HFPA in Conversation

Golden Globe winner Matt Bomer delved deep into his new character on the TV show The Sinner: he participated with his castmates in a dream analysis workshop. “We got up and did exercises in front of each other.

Rosario Dawson takes us on a journey of questions in the anthology crime series Briarpatch.  Actress, producer, director, and activist, Dawson started her career as a teenager in the film Kids and has been acting ever since.

Austrian actress Valerie Pachner was surprised when she got the role in Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life. “I still have this feeling of what a wonderful coincidence that Terrence Malick decided to do a film about an Austrian story with German-speaking actors,” Pachner told HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser.

British filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson was looking for a new movie for a while after the box office hit Fifty Shades of Grey. “It was crazy.

Last year has been quite hectic for Australian actor Liv Hewson, working on TV shows  - Top of the Lake, Marvel’s Inhumans and Santa Clarita Diet - and movies - Let It Snow and Bombshell. Storytelling has always been important to them.

Multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director Mark Duplass studied English and Film in college.   “I was born in 1976 in the South and I went to Catholic schools there with all boys and it was a very conservative environment.

Sometimes hope is the worst thing you can give. Jamie Foxx learned that when he was visiting death row for the movie Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story.

Barry Adelman, dcp’s Executive Vice President for Television, has overseen the Golden Globes’ for over 25 years, first as a writer and soon after as an executive producer. He learned a valuable lesson early on:  “The one thing we all learned together during that time was when something is happening let it happen.

On the TV show Living with Yourself, Paul Rudd plays a man who wants to be a better version of himself. It deals with the distance of a married couple and depression in an unusual way.

Golden Globe winner Kevin Bacon sat down with HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser and talked about how he met his wife and his latest role on the TV show City on a Hill - among many other things. “Sometimes when you do a television series for over multiple episodes, especially if it’s a crime show, there’s certain episodes, certain scenes where you kind of figure that you’re just advancing the plot as opposed to actually delving into character stuff but with this show, my character is so fascinating to me.