Interviews

On our 150th episode Jim Parsons, who rose to worldwide fame as Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory and as Rock Hudson’s agent Henry Wilson on Netflix’s Hollywood, told HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann about his passion for The Boys in the Band. It started as a play in 1968 by Mart Crowley followed by a film two years later directed by William Friedkin.

In a way, Antonio Campos has been preparing through many years and several movies to make his most ambitious film yet, The Devil All the Time, an adaptation of the novel by Donald Ray Pollock that premieres this week in Netflix with a cast that includes Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, Haley Bennett, Riley Keough, Sebastian Stan, Jason Clarke, and Mia Wasikowska, among many others. From his first feature film, Afterschool, which premiered in Cannes in 2008, the New York native has been obsessed with complicated human behavior and death, something he further explored in Simon Killer, which debuted at Sundance in 2012, and Christine, which premiered at the same festival in 2016.

Ambition comes in all sizes as 13-year-old actress, Momona Tamada, takes on the iconic role of Claudia Kishi in the reboot of the 1990 TV series, The Baby-Sitters Club, based on the popular books by Ann M. Martin.

Golden Globe-winning producer, director and writer Jay Roach has a desire of making people smile and connect them with storytelling. His work includes dramas like Recount, Game Change, and Bombshell, as well as comedies like Austin Powers, Meet the Parents, and Meet the Fockers.

In I Am Woman Australian actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey has an uncanny resemblance to the singer Helen Reddy. So much so, that when the movie was screened for the singer and her family, she received the ultimate compliment.

In his new HBO Max series Raised by Wolves, Ridley Scott leaps forward in time to the end of humanity on Earth and shoots off to a faraway planet where humanity is to be restarted. He explores themes that are familiar from his previous work: androids, religion versus science, the fallibility of both human and non-human nature.

Melbourne-born model-turned-actress Abbey Lee (33) steps into the world of 1950s racist America, in Jordan Peele’s horror drama series, Lovecraft Country. She first appeared on the big screen in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which led to a slew of movies including Gods of Egypt, Neon Demon (2016), The Dark Tower, and Welcome the Stranger (2017), Elizabeth Harvest (2018), and last year’s Lux/Eterna.

What if 15 years from now, a dating service called Soulmates had a scientific method to find your true soul mate? What would you do? Would you take the test and then what? That is what the AMC TV show Soulmates explores in several different ways in an episodic anthology where Malin Akerman plays the lead as Martha. The 42-year old Swedish American actress plays a woman who has had bad luck in love and marriage and decides to take extreme measures to meet her soul mate.

While certain countries claim their royal families in politics, Sweden seems to have bestowed their royalty on an acting dynasty, the Skarsgård’s. It is led by patriarch Stellan, four of whose eight children, sons, Alexander, Gustaf, Valter, and Bill, have followed in his theatrical footsteps.

Two-time Golden Globe winner Hilary Swank plays an astronaut bound to Mars on the Netflix series Away. “Emma Green is an astronaut commanding a mission to Mars.