HFPA in Conversation

Golden Globe-nominated Willem Dafoe is currently on screen portraying two very different characters. In Motherless Brooklyn he plays Paul Randolph, a mysterious man who wants to bring down a powerful developer.

Hildur Guðnadóttir has never questioned her passion for music. The Icelandic musician and composer grew up in a family of musicians and doctors.

Golden Globe-nominated Bradley Whitford understands why The Handmaid’s Tale  - in which he plays Commander Joseph Lawrence - fascinates people. “Part of the reason Handmaid’s Tale resonates is because misogyny is at the reptilian brainstem of white nationalist, rightwing ideology.

Edward Norton, like his character in Motherless Brooklyn, has an obsession with words. He got familiar with fictional private detective Lionel Essrog when he read Jonathan Lethem’s novel in 1999.

Allen Leech’s character Tom Branson has become the audience’s eye to discover an aristocratic lifestyle in Downton Abbey. On the Golden Globe-winning series Branson, a former chauffeur, a political rebel and the husband of late Lady Sybil Branson became an estate manager of Yorkshire country estate.

Todd Phillips has unknowingly worked towards Joker his entire career. “I think that’s a good way of putting it.

A two-time Golden Globe winner, Timothy Hutton is starring in a new TV show, Almost Family.   He plays a fertility doctor who has used his own sperm to conceive at least 100 children “It is based on some true stories.

Chernobyl creator and showrunner Craig Mazin became a screenwriter by accident. “I didn’t think of myself as a writer because I came from a very middle-class background.

Joey Soloway describes themself as a filmmaker, artist, activist and a co-founder of 50/50 by 2020, the movement that seeks equity and gender balance in Hollywood and is part of #timesup movement. Golden Globe-winning TV show Transparent, the story Soloway created based on their own experiences, is coming to its end.

Joey King earned her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Gypsy Rose on true crime series The Act.  HFPA journalist Helen Hoehne sat down with the actress who turned twenty in July.