Maggie Gyllenhaal thought long and hard before taking a role in the new Batman film. Will Lawrence hears how a brush with big budget Hollywood fits into the plans of an actor who has always played the fame game her own way
In 1974, a young Frenchman stepped out to tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. Now a film has been made of Philippe Petit’s
gravity-defying feat. Stephen Phelan spoke to him about the ‘artistic crime of the century’