Cuba Gooding Jr. says he had been preparing his entire life to win an Oscar, which he did in 1997 for Jerry Maguire – but he wasn’t prepared for what to do afterwards. Some very, very bad moves, and movies, followed. “But in recent years Gooding has been clawing his way back. In 2016, he returned to global attention with the acclaimed Ryan Murphy series The People v OJ Simpson; now he’s leading a London revival of the musical Chicago, playing the male lead, lawyer Billy Flynn.”