On Music

Actor, producer, director, author of 37 children's books and twice Golden Globe winner, Henry Winkler is quick to credit the fortunate part of Fonzy, which he played in the 255 episodes of Happy Days, for his international success and fledging career. He can be seen now in the new TV series Barry, in which he plays a demanding acting teacher to a conflicted professional assassin (Bill Hader).

A six-time Golden Globe winner, English-born actress Angela Lansbury had a long and successful career in film and television, but it was the singing and dancing on stage that built her fan base. Did she ever use music to get into character?“To be honest, no, I don’t think I have ever used it.

British stage actor James Corden met up with instantaneous success when he accepted to lead The Late Late Show. His passion for music, karaoke and sing-along got him to land a fantastic spot driving to work and singing with stars like Madonna, Adele, Elton John and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

We met Golden Globe winner Gillian Anderson for a conversation about the latest revival season of The X-Files, the show that gave her a Golden Globe and her first big break in show business. Anderson lives in London, where she also appeared in many plays in the West End.

Twice Golden Globe nominee Alicia Vikander will surprise her fans in her upcoming movie, Tomb Raider. Vikander trained like an Olympian athlete to become the iconic action heroine, but music is always an inspiration for her roles.

Hugh Grant - multiple nominee and a Golden Globe winner is quick to say that he doesn’t love music like most people do, and he is funny about it: “Music makes me sad, so I can only really tolerate ABBA. ”But does music ever help him with his acting?, we asked Hugh, now at your local multiplex with Paddington II.

When we asked our Cecil B. deMille recipient and eight-time Golden Globe winner Meryl Streep if she ever relies on music to get into character, she had a very original way to describe the music that helped her in The Post.

Timothée Chalamet, this year s acting sensation with a fresh Golden Globe nomination for best actor for his starring role in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name is extremely enthusiastic about how music helps him with his craft:“Music plays a really, really, really big role in all of the acting I do.   For the fireplace scene in this film (Call Me By Your Name) I had a little earpiece, that's playing the song (Sufjan Stevens’ “Visions of Gideon”) the entire time so it kind of it gave sort of the mechanism or barometer by which to know okay, how is this song going, where are the arcs of the song here.

Multi-talented four-time Golden Globe winner Tom Hanks - who plays the legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in Steven Spielberg’s The Post - cannot live without music while on the set. “I cannot be in a trailer by myself on a movie…they say we don’t need you for an hour and 45 minutes, I’ve got to have music playing.

Raised in West Virginia, Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner loves bluegrass- more often than not, that’s what’s she’s listening on her headphones when she is on set. Things were different on the set of her latest movie, The Tribes of Palos Verdes, where she takes a very dramatic turn playing the wife and mother of two old teenagers on the edge of a nervous breakdown.