Out of the Archives

Michelle Williams, a twice Golden Globe winner for her acting out of six nominations, plays the mother (Paul Dano is the father) in The Fabelmans (2022) directed by Steven Spielberg. We went back into our extensive archives of exclusive HFPA interviews to report what the young actress said when she first spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in the year 2000 at the age of 19 about the TV movie sequel If These Walls Could Talk 2.

Anne Hathaway won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress in a musical in 2013 for her performance as Fantine in Les Misérables, directed by Tom Hooper with Hugh Jackman playing Jean Valjean, which would later earn her an Academy Award.  She gave the first of many exclusive interviews to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2001, when she was only 18, talking about her feature film debut in The Princess Diaries, directed by Garry Marshall, and co-starring Julie Andrews.

Whoopi Goldberg stars in and is a co-producer of Till (2022) written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu. In 1986 she won a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Drama for her movie debut in The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg from the 1982 novel by Alice Walker.

Golden Globe nominee Pierce Brosnan, who took over the iconic role of James Bond created by Ian Fleming, after Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton had played him, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about his interpretation of Secret Agent 007 in Goldeneye (1995) directed by Martin Campbell, the timely topics of Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) by Roger Spottiswood, and The World is Not Enough (1999) by Michael Apted. He would reprise the role a fourth and last time in Die Another Day (2002) by Lee Tamahori.

Kevin Kline, a five times Golden Globe nominee is costarring with Sigourney Weaver in The Good House. In 1987 Kline spoke about apartheid in South Africa, during an exclusive interview with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about the movie Cry Freedom directed by Richard Attenborough, costarring Denzel Washington.

Bette Midler won one of her four Golden Globes out of eight nominations in 1992 as Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for the movie For the Boys. directed by Mark Rydell costarring James Caan.

Russell Crowe won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a drama in 2002 for his portrayal of mathematician John Nash in A Beautiful Mind directed by Ron Howard.  During exclusive 2000 and 2001 interviews with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press, he talked about schizophrenia and mental illness.

Helen Mirren won a Golden Globe in 2006 as Best Actress in a drama for The Queen directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Peter Morgan with Michael Sheen playing Prime Minister Tony Blair. When Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8, the British actress wrote on her Instagram: "We mourn a woman, who, with or without the crown, was the epitome of nobility.

Golden Globe nominee Adrien Brody portrays playwright Arthur Miller alongside Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, in Blonde, premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Brody was nominated for Best Actor-Motion Picture-Drama for The Pianist (2002) directed by Roman Polanski and spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2007 about what he learned from traveling in India while shooting The Darjeeling Limited directed by Wes Anderson.

Mark Wahlberg has been very busy this year – he  starred in Uncharted with Tom Holland, Father Stu, and now, Me Time with Kevin Hart. Wahlberg received two Golden Globe nominations for his acting performances in The Departed (2006) directed by Martin Scorsese and The Fighter (2010) by David O.