Interviews

Golden Globe-nominated Cuban-American actor Andy García sat down with HFPA journalist Silvia Bizio in Los Angeles and talked about his long career from 8 Million Ways to Die to his recent movie The Mule.   Working with Clint Eastwood was a dream come true for him.

I Am the Night,  the TNT limited series directed by Patty Jenkins, focuses on the real-life story of Fauna Hodel, a white girl who was adopted by a black family and told she was biracial. The truth, it turns out, is far from that.

When Gloria, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio ’s fourth feature-length film, was released in 2013, it caught Julianne Moore’s attention. Lelio was told that Moore had seen saw the film -the complex journey of a divorced woman - and loved it but he wasn’t interested in doing the remake.

As a boy in New Jersey, Kevin Feige waited for Fridays – that was his movie night.   Now, as a film producer, he is creating movie nights for people around the world.

Matt LeBlanc doesn’t mind if people remember him as Joey from Friends.   But for the last few years, he has been playing Adam Burns on the CBS’ TV show Man with a Plan, currently in its third season.

Controlling.  That is how Anna Paquin described herself when she sat down with journalist Barbara Gasser at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s office in West Hollywood.

This week's Oral History is somewhat different. It doesn't come from the HFPA's archives -the world's largest collection of its kind, with over 10,000 items covering over 40 years of interviews, now  housed in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library- but from an interview by HFPA journalist Jack Tewksbury with horror movie icon Bela Lugosi, in early 50s New York.

A three-time Golden Globe winner, composer Justin Hurwitz met journalist Ana Maria Bahiana at HFPA’s office in West Hollywood where he talked about his process of working with director Damien Chazelle.  They have done four movies – Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Whiplash, La La Land and First Man.