Articles about Alex Hassell
Team building
Rivals, Mary & George, Kaos, Bridgerton and The Tattooist of Auschwitz meant 2024 was a stellar year for television – and for casting director Kelly Valentine Hendry. She tells DQ about her approach to her role, self-taped auditions and why TV must continue to take risks.
Five Minutes With… Alex Hassell
The Rivals star talks Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, playing the “intimidating” showjumper-turned-politician Rupert Campbell-Black and why actors should be brave enough to take on challenging roles.
Love, power and Rivals
Disney+ brings high drama and romance with Rivals, an adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper’s novel. DQ visits the set to meet the stars and creative team behind this lavish, witty exploration of 1980s duelling egos in the fictional county of Rutshire.
Disney+ out to beat Rivals
TRAILER: Alex Hassell, David Tennant, Aidan Turner and Bella Maclean lead a starry cast in Rivals, an adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel coming to Disney+ and Hulu in the US on October 18.
Disney+ lines up Rivals
FIRST LOOK: Here’s Alex Hassell, David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Nafessa Williams, Katherine Parkinson and Bella Maclean in Rivals, the upcoming Hulu and Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel of the same name.
Return of the space cowboy
British actor Alex Hassell recalls the boot camps and fight choreography he faced to get into character as the antagonist in Cowboy Bebop, Netflix’s thrilling space Western based on the Japanese anime of the same name.