HFPA in Conversation

Golden Globe winner Laura Linney describes Netflix’s Ozark as a family drama that deals with money laundering. “It’s a bit of a thriller and goes a bit of the subterranean deep dive on identity and who we are and why we are who we are,” she tells HFPA journalist Alexander Nevsky.

Kaitlyn Dever received her first Golden Globe nomination last year for her role on Netflix’s limited series Unbelievable. She can now be seen as nurse Sharynn Tarrows in director Jay Roach's film Coastal Elites, on HBO (she will soon in the anthology series Monsterland, on hulu).

On our 150th episode Jim Parsons, who rose to worldwide fame as Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory and as Rock Hudson’s agent Henry Wilson on Netflix’s Hollywood, told HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann about his passion for The Boys in the Band. It started as a play in 1968 by Mart Crowley followed by a film two years later directed by William Friedkin.

On our 150th episode Jim Parsons, who rose to worldwide fame as Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory and as Rock Hudson’s agent Henry Wilson on Netflix’s Hollywood, told HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann about his passion for The Boys in the Band. It started as a play in 1968 by Mart Crowley followed by a film two years later directed by William Friedkin.

Golden Globe-winning producer, director and writer Jay Roach has a desire of making people smile and connect them with storytelling. His work includes dramas like Recount, Game Change, and Bombshell, as well as comedies like Austin Powers, Meet the Parents, and Meet the Fockers.

In his new HBO Max series Raised by Wolves, Ridley Scott leaps forward in time to the end of humanity on Earth and shoots off to a faraway planet where humanity is to be restarted. He explores themes that are familiar from his previous work: androids, religion versus science, the fallibility of both human and non-human nature.

Two-time Golden Globe winner Hilary Swank plays an astronaut bound to Mars on the Netflix series Away. “Emma Green is an astronaut commanding a mission to Mars.

Paul Mescal went to Trinity College in Dublin like his character Connell on Hulu's limited series Normal People, based on Sally Rooney's best-selling novel of the same name. “Connell would be more academically inclined than I would be.

Monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself are prohibited on Peacock’s series Brave New World,  based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley. Alden Ehrenreich plays John the Savage in a society where drugs and free love are normal.

Let’s talk about sex: Asa Butterfield stars in the Netflix series Sex Education. He plays Otis Milburn, an insecure teenager who starts to give sex advice to his fellow students.