NPR's A Martínez speaks with Kenneth Branagh {BRAN-uh} about playing an ex-KGB agent who teams up with a stranded U.S. Navy pilot, played by Ryan Reynolds, in the Cold War action-comedy film "Mayday." ...

Sir Kenneth Branagh has played the cowardly wizard Gilderoy Lockhart in "Harry Potter," the mustache-wearing detective Hercule Poirot and, of course, the prince of Denmark. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "HAMLET ...