HFPA in Conversation

When she was a little girl, Germaine Franco played piano and drums.   Decades later she became the first Latina composer to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science music branch.

Writer-director-producer Gurinder Chadha wants the world to be a better place.   That comes across in her movies: Bhaji on the Beach, What’s Cooking?, Bend it Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice, Viceroy’s House and in her latest, Blinded by the Light.

It is a time to take risks.   That’s how Ramy Youssef described the success of his show to HFPA journalist Sam Asi.

The world got to know Eva Longoria as Gabrielle 'Gaby' Solis on Desperate Housewives.   She describes her eight seasons on Wisteria Lane as her film school.

When you meet Wyatt Russell’s character Sean 'Dud' Dudley for the first time on the TV series Lodge 49 he is at his lowest point, walking on the beach with a metal detector after the death of his father and the collapse of the family business. 'At the beginning Dud is idealizing his father and trying to become an idealistic version of his father.

Patty Jenkins is interested in people and emotions - that’s why she became a director and screenwriter.   Her next movie, Wonder Woman 1984, will be released next summer.

Comic-Con 2019 begins tonight and our podcast guest is a veteran of the sci-fi world.  George Takei became known around the world as Sulu, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) starship's helmsman.

On our 75th episode, Christine Baranski tells HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana how she feels playing Diane Lockhart - a liberal feminist lawyer - for over a decade. “It’s a wonderful revelation to go from The Good Wife to The Good Fight.

At first, Patricia Arquette couldn’t understand her character, abusive mother Dee Dee, on the miniseries The Act.   But as an actress, she had to.

From the quiet, cold and calculating political player Doug Stamper in House of Cards to the seasoned field officer Mike November in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan,  being 50 looks pretty good for repeat award nominee Michael Kelly. “Right before I finished House of Cards my team called and said we have this offer for you to go and join the cast of Jack Ryan,” Kelly tells HFPA journalist Henry Arnaud at ID’s office.