‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright

 

‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright

Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giant

 

Toby Jones

‘We talk about boats … not people’: UK dehumanising refugees, Toby Jones says

This article is more than 11 months old

Exclusive: Bafta-winner to join actors and young asylum seekers in 24-hour fundraising ‘Shakespeare marathon’

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Mon 10 Jun 2024 

The Bafta-winning actor Toby Jones has highlighted the dehumanisation of refugees arriving in the UK in boats, and called the Rwanda deportation scheme the latest “in a long line of challenges” that asylum seekers have to face “just to survive”.

‘I’m very aware of being public school now. All those things you loathe’: Toby Jones on class, character and the cost of fame

 

Toby Jones

‘I’m very aware of being public school now. All those things you loathe’: Toby Jones on class, character and the cost of fame

This article is more than 1 year oldPhotograph: David Vintiner/The Guardian

The Detectorists actor discusses his new drama about a scandalous miscarriage of justice – and what Monty Python has in common with Boris Johnson

Zoe Williams

16 December 2023

 

Toby Jones
Photograph: Nadav Kander

Interview

Toby Jones: ‘Do you think I play losers? They're just people'

This article is more than 9 years old

Nobody plays flawed heroes like actor Toby Jones, from Capote to Hitchcock to Captain Mainwaring. But they’re winners in his eyes, he tells Simon Hattenstone

Simon Hattenstone

14 November 2015

Atomic Blonde review / Charlize Theron's ice-cold super-spy makes Bond look arthritic

Atomic Blonde review: Charlize Theron's ice-cold super-spy makes Bond look arthritic

    

Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde

•  Tim Robey, film critic 

11 AUGUST 2017 • 2:28PM

Dir: David Leitch. Cast: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones. 15 cert, 115 min

“I take pleasure in the details,” says a startlingly attractive French spy (Sofia Boutella) to Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde, remembering the latter’s drink of choice – Stoli on ice – as they rendezvous in a Berlin nightclub. Details are everything in this lusciously appointed retro-noir action romp: it gussies up every element of décor and dances its violent way around the furnishings. When the two women repair to bed, it isn’t shy, either.