2022 in TVHouse of the DragonInterview‘I was hot-glue-gunning hair to my head’: Emma D’Arcy on their House of the Dragon auditionHollie RichardsonFrom viral cocktails to being scared to Google themself, the actor’s role as Rhaenyra Targaryen in the Game of Thrones prequel has made them huge. They talk violence, childbirth – and why those incest scenes are OK Emma D’Arcy achieved a lot in 2022, but going viral was the least expected.

‘Michelangelo thought it all through – the shroud has been cast aside’ … The Risen Christ, 1521. Photograph: Alessandro Vasari‘Michelangelo thought it all through – the shroud has been cast aside’ … The Risen Christ, 1521. Photograph: Alessandro VasariJonathan Jones on artSculptureIn all his glory: Michelangelo's naked Christ comes to BritainMichelangelo dared to sculpt Jesus naked, but for centuries the church covered him up with a bizarre metal veil. Now the National Gallery is revealing all

10 of the bestFilm adaptationsBen Wheatley’s new version of the gothic thriller Rebecca joins an impressive list of big-screen Du Maurier adaptations 10. The Years Between (1946)Valerie Hobson plays the wife of a British MP (Michael Redgrave), who learns her husband has been killed in the second world war. Just as she is getting to grips with her loss, preparing to marry a neighbouring farmer and taking up her late husband’s seat in parliament (where Churchill is impressed by her maiden speech), he turns up alive.

Shia LaBeoufShia LaBeouf mulls plan to become deacon after Catholic confirmation Actor, 37, received sacrament on New Year’s Eve and Capuchin friar Alexander Rodriguez says he wishes to be a deacon ‘in the future’ The Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf is seeking to becoming a Catholic deacon after receiving the sacrament of confirmation on New Year’s Eve. A California-based chapter of the Capuchin Franciscans, a Catholic religious order, shared the news in a Facebook post on Tuesday alongside photos of the 37-year-old actor smiling next to several of the organization’s members.

TelevisionBridgerton’s Queen Charlotte and its imitators have been praised for bringing diversity to the very white world of historical drama. But could these Black fantasies actually be dangerous? Fantasy collided with reality last month, when the Black British actor Adjoa Andoh, who plays Bridgerton’s Lady Danbury, was invited by ITV to commentate on King Charles’s coronation. Andoh described the lineup of waving royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony as “terribly white”.