo
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The Love Hypothesis
Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman
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Hope
Hoyeon
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Onslaught
Adria Arjona, Adam Wingard, Drew Starkey and Dan Stevens
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I Want Your Sex
Cooper Hoffman, Chase Sui Wonders and Mason Gooding
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The Death of Robin Hood
Jodie Comer and Hugh Jackman
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Girls Like Girls
Myra Molloy, Maya da Costa and Hayley Kiyoko
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Leviticus
Joe Bird and Adrian Chiarella
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Masters of the Universe
Nicholas Galitzine and Camila Mendes
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Is God Is
Kara Young, Mallori Johnson and Aleshea Harris
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Obsession
Inde Navarrette, Michael Johnston and Curry Barker
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Big Mood
Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West
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Sentimental Value
Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård
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On Swift Horses
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sasha Calle, Diego Calva and Daniel Minahan
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The Wedding Banquet
Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan
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Warfare
Kit Connor, Joseph Quinn, Cosmo Jarvis, Will Poulter, Charles Melton and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
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Death of a Unicorn
Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd
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Kinds of Kindness
Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and Mamoudou Athie
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Challengers
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Henry Cavill, Henry Golding, Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Alex Pettyfer
Watch YouTube
On the record
“I’m not the wag-of-my-tail type. I’m the person that can run in and be like, ‘Look, I’m in love with you, I should just come clean.”
“She has a lot of demons and she’s trying, man. She’s really trying, and unfortunately it’s the wrong weekend.”
“I’m really proud to be making work from within transition.”
About
- Editor-in-Chief
- Film Updates
- Also for
- A Shot Magazine
- Based in
- UK and US
- Formats
- Longform features, video junkets
Ahmad Waddah is the Editor-in-Chief of Film Updates, the film and television publication, and interviews on its behalf and for A Shot Magazine. He works between the UK and the US.
The longform pieces are built around what the subject actually said, with the questions kept in and the small talk taken out. The junkets are short on-camera conversations with casts and filmmakers around a release, shot for social and cut fast.