Tom Holland is going to the garden centre

The Independent’s entertainment newsletter [SUBSCRIBE]( [SUBSCRIBE]( June 10, 2023 [View in browser](   Tom Holland announced this week that he’s going to spend the next year playing golf and going to garden centres. And do you know what? Good for him. He made the decision after starring in The Crowded Room on Disney+, in which he played a man involved in a shooting, and [said that the role “did break me”](. In this week’s State of the Arts, Louis Chilton writes that the Spider-Man actor is setting [a healthy precedent for other Hollywood stars by taking time out to care for his well-being](. Tom Holland is going to be spending more time at the garden centre for the next year (AFP/Getty) Someone else who cares about work/life balance is [our Saturday Interviewee Josh Hartnett](. He spoke to Adam White about the fact that he’s quite happy going at a slower pace, ahead of his appearance in the new series of Black MIiror. Elsewhere this week, Tom Murray [talked to Hank Azaria about his controversial new show The Idol](, Annabel Nugent was given a tour of Jenny Lewis’s very cool house, and Charlotte Cripps found out [how Hannah Rothschild’s life inspires her novels](. Oh, and Love Island is back. Are you watching? There’s a noticeable lack of enthusiasm about this year’s show, and Isobel Lewis wrote about the fact that the dating show [really doesn’t feel like our type on paper anymore](. Enjoy the lovely weather, Jessie [@jessiecath](   What to do this weekend Books | [A Fortunate Woman by Polly Morland]( I've just finished reading this gorgeous book by documentary maker Polly Morland, which was shortlisted for last year's Baillie Gifford Prize. After finding her mother's old copy of John Berger's A Fortunate Man, which reported on the life of a country doctor, Morland realised that the village the doctor had looked after was the same village she herself now lived in. So she decided to track the life of the woman who was now running the general practice, and found a compelling, very human story about the imporance of nurturing relationships. Oh, and it's full of beautiful photographs too. Jessie Thompson | Arts editor [@jessiecath](   Theatre | [Groundhog Day]( You may feel like you've seen it before... and maybe you have. Tim Minchin's musical adaptation of the classic Bill Murray film, about a man who lives the same day over and over again, is back at the Old Vic. Andy Karl reprises his role as weatherman Phil Connors. Jessie Thompson | Arts editor [@jessiecath](   Film | [Medusa Deluxe]( Anyone bemoaning the stiff, oddly retiree-focused landscape of British cinema will find a balm here, in the best hairdressing-competition-murder-mystery this country has ever produced. Sneakily shot as if in one long, single take, Medusa Deluxe begins with the discovery of a scalped hairdresser before introducing a rogues gallery of scissor-happy suspects. A model investigates the crime, hair is piled high atop heads, and TRESemmé hairspray becomes a very effective form of mace. Director Thomas Hardiman, here making his directorial debut, is one to watch. In cinemas now Adam White | Film editor [@__adamwhite](   TV | [Sarah Beeny vs Cancer]( In this deeply personal documentary, broadcaster and property expert Beeny welcomes cameras into her home just two weeks after three cancerous lumps were discovered in her left breast. We follow Beeny at various stages of chemotherapy, and at one point she is shown sitting in her car after doing the school run, pulling out clumps of her remaining hair. It’s piercingly sad, sometimes funny, and well worth your time. On Channel 4 at 9pm on Monday Ellie Harrison | TV editor [@Ellie_Harrison](   Books | [Nic Fiddian-Green through the lens of Hugo Burnand]( Fresh from the triumph of the coronation, [royal photographer Hugo Burnand]( is galloping to his next project. Over a nine-year period, he has been working with Nic Fiddian Green, capturing the artist at work as he creates his strikingly powerful sculptures of horses' heads. As well as shots of Fiddian Green at work, there are evocative images of the sculptures around the world, from the sprawling green surrounds of Chatsworth House to the starlit uplands of the Italian countryside. Jessie Thompson | Arts editor [@jessiecath](     [The Saturday Interview – Josh Hartnett]( [Oscars image]( Josh Hartnett stars in the new series of 'Black Mirror' (Getty) This week, Adam White [sat down for a chat about dystopias with Josh Hartnett](. The Hollywood star appears in the latest series of Black Mirror, and discussed technology, his career trajectory, and finally getting to work with Christopher Nolan. Hartnett in 'Black Mirror' (Nick Wall/Netflix) Read an extract from our Saturday Interview below… It’s the curse of being an actor who’s really, really, ridiculously good-looking: you will be pushed as a leading man whether you like it or not. When he arrived in Los Angeles in 1997, at the insistence of a manager who spotted him acting in a play at home in Minnesota, Hartnett found work immediately. There was a short-lived US remake of Robbie Coltrane’s Cracker, followed by a Halloween sequel playing Jamie Lee Curtis’s son, then The Faculty, as a teen drug pusher warding off an alien invasion. Hartnett turned 20 on the set of The Virgin Suicides in 1999, with Sofia Coppola presenting him with a bottle of wine as a gift. Its label read: “Congratulations, you’re not a teen heartthrob anymore.” But that was wishful thinking. Hartnett was stuck in pin-up roles for longer than he wanted, his team pushing him as a tween idol via Pearl Harbor (2001), the Yorkshire-set hairdressing comedy Blow Dry (2001), and 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002), in which his character gave up sex for Lent. One magazine cover replaced the first half of his surname with a love-heart symbol. Another came plastered with words no aspiring serious actor wants to be associated with: “Free Josh Poster Inside!” [Read the full interview here](   Weekend Shelf-Care Weekend Shelf-Care Victoria Richards It turns out my colleague Victoria Richards is not just a brilliant journalist and lovely person – she's also an extremely talent writer of short stories. Her first collection, Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep... But We Don't Mind, has just come out and is full of clever, magical reflections on womanhood, as well as beautiful, startling images (did I mention she's a poet too?). A book I recently read and loved is… I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins – dark, turbulent autofiction about female fury... taking in the trappings of motherhood, domesticity and the suffocating, inescapable intensity of family legacy. It captivated and repulsed me, in equal measure. My three fantasy literary dinner party guests would be… Deborah Levy, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath. Not finishing books: my stance is… Always finish the book. At the very least, you'll learn something. My writing routine is… Getting seized with an idea in the middle of the night and scribbling it down in the 'notes' section of my iPhone. 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