This week Jason Solomons meets the Hollywood A-lister John Cusack. Portraying the great gothic American writer Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven, Cusack discusses his love of Poe and the influence the writer has had on the horror genre in cinema.
Cusack also discusses his career to date, which includes lead roles in such films as Woody Allen's Bullets over Broadway, Stephen Frears' The Grifters and Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich.
This is an audio version of Jason Solomons' feature interview to be published in the Observer on Sunday 18 March.