Out of the Archives

Angela Bassett won a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical for playing Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It.   She spoke about her role to Hollywood Foreign Press journalists in 1993.

Denzel Washington, honored with the Cecil B. deMille award at the 2016 Golden Globes, talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1987 about Cry Freedom (1987) directed by Richard Attenborough.

Gary Oldman, Golden Globe nominee as Best Actor in a drama for playing Citizen Kane’s screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz in Mank by David Fincher, spoke with journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1995 about The Scarlett Letter, directed by Roland Joffé from the 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, where he played Arthur Dimmesdale opposite Demi Moore as Hester Prynne. “I get very much linked and associated with the people that I play, maniacs, crazy policemen and psychopaths, so there’s a strange perception of me out there in the world that I must be a crazy maniac, and I’m not.

Evan Rachel Wood, who recently acted in Kajillionaire, written and directed by Miranda July, and completed three seasons of the TV series Westworld, was first interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2003 when she was 15- years old and talked about playing a troubled teenager in Thirteen directed by Catherine Hardwick. “Unfortunately, I could relate to the character and to the story pretty well.

Kevin Bacon is currently playing a corrupt FBI agent in the TV series City on a Hill. In 1994 he spoke to HFPA journalists in Montana about The River Wild, where he played the villain opposite Meryl Streep, and Apollo 13 directed by Ron Howard.

Cate Blanchett spoke with HFPA journalists in 2004 about playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator directed by Martin Scorsese, with Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes. “Kate Hepburn was a deeply private woman, so we were trying to unlock the human being while also watching her body of work and paying nods to certain performances.

Mark Ruffalo, 2021 Golden Globe winner as Best Actor for the TV series I Know This Much Is True, spoke about religion to HFPA journalists in 2004. “I grew up in a household that had three religions in it, (born-again) Christianity, Catholicism and Bahai'ism, so there were different viewpoints and a lot of debate about that, and I immediately began to understand that all these people that I loved very much had very strong feelings about faith, but all of them were valid to me.

Donald Sutherland played Tim Hutton’s father in Ordinary People directed by Robert Redford. It was from a script by Alvin Sargent based on the 1976 novel by Judith Guest.

When Harrison Ford met with HFPA journalists in 1986, he spoke about his character in The Mosquito Coast, directed by Peter Weir from the 1981 novel by Paul Theroux. “The film is fairly faithful to the spirit, to the intention of the book by Paul Theroux, the material that it came from, that was the genesis.

Jodie Foster spoke with HFPA journalists in 1991 about directing her first movie, Little Man Tate. “The thing about directing is that it is so intense, it takes such a long period of time and so much energy, that to have that kind of focus for over two years, you have to really love something and understand it absolutely from the ground up.