Arts Interview: Back in fashion

For a long time, Don Johnson's star faded from view, but now the actor is back in the big time, Interview: James Mottram.

It’s after 8.30pm when Don Johnson arrives, and the scene couldn’t be better set. We’re on the rooftop terrace of the Marriott hotel in Cannes, overlooking the Côte d’Azur, the glimmering waters littered with expensive yachts. He arrives with an impossibly tall, glamorous woman, dressed in heels and a white trouser suit. All we need is Jan Hammer’s synthesiser soundtrack playing in the background and it would be complete.

Yet this is not ...