Severance’s John Turturro on fans getting ‘intimate’ tattoos of him: ‘I don’t want to look at that’

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Will Poulter and Kit Connor on bonding with head-shaving and tattoos for Warfare

Helen Bushby Culture reporter Getty Images Will Poulter and Kit Connor are part of the cast for the film Warfare, about soldiers fighting in Iraq The young cast of Alex Garland’s film Warfare had to bond pretty quickly, to play a US military unit whose lives depended on each other, during the Iraq war in … Read more

Tattoos are being linked to some cancers. Are they really a risk?

Countries vary in how stringently they regulate chemicals in tattoo inks IvanRiver/Shutterstock Whether it is a butterfly on your ankle or your football team’s logo across your back, tattoos have long been seen as a way of expressing individuality, as well as sometimes having cultural significance. Yet research is just starting to scratch the surface … Read more