Interviews

George Takei is best-known around the world as Hikaru Sulu, later Captain Sulu, on the fictional Starship Enterprise in the beloved sci-fi series, Star Trek. The openly gay actor, author, activist, and social media influencer sat down during Pride month with HFPA member Brent Simon for an episode of our podcast series, Golden Globes Around the World to talk about his 2019 New York Times bestselling graphic memoir “They Called Us Enemy” - which recently returned in a deluxe edition with 16 pages of bonus material and has also been translated in additional languages to truly reach around the world The fearless, funny 85-year-old star pulled no punches as he talked about his years behind barbed wire with his family in Japanese American internment camps and reveals how a guest role in the Archie Comics series Riverdale led to his decision to tell his own story in a graphic novel.

His role as "The Professor" in the international hit series Money Heist made him an international star. And that's how he got cast in the Amazon production, The Wheel of Time.

We spoke to Gina Guarino Eskow about the Valley Cultural Foundation, an important non-profit organization that has changed the arts landscape of the San Fernando Valley. The Valley Cultural Foundation, one of the HFPA grantees, was founded in 1975 to assist the LA City Department of Parks and Recreation in bringing arts and culture to the San Fernando Valley.

The Nigerian activist Pamela Adie was the first person in Nigeria to make a documentary about coming out as a lesbian. Under the Rainbow, from 2018, follows her discovery of herself, her coming out to her family and friends, and the consequent alienation that followed.

“I never had a bad encounter for being a gay Asian designer,” said fashion designer Alan del Rosario. “It has to do with how I present myself.

As the Hollywood Foreign Press Association joined the world in celebrating the recent 75th annual Cannes Film Festival, there was one movie that stood out for many. So much so, that HFPA Japanese member Itsuko Harai excitedly suggested we talk to Plan 75 writer, director, and cinematographer, Chie Hayakawa about her feature film debut and she became the only filmmaker who took part in an episode of the Golden Globes Around the World podcast during the festival.

In her recent work in the Fox series The Cleaning Lady (no, she is not the “maid”, as Hollywood usually portrays Latinas) this beautiful and talented 27-year-old Argentinian actress, Eva De Domici, has managed to achieve something that very few immigrant actors have: perfectly blend herself into an American production. In the first season, her role as Nadia Morales began as a secondary one, and quite frankly, that could easily have been the end.

East Side Story As India celebrates the 75th anniversary of its independence, here’s a look back at the history of Indian cinema through the eyes of Uday Singh, managing director of the Motion Picture Association’s India office and an industry veteran of 26 years. Singh was interviewed by email.

Golden Globe nominee George Miller is an original. For the past fifty years, the Australian filmmaker has taken audiences on astonishing explorations, from apocalyptic turmoil (Mad Max) to dark fantasy (The Witches of Eastwick) to sentimental humanity (Babe).

Is there anything more complicated than familial relationships? Be it husband and wife, parent and child, or sibling to sibling, the DNA of cinema is abounding with narratives that attempt to navigate the intricate bonds that connect us. Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) gets her chance to dive deep into quite the sibling interaction in Arnaud Desplechin's  Brother and Sister (Frère et Sœur), a drama that examines the hostility between esteemed stage actor Alice Vuillard (Cotillard) and her brother Louis (Melvil Poupaud), an acclaimed author.