Interviews

There are few actors as accomplished as Golden Globe-winning Reese Witherspoon. Most recently she starred and produced in the acclaimed Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere, as well as taking the lead opposite Jennifer Aniston in the award-winning Apple TV drama, The Morning Show.

Paul Greengrass has a penchant for putting his lead actor Tom Hanks in harm’s way. In their 2013 collaboration Captain Phillips, the British director made his two-time Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor face off against Somali pirates.

Golden Globe winner and Cecil B. deMille Award recipient George Clooney tells HFPA journalist Elisabeth Sereda how his latest movie, The Midnight Sky, was shaped in post-production.

The Russian thriller series To the Lake follows an unlikely group of people dealing with loss and unresolved interpersonal conflicts, all the while struggling to survive amidst a deadly epidemic. Uncannily prescient, the show debuted in 2019 and its depiction of violence and grief shocked viewers, but they were even more shocked when a mere two months later Russia’s first cases of the novel Coronavirus appeared, and the era of lockdown began.

Nigerian-British actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim might be one of the most prolific actors you’ve never heard of and stars in two films currently streaming - Black Beauty on Disney+, as well as Netflix’s Riding with Sugar. Best known for his work in the TV series Black Sails (2014-2015), and his portrayal of Georges Rutaganda in the acclaimed Golden Globe-nominated film Hotel Rwanda (2004), he also starred in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

Hannah Waddingham, 46, is a London-born actress and singer who began her career on the London stage. An accomplished performer on the West End, she garnered three Olivier award nominations for performances in Spamalot, (also performed on Broadway), in 2007, A Little Night Musical, in 2010, and Kiss Me Kate, in 2013.

Nurtured in sketch and improve comedy, Aubrey Plaza, an NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate first appeared on the comedic radar playing Seth Rogen’s love interest in 2009’s Funny People. Subsequently, the Delaware native notched roles in Scott Pilgrim vs.

While Frank and Joe Hardy might be fictional brothers, their exploits for the past 90 plus years have ignited the imagination of many an adolescent boy. Created by Edward Stratemeyer in 1927, the novels, which feature the siblings solving mysteries, tapped not only into the concept of good versus evil but the approaching bridge between childhood and manhood and the responsibilities that generates.

Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers met at NYU. After class, they used to study next to each other at the library.

Golden Globe winner Sacha Baron Cohen tells HFPA journalist Greet Ramaekers that he assumed that a sequel to Borat would be impossible.   “Over the years we discussed how it would be possible to do another Borat movie.