Patrick Smith

The star of ‘This Life’ may hate actors ‘sounding off’ about politics, but he has strong views on everything from Brexit and Andrew Tate to soaring London ticket prices. As his new play about the NHS opens in the West End, the New York resident speaks to Patrick Smith about feeling like a ‘seedy uncle’ on the set of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and how social media ‘ruined everything’

As the final season of his hitman comedy-drama ‘Barry’ airs, ‘Saturday Night Live’ hero Bill Hader talks to Patrick Smith about stage fright, Star Wars, and the roles he’d no longer play

Phoebe Bridgers puts on one of the performances of the day for her Glastonbury debut, joined by Arlo Parks who’d earlier delivered her own sublime set

The stage and screen star talks to Patrick Smith about the final season of ‘Ozark’, falling in love, ‘Love Actually’, and why suppressing the LGBT+ community does a disservice to everyone

Concluding our series of first-hand accounts of life in tents, Patrick Smith recalls the way that festivals such as End of the Road and Primavera have helped him through bad times, from heartbreak to grief to crushing depression

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