Interviews

As much as the world likes to believe progress has been made in the equality of human rights, last summer’s Black Lives Matter movement illustrated that clearly, there is still much to be done. As often as we are told to learn from history sadly, we witness too many times history repeating itself.

Golden Globe-winning actress Gillian Anderson trusted her instinct when she agreed to play Margaret Thatcher on Netflix series The Crown. She tells HFPA journalist Meher Tatna how she chooses her roles: “Unless it’s an incredibly experienced director, which I’m dying to work with, I probably won’t take roles where I don’t know what I’m doing.

Zendaya goes through an emotional roller coaster, psychological games, twists and turns in her movie Malcolm & Marie. The situation is triggered when her boyfriend, a film director (John David Washington) forgets to thank her during his speech at a premiere.

Tenoch Huerta’s career has taken a giant leap with a slew of first class roles in his native Mexican cinema. He won an Ariel Award and was nominated four other times, in productions like the renowned Sin nombre (by Cary Joji Fukunaga), and the streaming series Narcos: México, where he played Rafael Caro Quintero, as well as the upcoming The Forever Purge.

With 125 credits in film and television at just 50 years old, it's clear that Clifton Collins Jr, who started his career in 1990 as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, has been really busy. Even if he has been featured in series such as Westworld, Veronica Mars and Ballers, and studio titles as The Mule, Trascendence, Pacific Rim and Star Trek (plus the upcoming Nightmare Alley, his second time for director Guillermo del Toro), the best roles in his career came from independent cinema, such as the condemned killer in Capote or the prisoner in The Last Castle.

Golden Globe winner actress, producer and director Robin Wright tells HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann that she was nervous when she got the opportunity to direct her first feature film, Land. The story is about Edee Mathis, played by Wright, who in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of uncertainty retreats to the wilderness.

By all accounts, Jake Allyn was on a trajectory for a career as an athlete. Attending Cornell University, the Dallas, Texas native was playing collegiate football -  that is until his junior year, when the combination of a few injuries and the realization that his lack of speed might hinder any advancement to the professional ranks, gave the then-20-year-old a moment of reflection.

Mary Mouser, 24, reprises her role as Samantha LaRusso in Season Three of the acclaimed hit series, Cobra Kai, the spinoff from the popular Karate Kid movies. Mouser has been working since she was eight years old when she made her debut appearance in an episode of Without a Trace in 2004, and she hasn’t stopped working since.

Meaningful - that’s one of the main criteria that the two-time Golden Globe winner and Cecil B. deMille honoree Jodie Foster applies when choosing her work.

Screenwriter-producer-director Sofia Coppola mixes fiction, stories from other people and her personal reflections in her latest movie, On the Rocks. The film tells the story of a daughter (Rashida Jones) and father (Bill Murray) as they explore New York together in an attempt to mend their fractured relationship.