Vintage Globes

Rachel Weisz spoke to HFPA journalists about her Jewish parents who fled to England to escape the Nazi occupation of their countries during World War II, when we first interviewed her in 1997, then in 1999 and 2001. “My parents were born in Eastern Europe, my mother in Vienna and my father in Budapest.

Ben Kingsley won two Golden Globes in 1983, as New Star of the Year and as best actors in a drama for Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough. In 1982 he talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about playing the charismatic Indian leader.

Michelle Rodriguez, a fixture of the Fast and Furious franchise since 2001, spoke with HFPA journalists in 2000 about her film debut in Girlfight, written and directed by Karyn Kusama, where she played a teenage boxer. “Karyn made me watch Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, and I was really impressed by his composure, then, later on, I did happen to see, Apocalypse Now and I was like, ‘Wow, this guy is pretty amazing.

Alfre Woodard spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1992 and 1993 about Bopha!, directed by Morgan Freeman, where she played the wife of a Black policeman (Danny Glover) in South Africa during apartheid. Bopha is a Zulu word meaning arrest, imprison.

After his successful turn as attorney Victor Sifuentes in the TV drama L. A.

Emma Thompson was interviewed numerous times by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press. This is what she said in 1997 about her mother, actress Phyllida Law, her costar in The Winter Guest directed by Alan Rickman.

Samuel L. Jackson played a philandering Louisiana doctor in Eve’s Bayou written and directed by Kasi Lemmon.

Debbie Allen won a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a TV series for Fame. She was interviewed by journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1982.

Laurence Fishburne talked to journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1993 about playing Ike Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It opposite Angela Bassett as Tina Turner. “I didn't want to play Ike, to begin with, because in the script he was pretty one-dimensional.

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.