Film and TV

Antonio Banderas has dramatically revealed that a drag queen once saved his life. The Spanish actor said he was driving a motorbike in 1976 when he got into a serious accident. “The front wheel of my motorbike went into a ditch and, boom! I hit a car and my head hit the tank,” he told The Independent. Banderas said his saviour – described as a ‘drag queen’ in a wig and dress – “came from nowhere, got in the middle of the road and stopped a car to take me...

American Horror Story: Apocalypse actor Billy Porter has opened up about how Pose is expanding the kind of narratives we see for black, gay men on the small screen. Joining showrunner Ryan Murphy for an hour-long conversation at New York cultural and community centre 92Y on Tuesday 13 August, the Emmy-nominated star explained that during his time at Carnegie Mellon University he was regularly cast as “Romeo” in the student productions, but he couldn’t buy himself as a leading man because the “archetypes” that he saw didn’t look like him....

Actress Faye Dunaway is being sued by her former gay assistant for allegedly calling him “a little homosexual boy”. Michael Rocha served as Dunaway’s assistant during her brief time working on the one-woman play Tea at Five earlier this year. In a lawsuit seen by Page Six, Rocha claimed that he was fired for complaining about the way Dunaway treated him. Rocha said he started working for the production as Dunaway’s assistant on April 5 and was responsible for doing her shopping, helping her take medication, arranging her schedule and...