Podcast

Golden Globe winner Hugh Grant returned to TV to play Jeremy Thorpe, a member of the British parliament, on Amazon’s limited series A Very English Scandal.  It’s his second collaboration with director Stephen Frears -  the first one was the movie Florence Foster Jenkins.

Playing William Shakespeare’s King Lear for the second time was a dream come true for Sir Anthony Hopkins. “My relationship with Shakespeare's a little bumpy.

Before Bob Odenkirk was known as Saul Goodman, the beloved shady lawyer from Breaking Bad, he was a comedy writer from Naperville, a suburb of Chicago. “I'm from a family of seven kids, and we entertained each other at the dinner table and there was a lot of storytelling.

Ryan Murphy taught Billy Porter to dream the impossible.   Like being a leading character on a network television show, Pose, that is about his community.

Lately, she has been in the headlines because of the #metoo movement, fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment and addressing fat-shaming on her new Netflix TV show Insatiable.   In this podcast, Alyssa Milano – known for TV series like Who’s the Boss, Melrose Place, Charmed, and Mistresses – tells HFPA journalist Helen Hoehne how she became the person she is today.

Tomorrow Never Dies, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha are just a few of the hit movies Michelle Yeoh has starred.   The Malaysian-born actress has paved the way for younger Asian actors.

HFPA journalist Diederik van Hoogstraten met with renowned stage, film and TV actress and Golden Globe winner Glenn Close to talks about a variety of topics, ranging from her latest role to the #metoo movement, the constitution, mental health and our current administration.  In the drama, The Wife Close plays a woman who questions her own path in life after sacrificing so much to support her husband’ - a Nobel Prize-winning writer, career.

Director-producer Stanley Kramer’s legacy lives on through his widow Karen Sharpe and daughter Kat Kramer. They walked down memory lane and share stories from old Hollywood with HFPA journalist Silvia Bizio.

Will & Grace star and Golden Globe nominee  Debra Messing got together with HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser at the London hotel in West Hollywood. Messing talked about how she will celebrate her 50th birthday,  reflected on her life experiences as a young woman, and how she found a meaningful purpose to her life in college and later became a Global Health Ambassador for Populations Services International, which led her to visit HIV prevention programs in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

She is known for socially conscious TV shows like Ugly Betty and Transparent, but Judith Light didn’t search specifically for those projects.  Regardless of who she is playing, the character has to be important to her, Light told HFPA journalist Gabriel Lerman at the Rogers and Cowan office in Century City.