Interviews

24 years ago, Mira Sorvino won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite. Her career skyrocketed in the 1990s but came to a sudden halt when she accused a now-jailed studio boss of sexual misconduct.

Argentine screenwriter and director, Armando Bo, 41, makes his debut on the small screen with the Amazon Prime series, El Presidente, in which he explores the infamous 2015 FIFA corruption scandal involving soccer officials around the world who were found guilty of racketeering and mail fraud.  This acclaimed dramedy follows Sergio Jadue (Andres Parra), the head of a small Chilean football club, who becomes a key player in the scandal.

Jamie Harris has established himself as one of the top British actors in Hollywood, having inhabited a wide range of characters in a career that has taken him from stage to television and motion pictures. Jamie landed his first film role opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in In The Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan.

In the fall of 1997, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls allowed a film crew to follow them as they went for their sixth NBA title in eight seasons. The result was The Last Dance, the critically acclaimed 10-episode docuseries from ESPN Sports, Netflix and Mandalay Sports Media, culled from almost 500 hours of raw footage, which includes more than 20 hours of new interviews with Jordan as well as hundreds more with his teammates from that era.

One is a former First Lady who almost became the US President, the other is a brutally honest stand-up comedian who completed a national tour suffering from morning sickness. What could Hillary Clinton and Amy Schumer have in common? Turns out they are friends, and both have given audiences an intimate peek into their lives with behind-the-scenes high-profile documentaries.

After winning three Golden Globes and becoming one of the world’s biggest movie stars, Aussie actress Cate Blanchett is the latest performer to gravitate towards the small screen, appearing in not one but two limited TV series in 2020. Her first role was playing conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly in the limited series Mrs.

From Ugly Betty and Devious Maids to Whiskey Cavalier and beyond, Ana Ortiz has been a firm fixture on the small screen for close to two decades. Alongside a variety of big-screen roles and animated projects, the acclaimed actress is also no stranger to live theater across the globe.

Steven Soderbergh, 57, is always on the cutting edge. 30-plus years after the Sundance debut of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, 20 years since his Best Director Oscar for Traffic and almost 10 years from the prophetic Contagion, the director, writer, producer, and cinematographer is promoting Beats, by young director Brian Welsh.

Netflix’s four-part dramatic TV-series Unorthodox is partly a true story, based on author Deborah Feldman’s memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, published in 2012. But when Alexa Karolinski and Anna Winger adapted the book into a TV-series, the three women all agreed to transform the story and make it partly fictitious.

Will Ferrell got the idea for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga in 1998 when he was visiting Sweden for the first time with his then-future wife, Viveca Paulin. He was amazed by the European song contest and was captivated by how theatrical it was and how excitingly the voting process was presented.