Limited Series
Behind the First Significant Death in ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’
The penultimate episode of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans sees Babe Paley, the New York high-society socialite played by Naomi Watts, succumb to cancer and take her dying breath on her bed, estranged from friend Truman Capote (Tom Hollander). The shot of Paley’s death is a rare moment of inertness for the show, a deliberate […]
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‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Director on Highlighting a Family Reunion in the Shadow of the Holocaust
We Were the Lucky Ones wasn’t just years in the making for director and executive producer Thomas Kail — it was a matter of decades. He met author Georgia Hunter — whose novel inspired the Hulu series about a Jewish family determined to reunite after being separated during World War II — in 1999, around […]
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‘The Regime’ Star on Working With Kate Winslet (Again): “We’re Both Like, What Is This Mad Piece of Work?”
Matthias Schoenaerts had worked with Kate Winslet before, but never like this. Never as a lackey engaging in a psychosexual power play with a capricious dictator convinced bacteria is flooding her palace. It almost goes without saying that The Regime is far less restrained than Schoenaerts and Winslet’s previous screen romance, the largely forgotten 2014 […]
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‘Expats’ Creator Lulu Wang on Giving Background Players Main Character Energy
When Lulu Wang read Janice Y.K. Lee’s best-selling novel The Expatriates, she immediately knew she wanted to explore the periphery of the titular characters’ “bubble” in her limited series adaptation for Prime Video: “We had to step outside and see them through other lenses in order to understand the context.” With the blessing of Lee […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Calista Flockhart on TV Return in ‘Feud,’ ‘Ally McBeal’ Era and Urging Harrison Ford to Do ‘Shrinking’
Calista Flockhart, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a TV legend. The actress shot to fame 27 years ago playing a Harvard Law graduate who goes to work in a Boston firm on David E. Kelley’s groundbreaking Fox comedy series Ally McBeal (1997-2002), for which she garnered three […]
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A Makeunder Fit for a Drug Lord
In Netflix’s Griselda, Sofía Vergara transforms into notorious Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco. Makeup artist Todd McIntosh, working with the show’s prosthetics constructor, Stephen Bettles, used a prosthetic nose, eyebrow covers and fake teeth for Vergara’s look, which he completed with the help of paint and makeup. “If you look at Griselda, she was not […]
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Juno Temple on Her Toughest ‘Fargo’ Scene, ‘Ted Lasso’ Criticism and ‘Venom 3’
After racking up three Emmy nominations for her fan-favorite comedic performance in Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso, Juno Temple took a dramatic turn leading the ensemble cast of FX’s Fargo season five, playing a seemingly “Minnesota nice” housewife with a secret dark past and some particularly unrefined survival instincts. For the 34-year-old British actress, going from […]
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How to Sound Like a Con in ‘Ripley’
During Steven Zaillian’s Ripley, the viewer gleans a lot from things that aren’t said, whether that’s through telltale props, intricate sets or fabulous 1960s fashion. But it’s the show’s sound mixing that really becomes a key player in the Netflix series, adding tension and mystery to scenes with little dialogue or score. “Steve clearly planned […]
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Hulu’s ‘Under the Bridge’ Tells the Story of Reena Virk — and The Notorious B.I.G.
In the first episode of Hulu’s Under the Bridge, Reena Virk is trying to fit in with a new group of friends. Her way of bonding? Playing The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 opus Life After Death. That album — his second — was released 16 days after the rap icon was gunned down to death. Virk, […]
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Robert Downey Jr. Says His ‘Sympathizer’ Hair and Makeup Was a “Very Surreal Experience”
The star of HBO’s limited series has viewers seeing quintuple with his multiple characters and says, “Working with director Park Chan-wook was hands-on in a way you don’t get with CGI.”
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‘Baby Reindeer’ Actress Jessica Gunning: “I Don’t Think There Will Be Another Role Like Martha”
Jessica Gunning is having a moment. The veteran actress has earned rave reviews for playing unhinged stalker Martha in Netflix’s critically acclaimed limited series Baby Reindeer. It’s a part she’s embracing as the role of a lifetime, yet the West Yorkshire native, 38, has been acting ever since graduating from drama school at London’s Rose […]
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Brie Larson’s Lessons of Fashion Artistry Behind ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
Mirren Gordon-Crozier has worked with Brie Larson on four projects in the past 10 years, beginning with the actress’ breakout role in the 2013 independent drama Short Term 12. Yet when the costume designer heard Larson’s next lead part was in a period TV series, “I almost fell to the ground,” she says. What most […]
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