Shakira’s 2002: the MTV-era ‘No Creo’ lyric that name-checks Karl Marx, the Laundry Service breakthrough, the VMAs stage and the Mongoose tour, and her 2026 work.

Steven Seagal plays ex-agent William Lansing in Out of Reach (2004), directed by Po-Chih Leong. The character, the key moments, the reception and Seagal’s recent work.

David Harbour plays Brian, the envelope-pushing fellow screenwriter in Richard Levine’s 2010 dramedy Every Day, a small role in a film about a TV writer at a crossroads.

Jacob Ericksson played Christer Malm in The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009). A look at the role, the stage-trained actor behind it and what the part meant for his career.

Cameron Diaz plays Amanda Woods in Nancy Meyers’s The Holiday (2006): the workaholic trailer-maker, her Dior shearling coat, and what the role meant for Diaz.

Ivana Baquero’s first film role was Ana in Paco Plaza’s 2004 horror drama Romasanta. How the part launched the girl who became Pan’s Labyrinth’s Ofelia.

Giovanni Esposito plays Coppa, the interpreter in The Tourist (2010), a Venice-set spy romance with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. The part and the film around it.

Rhys Darby plays Angus ‘The Nut’ Nutsford, the ship’s fool on Radio Rock, in Richard Curtis’s 2009 pirate radio comedy The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio).

William Daniels, the original voice of KITT, plays Commissioner Ebbers in the 2007 skating comedy Blades of Glory. See where it sits in his career.

Tom Cruise returned as Ethan Hunt in John Woo’s Mission: Impossible II (2000). How the role changed, what the film asked of him and what it led to.