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Katie Maloney of Vanderpump Rules. Pictured: Katie Maloney

Katie Maloney: Vanderpump Rules

The series is in season 11 now. Looking back, do you have any sense of what makes Vanderpump really stand out on the reality TV landscape? Since the beginning, our show has resonated with people because it was really about the friendships — and I think that came across. It was very evident that…

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Allegiance on CBC. Pictured: Enrico Colantoni as Vince Brambilla.

Enrico Colantoni: Allegiance

What makes Allegiance stand out from the ocean of other “cop dramas”? This show is beautiful because it’s a futuristic look at policing. Vince and Sabrina are idealistic. They care. They wear their hearts on their sleeves . . . We’re representing the heart and the soul of policing — what they come in…

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Serinda Swan: Reacher, on Prime Video

Serinda Swan: Reacher

You’re a newbie to the Reacher-verse. Did you watch season one at all? Definitely watched the first season. I watched it because one of my dear friends was in the first season: Willa [Fitzgerald, who played police officer Roscoe Conklin]. She actually took me as her guest for the premiere, randomly enough. So I’m…

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Rosamund Pike: Saltburn

This movie is, on some level, a genre-bender. Could we perhaps best describe it as a satire? I would definitely entertain the word “satire.” It’s a satirical thriller. But there’s nothing in the film that isn’t real. This is how these people exist. So, in a way, you could call it documentary [laughs]. The…

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Dougray scott in Irvine Welsh’s Crime

Do you think Ray Lennox, on some level, subverts that old archetype of the “troubled yet brilliant” detective? DOUGRAY SCOTT: I think he does. You’ve seen “troubled” detectives before, but I don’t think many of them go into the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, and how that fuels a character like Lennox, and how…

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Gary Oldman in Slow Horses

To what extent do you personally identify with Jackson Lamb? Well, it’s weird, in a way. I’ve played all sorts of crazy people in my career. But I started — in film, at least — with Sid and Nancy, which is a London character. And I sort of had my own accent in it. I…

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