That's Entertainment: Baftas, Benedict Cumberbatch and Taylor Swift

[View in browser]( [The Independent]( [Culture] That's Entertainment: The Indy Arts Newsletter [Alexandra Pollard] Written by Alexandra Pollard | April 12, 2021 Hello, Welcome back to our new and improved arts newsletter! It's been a busy few days in the world of culture. Last night's Baftas continued this strange streak of awards ceremonies actually making good decisions. Two brilliant films, Nomadland and Promising Young Woman, took home the major wins, and I was thrilled to see Rocks' Bukky Bukray win the public-voted Rising Star Award, too. [Check out all the talking points here.]( Before we get on to this week's content, I should tell you that we've got some exciting interviews coming up. Last night, I zoomed queen of deadpan Aubrey Plaza, and we chatted about her thrilling new meta-drama Black Bear, as well as her legendary chat show appearances and her long campaign to get a lesbian romcom made. That interview will be running later this month. Last week, we ran [this fantastic interview with Benedict Cumberbatch,](whose new film The Mauritanian tells the real-life story of a Guantanamo Bay detainee. First Aid Kit's Johanna and Klara Soderberg “Hoping? I’m going to plead with the guy,” said Cumberbatch when our writer James Mottram asked if he hoped Joe Biden would close the barbaric detention centre. “It’s an atrocious own goal, I think, for the free world to be incarcerating people through extraordinary rendition, torturing them and extracting confessions they think are then usable in prosecution… it is a really dangerous, unnecessary and ineffectual place, I think, and enough people have suffered there.” Tell us what you're really thinking, Benedict. On the subject of The Mauritanian, [check out my interview with its star, The Serpent's Tahar Rahim if you missed it in the run up to Easter.]( On Friday, Taylor Swift dropped her new album, which is actually quite an old album, re-recorded for very complicated but important reasons [that you can read about in my review here.]( As always, keep scrolling for the weekly binge recommendation and our reviews of the week – and be sure to check out our [Saturday Interview]( with Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell, star and director of Promising Young Woman. Carey Mulligan, Emerald Fennell, Laverne Cox and Bo Burnham on the set of Promising Young Woman [Louis Theroux]( If you've already watched Theroux's latest documentary, Shooting Joe Exotic, in which he revisits his experience with the now-imprisoned Tiger King star, then now's the perfect time to binge his extensive and impressive back-catalogue, [all of which is on BBC iPlayer.]( Film of the week – [Sound of Metal]( A film of great beauty and great purpose, this Oscar-nominated drama is a triumphant rebuttal to films that represent disability as tales of quaint tragedy and saintly patience. Read the full review here TV show of the week – [Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic]( A year on from Netflix's Tiger King, here’s [Louis Theroux]( to remind us that he got there first. In this 90-minute one-off, Theroux examines his own experience with Exotic and wonders whether he could have done more. [Read the full review here]( Album of the week – [Taylor Swift – Fearless (Taylor's Version)]( In order to wrestle it from the clutches of Scooter Braun, the singer-songwriter has re-recorded, word for word and note for note, 2008's Fearless. [Read the full review here]( Stories you might like [Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell interview: ‘The experience of so many victims is that everyone wants you to let it go’]( [Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell interview: ‘The experience of so many victims is that everyone wants you to let it go’]( [12 of the shortest Oscars speeches ever delivered from Joe Pesci to Billy Wilder]( 12 of the shortest Oscars speeches ever delivered from Joe Pesci to Billy Wilder]( The full Independent perspective Save 30% when you subscribe today. 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