Interviews

The popular South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, wrapped on March 20 after 10 memorable days celebrating the convergence of tech, film, music, and comedy. Of course, you’ll find coverage of the festival highlights on our website, but what is it really all about? The Hollywood Foreign Press invited three of our members who were attending the event for the first time to share their impressions; on not just the events that make the festival so unique, but the party vibe, the BBQ, and the Nic Cage flyers all over town asking him to call his biggest fan.

Essie Davis looks different in almost every role she plays, going from wearing a dark 1920s bob haircut as Phryne Fisher in the television series Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, to a super-short blonde cut in The Matrix films, to a rather messy look with grey roots as the eccentric Helen in her current film Nitram.   It is not only different looks that the Australian actress is able to slip into.

Javier Bardem, nominated as Best Actor for the Golden Globes and the Academy for his performance as Ricky Ricardo in Being the Ricardos, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2004 about the Spanish movie Mar adentro (The Sea Inside) directed by Alejandro Aménabar, Golden Globe winner as Foreign Picture in 2005.   He supported the fight of Ramón Sampredo for the right to end his life, after becoming a quadriplegic at age 25 in a diving accident.

Sin dudas esta edición del Festival de Málaga será muy importante para él, porque no solo protagoniza la película que se proyectará luego del acto de apertura, Código emperador de Jorge Coira, sino que además se lo verá en otra de las propuestas de cine español que se proyectarán en la ciudad andaluza, Canallas de Daniel Guzmán, en donde acompaña desde un papel clave pero secundario a Joaquín González. Sin lugar a dudas uno de los actores más importantes en la península ibérica, Luis Tosar nunca pierde la humildad de haber sido alguna vez un soñador en su Lugo natal, en Galicia, ni tampoco desperdicia la oportunidad de analizar cada tema con profundidad, lo que convierte a cada entrevista en un verdadero placer.

Hard to believe it’s been 30 since Sharon Stone uncrossed her legs in Basic Instinct and created an unforgettable movie moment etched into cinema history. Paul Verhoeven directed the hit film also starring Michael Douglas, but the writer of the movie celebrating its 30th anniversary was Hungarian-American Joe Eszterhas, a former immigrant and refugee who started out as a Rolling Stone reporter and went on to become one of the highest-paid and most famous screenwriters in history.

Al igual que Cristóbal Ríos, su personaje de Star Trek: Picard, el actor chileno Santiago Cabrera vuelve a enfrentar, en esta segunda temporada, el desafío de ser reconocido por su talento y por su humanidad; y no tan solo por ser latino. “Me identifico completamente como latino, pero también como actor.

In 2008, Robert Pattinson became famous overnight. Portraying moody vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise, based on the best-selling novels by Stephenie Meyer.

Mo Abudu has caught the world’s attention. As the daughter of Nigerian parents living in the UK, the media mogul was intent on creating African content that would travel outside of the African continent.