It’s actors interviewing actors while getting deep (and not so deep) on their struggles, techniques and awards thirst! Some old friends, complete strangers, flawless and trash pairings below the cut.
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Tom Hanks & Viola DavisFences; Sully- Tom Hanks kinda overstates TV’s diversity, Viola talks about how limited black roles usually are;
- Is that how you pronounce biopic? (I had no idea);
- Viola talks a lot about how playing a character on tv that gets to escape those confines is important to her;
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Full Video(aka Jonathan Safran Foer’s loves)
Manchester By The Sea; Jackie- It’s Jackie & Marilyn (they talk about how challenging it was playing these breathy-voiced iconic figures that were so known and present in the larger consciousness);
- Michelle’s first agent was also an undertaker, they’re very protective of kids they work with;
- Natalie’s dad wanted her to go to grad school or law school until she was 25, she partially thinks that motivated her to direct something more serious instead of a romantic comedy for example;
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Full Video- Andrew struggled with the whole machinery around Spiderman, Amy in a very polite manner complains about how underdeveloped Lois is in the new Superman movies;
- Talk about the importance of regret;
- They gush about Tom Ford & Mel Gibson;
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Full Video- Talk a lot about the movie they did together;
- Ryan auditioned for the Coen brothers and got turned down, Taraji lost out on Scandal to Kerry Washington;
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Full Video- Emma had a signed headshot of Molly on her bedroom wall growing up;
- Molly gushes about Emma in
La La Land, says she identifyed a lot with her character;
- They talk about difficulties they had when auditioning;
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Full Video- They’re basically the same person, lol
- Talk about Wooderson (Dazed & Confused) and The Dude (The Big Lebowski), and the specific fans of those roles;
- Jeff talks about working on Iron Man;
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Full Video- They both play characters that represent their director’s mothers;
- Talk about how vulnerable acting can be;
- Naomie rejects the stereotype of actors as prima donnas, finds it the opposite, actually;
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Full Video- They both saw an of Steel & Star Wars as socially relevant films in their own way;
- Michael wants Jabba the Hut to wear a Donald Trump hat in the next movie;
- Michael hadn’t watched A Single Man before signing up for NA
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Full Video- Reminisce about To Die For, Nicole says him and Joaquin
were their characters, lol;
- She worked less after getting married and had trouble getting that role;
- Nicole acted like the character off screen to convince the screenwriter she could play it, flirted with the 64 year old;
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Full Video- Greta gushes about
Moonlight, they spend a lot of time on it;
- Mahershala talks about the frustration of playing the great, classic roles in grad school (Chekov, Shakespeare, etc), but how those types of roles just aren’t available for black actors once they enter the market;
- He would love to play more leading man types, Greta talks about surviving on indies only;
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Full Video- Octavia was excited about the possibilities after The Help, but ended up mostly getting maid role offers;
- She turned to newbie directors after that;
- Dev says seeing Octavia win meant a lot to him;
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Full Video- Both kids from the Valley, got into acting really young; (is Hailee getting Sally’s references? Who knows…)
- Hailee talks about how she still had to deal with a lot of normal teen drama despite having skipped high school;
- Sally was very depressed while playing The Flying Nun, and another actress helped her by taking her to the actors studio, which gave her more of a sense of purpose;
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Full Video- Hugh used to be very demanding on set and about every detail involving his movies;
- Both feel like fatherhood made their work/life better;
- Prefer smaller films, but understand the need for commerce;
- Hugh Grant thinks actors shouldn’t forget that they’re there to entertain people, and that sometimes they can disappear up their own asses;
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