Out of the Archives

Dennis Quaid, Golden Globe nominee for Far From Heaven by Todd Haynes and for the TV movie The Special Relationship in which he played Bill Clinton, will next play Ronald Reagan in the 2022 movie Reagan. In these times of increased anti-Asian hatred, we go back to 1990, when Quaid was interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press for Come See the Paradise, written and directed by Alan Parker.

Diane Kruger, born in West Germany, trained as a ballerina, moved to Paris at 17 to work as a fashion model, married French actor Guillaume Canet, acted in his directorial debut Mon Idole (2002). She was cast in the American films Wicker Park with Josh Hartnett, Troy with Brad Pitt as Achilles and Eric Bana as Hector, National Treasure with Nicolas Cage.

Leonardo DiCaprio was first directed by Martin Scorsese in Gangs of New York (2002), then in The Aviator (2004), winning a Golden Globe as Best Actor for playing Howard Hughes. He went on to work in The Departed (2006) set in Boston, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) for which he won a Golden Globe.

Keanu Reeves reprises his iconic role as Neo in The Matrix Resurrections (2021), the much-awaited follow-up to The Matrix (1999) directed by Lana Wachowski. Keanu launched his Neo in the first movie of the franchise, The Matrix in 1999, and its two sequels released six months apart in 2003, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, written and directed by the Wachowskis, costarring Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity and Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus.

George Clooney – nominated 13 times, recipient of three Golden Globes and the 2015 Cecil B. deMille Award- spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about the importance of journalism during an exclusive interview for the movie he co-wrote (with Grant Heslov) and directed Good Night, and Good Luck.

In 1995 Sandra Bullock was interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about While You Were Sleeping, a romantic comedy directed by Jon Turtletaub, in which she plays a Chicago Transit token collector who saved a man’s life. That performance earned her the first of five Golden Globe nominations as Best Actress.

Ben Affleck set the story of Good Will Hunting (1997) in Boston, when he wrote the script with his childhood friend Matt Damon, which earned them a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. When the actor made his directorial debut in 2007, he chose to adapt the 1998 novel by Dennis Lehane Gone Baby Gone, set in his hometown of Boston.

Willem Dafoe spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1988 about playing Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ directed by Martin Scorsese from the 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. “It seems like the most logical thing to do would be to read the source material, but I didn’t, which is interesting, because I didn't want to burden myself with any expectations or be influenced by any images, so you try to free yourself from them as much as possible.

When we met Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on October 1, 2015, she already was beyond Lady Gaga, the musical sensation – she was taking her first steps on the perilous Hollywood acting road. A year later, in 2016, Lady Gaga would collect her first Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Television Motion Picture for her work as The Countess in American Horror Story: Hotel.

Rosamund Pike, Golden Globe best actress winner for I Care a Lot, and nominee for Gone Girl and A Private War, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2005 about playing Jane opposite Keira Knightley as Elizabeth in Pride & Prejudice directed by Joe Wright from the 1813 novel by Jane Austen. “I know I was given the book Pride and Prejudice when I was about thirteen, but I am not sure that I finished it, because I definitely remember the beginning much more clearly than the end.