Interviews

For the young six-year-old growing up in the Pacific Northwest, it was a nightly ritual to look up into the sky, stare at the stars, and dream that one day she would become an astronaut. While the career path for Hilary Swank would take a different path, some forty years later, the two-time Golden Globe and Oscar winner finally got her wish fulfillment.

Standup comedian-actor Patton Oswalt is primarily known for starring in The King of Queens and Agents of S. H.

It took almost half a century, millions of light-years traveled, and many intergalactic adventures on several USS Enterprise ships to boldly go where no man has gone before: to the lower decks in the animation, Star Trek: Lower Decks. Mike McMahan, the super fan of all things Star Trek has previously examined alien life forms in Rick and Morty and now adds his stamp to the “final frontier” universe, with the blessing of Rod Roddenberry, son of the franchise’s god Gene Roddenberry.

In the upcoming comedy Stage Mother, Jacki Weaver plays a small-town conservative choir director who discovers that her son, who had been ostracized from his family for being gay, has passed away. Upon arriving in San Francisco to pay her respects and close down his life, she learns that he was the owner of a drag bar and now she’s in charge of it.

Daniel Mays is no stranger to cop shows. The English actor has portrayed policemen in a string of iconic TV projects – including Line of Duty, Life on Mars and Born to Kill – and he’s back to being a detective in the new British comedy Code 404, but there’s a technical twist to the tale.

Esme Creed-Miles, 20, stars in the titular role in the Amazon series, Hanna. Based on the 2011 film of the same name, Hanna, a high concept thriller and coming of age drama, follows the journey of a young girl raised in total seclusion in a Polish forest.

Like many 7-year-olds, Jason Sudeikis spent numerous Saturday afternoons on his local soccer fields in Overland Park, Kansas, trying to score a goal. But any future in the game for the young boy was derailed when he discovered that his true love was for another sport, basketball, a love which would lead him some years later to win a scholarship in the sport at Fort Scott Community College.

There’s a long dynastic tradition in Hollywood of children following their famous parents into the industry. From Jane Fonda to Jamie Lee Curtis, Kate Hudson to Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Bridges to Ben Stiller, many have gone on to varying degrees of renown themselves in the film industry.

James Badge Dale, 42, is primarily known for his performances in CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, as well as AMC’s political thriller, Rubicon. Now he takes on the role of a lifetime as Sergeant Ray Abruzzo in the critically acclaimed series Hightown, for which he’s garnered rave reviews.

You know you must be having a surreal night when you pass by Frank Sinatra and don’t even notice the presence of the legend. But that’s exactly what happened to singer B.