Interviews

At the end of Mardi Gras season in February, the cast and producers of Queen Sugar relocated to New Orleans, just like they had done for the previous four years. With the exception of Rutina Wesley, one of the show’s three lead actors, who owns a home in Nola, they all rented apartments or houses, some upgrading their personal living spaces from previous years.

From architect to actor - in a few years Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has become a well-known leading man. His first acting job was in Baz Luhrmann’s TV series The Get Down and this year he won an Emmy for his performance on the series Watchmen.

Stephanie Levi-John stars in the historical drama, The Spanish Princess, which follows the life of Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope) who becomes Queen of England. Stephanie plays the much-coveted role as her loyal lady-in-waiting, Lina, who struggles to adapt to the English way of life.

British director and writer, Mark Tonderai, known for The Passage (2019), Locke & Key (2020), and The Five (2016) talks about his latest offering, Spell. This supernatural horror movie is about a man who wakes up after surviving an airplane crash to be found by an elderly couple who are seemingly kind until he finds their real and sinister intentions.

Kate Mara’s rite of passage into acting came under the lights of the hit TV series Law and Order.

As an actor, Vince Vaughn has crashed weddings, interacted with dinosaurs, seen his relationship break up, gone to therapy and excelled at dodgeball. In his thirty-two-year career, he’d never been asked to play the part of a teenage girl.

Gillian Anderson, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of The Crown, had never experienced anything as grand as being part of this series. Taking on the role of Great Britain’s first female Prime Minister was also a welcome challenge that made the former star of the X-Files series transform her looks, mannerisms and speech patterns to portray a woman whom the world knew as the Iron Lady, and who ruled her nation with a strong hand for 11 years.

Growing up in a nice Jewish family in South Orange, New Jersey, Zach Braff knew his parents had set a high bar for him. With his father an attorney and his mother a clinical psychologist, it only took twenty-six years for him to fulfill his familial destiny when he became a doctor.

As a 23-year-old native Texan, Cooper Raiff decided to make a movie with no prior filmmaking experience. For his effort, S#!%house, he won the featured narrative competition at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival.

A big change happened to Kate Walsh during the Covid-19 pandemic - she moved to Australia. The American actress known for Grey’s Anatomy and her own spin-off show Private Practice was visiting her friends when the global pandemic started.