Live By Night: F*** you, Ben Affleck.

It's that time of year again, guys. Glitzy dresses, best dressed lists, a barrage of celebrity interviews, and red-carpet coverage.

Awards season.

There are shivers down my spine.Predictably, as an actor, it's one of my favourite times of the year. A time to be inspired, to rejoice over my favourite films of the year being nominated for the coveted Golden Globes, and to keep practising my ever-evolving Oscar speech.

And here's been a lot of films this year that I've loved! (Three guesses: all of them La La Land).

Annnddd . . . there's been a few that have needed me to be forcibly removed from the cinema screen.

Cut to: Live by Night.

La La Land: What is success?

Spontaneous trips to the cinema are my thing. My other half and I have cinema memberships, which allow us to go and see an unlimited number of films for "free" (it's free when we see them, but it does cost us a £20 membership fee, mind). So cinema trips and I are quite a couple; we're romantic, we're nostalgic, we treat each other right. I treasure trips to the big screen, watching my favourite actors and being inspired.


Last night I went to see La La Land. It tells the tale of two aspiring, down on their luck artists in LA. It has every cliché in the book, but God do I love a cliché.