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Emine Saner

Emine Saner is a feature writer for the Guardian

August 2024

  • Gatecrashed party … (l-r) Melanie Mayron, Marilu Henner, Brooke Adams and Caroline Aaron in Madwomen of the West.

    ‘The younger generation condemn us’: stars of Madwomen of the West hit back at cancel culture

  • An illustration showing an exhausted bridesmaid being pulled in two directions

    Secret confessions of bridesmaids: ‘The dress alone cost me two months’ rent’

July 2024

  • Natalie Portman in Lady in the Lake.

    Natalie Portman on love, divorce and Paul Mescal: ‘I’m very in awe of his talent’

    She may have been on screen since she was 12, but with new drama Lady in the Lake, her TV career is only just beginning. The Oscar winner talks antisemitism, getting threatened on set – and the pictures that lit up the internet
  • Alicia Witt, 2024

    ‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’: Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film

    The actor and singer explains how starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the deeply unsettling new horror Longlegs helped her deal with a cancer diagnosis and the tragic death of her parents
  • ‘A generation was completely wiped out’ … Gaynor Madgwick above Aberfan.

    How we survive
    A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black. How I lost my brother, sister and stability to the Aberfan disaster

    In 1966, a colliery spoil tip collapsed on a primary school in Wales. 144 people were killed, including 116 children. Gaynor Madgwick recalls waking up in the debris – and the horror and healing that followed

June 2024

  • Cyndi Lauper

    ‘Want to be a real artist? Keep going!’: Cyndi Lauper at 71 on self-doubt, success – and surviving sexual assault

    She’s the subject of a new documentary, has just announced her farewell tour, and is about to play Glastonbury. The singer and songwriter discusses Trump, resilience and why she hated being pitted against Madonna
  • Michael Anthony Hall

    ‘My life was surreal’: Anthony Michael Hall on John Hughes, therapy and his ‘wild ass’ childhood

    He was a Hollywood sensation headlining on Saturday Night Live – and was still too young for a driving licence. But things did not always go well for The Breakfast Club actor
    • Wedding wars! How photographers took over – and vicars fought back

    • Fascinating Olympians
      Abandoned, abused and belittled: how Oksana Masters survived a torturous childhood – and became a world-beating athlete

    • ‘It definitely got me a seat in therapy’: Diane Lane on child stardom, sleazy execs and thriving in her 50s

May 2024

  • ‘A liberated rack isn’t ashamed, it does what it wants to do’ … Sarah Thornton at home in California.

    ‘Breasts are a serious political problem’: one woman’s quest to reclaim her chest

  • ‘No one ever knows what the world has in store for you’ … Rhee Kun Hoo in Seoul.

    If you live to 100, you might as well be happy: what poverty, jail and war have taught author Rhee Kun Hoo

April 2024

  • Dr Patric Gagne, author of Sociopath: A Memoir. Photograph: Zack Wittman/The Guardian)

    Weekend
    What’s it like to be a sociopath?; Gen Z’s lust for Sex and the City; and Marina Hyde on ‘President’ The Rock – podcast

    Marina Hyde with her take on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s surreal US presidential bid; Emine Saner meets the sociopath who learned to behave – and found happiness; why Gen Z has fallen in love with Sex and the City; and do our political opponents really hate us?
  • Helen Lederer in a black jacket stands with her back to a mirror.

    Helen Lederer on envy, rejection, fun and fame: ‘I wanted it so badly – maybe that’s not normal’

    She has appeared in some of the biggest sitcoms in British comedy history, from The Young Ones to Ab Fab, but always longed for her own show. Now 69, she looks back on the hilarity of her life – and the mortification
  • Closeup of Patric Gagne

    The G2 interview
    ‘I didn’t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building … ’ The sociopath who learned to behave – and found happiness

    Patric Gagne has spent most of her life fighting terrible urges. She is also a loving sister, daughter, mother and wife. She talks about her remarkable journey

March 2024

  • ‘One of the key elements of the educational system is that schools have a lot of freedom’ …. Cordelia Violet Paap and Targo Tammela at Pelgulinna State Gymnasium.

    Euro visions
    Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe

    How did a small, relatively poor country become an educational powerhouse? Creativity, autonomy and a deep embrace of the digital age
  • Annie Potts 
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    ‘I’m still trying to recover’: Annie Potts on Ghostbusters, Toy Story – and the car crash that almost killed her

    She has played Janine in Ghostbusters since the franchise started, not to mention her star turn as Bo Peep. But, as Potts says, her life and career were almost over before they had really begun
    • The people who started again in their 90s: ‘I was in the closet for 95 years. Then that door blew open!’

    • The G2 interview
      Arlene Phillips at 80: on Strictly, scandal, survival – and still being a sizzling hot choreographer

    • ‘We had a very dry orgy!’ Tony Curran on mastering Jacobean sex for Mary & George

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