Film about a genie starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton is partly true, says director at Cannes

George Miller reveals the inside story of his big-screen premiere, Three Thousand Years of Longing, based on an AS Byatt story

Tony Ross: ‘I wasn’t at all like Horrid Henry when I was a boy’

The author and illustrator, 83, tells Donna Ferguson about working with Roald Dahl, his three happy marriages, feeling sorry for optimists and being brought up in the Blitz

Marvel star Simu Liu: ‘I felt like my parents wanted to rid my life of joy or happiness’

The Chinese-Canadian actor broke new ground as Marvel’s first Asian superhero, Shang-Chi. Now he is confronting parental pressure and anti-Asian prejudice in an unflinching new memoir

Novelist Julie Myerson on sharing her children’s secrets: ‘I’ve got in so much trouble’

She was accused of ‘betraying motherhood’ after she was revealed as the anonymous author of the Guardian’s Living with Teenagers column. So is her novel about a child with addiction issues reopening old wounds?

‘I wish I was very good-looking and very stupid’: Terence Davies on sex, death and Benediction

As his Siegfried Sassoon biopic is released, the director opens up about his ill-fated straight romance, being snubbed by Bafta and how it felt to sleep in the bed where his father died

‘We cannot live without love’: when Dr Love met Dr Loneliness

Stephanie and John Cacioppo were two neuroscientists specialising in love and loneliness. When they married, they put theory into practice. But when John died suddenly, would her science save her?

William Brewer: ‘The Red Arrow isn’t a drug book, but…’

The American author on how his own experience of psychedelic therapy sparked his debut novel, and his poems about the opioid epidemic

Camille Kouchner’s Familia Grande: ‘I knew my stepfather’s games… but with my brother, too?’

Kouchner’s memoir about Olivier Duhamel’s abuse of her twin brother sent the French cultural elite into crisis. She talks about her parents’ hedonistic generation – and the secret she could no longer keep

My brother the superhero: how the death of comic book legend Steve Dillon inspired a creative awakening

Glyn Dillon designed costumes for Star Wars, while his brother Steve created the Preacher comic strip. When Steve died at 54, Glyn bought a ladder and some vast canvases - and poured his grief into painting

‘I turned up as a snotty kid who looked right’: Tom Felton’s life after Harry Potter

Tom Felton struck gold when he was cast as Draco Malfoy, the evil schoolboy wizard, in the first Harry Potter film. Twenty years on, he’s still coming to terms with the franchise’s success – but first he’s on the West End stage in a ghost story that’s giving him the jitters

Sara Cox: ‘There were some tears, some “I can’t do this”’

The DJ and writer on coming to terms with being a novelist, the appeal of middle-aged men and the book that broke her heart

Morgan Levine: ‘Only 10-30% of our lifespan is estimated to be due to genetics’

The Yale scientist explains her research into biological and chronological age – and why she’s joined a $3bn startup funded by the likes of Jeff Bezos

Tom Tilley on growing up ‘hardline’ Pentecostal: ‘It was weird – it was speaking in tongues’

After leaving the church in his early 20s, the former Hack host spent more than a decade making up for lost time in the party scene. Now a father, he’s looking for meaning without religion

Short story writer Deesha Philyaw: ‘I wanted to challenge the church’s obsession with sex’

The author of the acclaimed The Secret Life of Church Ladies on the Black American Christian community, sexual shame and coming to terms with her queerness

Screenwriter Abi Morgan: ‘I am absolutely the same, but profoundly changed’

The acclaimed creator of The Split and The Iron Lady has endured three gruelling years of loss and illness. Now she’s written it all up, and it reads like a thriller