Out of the Archives

Clint Eastwood spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1973 about playing San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan in Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry and Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post. “One critic made some remark about the first Dirty Harry being a Fascist masterpiece or something like that, but it wasn't that at all.

When Jamie Lee Curtis was interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1981, she spoke about her famous actor parents: her mother Janet Leigh and her father Tony Curtis. “My parents were really wonderful people.

Stevie Wonder, when interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1985, about his Golden Globe-winning song (and major evergreen hit) “I Just Called to Say I Love You” for the movie The Woman in Red directed by Gene Wilder, talked about apartheid. “Just to make the record straight, I did not say anything about the government of South Africa, because we are clear on where that's coming from already.

Anjelica Huston spoke with journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about the TV movie Iron Jawed Angels (2004) where she played Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of the American women’s suffrage movement. “I was rather remiss on my history of suffragettism.

Hugh Jackman spoke about acting when he met with journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press for X-Men (2000), where he played the mutant Wolverine. “I grew up in a pretty big family, and I felt different all the time from my brothers and sisters, especially from about eleven to fourteen, but probably the most different I felt was when I started acting.

Marlee Matlin, who won a Golden Globes as Best Actress for Children of Lesser God directed by Randa Haines, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1986 about growing up deaf. “I grew up with a hearing family, so we had both speech and sign language mixed together.

Forest Whitaker spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2006 about playing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. He won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Drama for this performance.

When the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press met Dwayne Johnson in 2002 to talk about his film debut in The Scorpion King, he still went by the nickname of The Rock. “The Rock is one of the nicknames I got from the WWF (World Wrestling Federation), and Brahma Bull comes from a tattoo that I have of a bull, which has become as symbolic and iconic of my character as The Rock because I have always liked bulls and I am a Taurus.

Cecil B. deMille recipient Morgan Freeman, interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1997 about Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg, spoke about the history of slavery in America.

Don Cheadle spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2004 about Hotel Rwanda directed by Terry George. “First and foremost, I hope that the film is entertaining and it's engaging to people.