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On My Screen: Hugh Grant’s Political Dreams, Crying At ‘Finding Nemo’ & ‘The Undoing’ Character That’s “Pretty Close” To His Real Self
It seems unlikely that, at 58, Hugh Grant is celebrating his first Emmy nomination after a career spanning more than three decades, and which started on the small screen. Indeed, after his big breakthrough in 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, he became such a big star that much of his earlier, lesser-known TV work…
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Queen Latifah Talks ‘Bessie’: Its 20-Year Wait, Nude Scenes & Her Influence: “If You Like Mick Jagger, Then You Like Bessie Smith”
Queen Latifah's "new" movie, HBO's Bessie, actually has been on her radar for more than 20 years. Latifah was best known as a rap artist in the 1990s when producers Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck approached her about portraying the legendary Bessie Smith, "Empress of the Blues." The project already had gone…
‘American Crime’s Timothy Hutton On John Ridley, Felicity Huffman & Season 2: “It’s So Wildly, Radically Different”
Since winning a supporting actor Academy Award for 1980's Ordinary People, Timothy Hutton has worked regularly in film, theater and TV. His most recent turn as ex-gambler Russ Skokie in John Ridley's limited series for ABC, American Crime, squares him off against Emmy-winner Felicity Huffman, who portrays Russ's…
‘Bloodline’s Ben Mendelsohn On ‘Star Wars: Rogue One:’ “I’m Waiting For Them To Call Me”
As the doomed Danny Rayburn in Netflix's Bloodline, Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn once again embodies a villain, only this time with a sympathetic twist. Known in recent years for a series of borderline-sociopathic criminal roles, starting with Animal Kingdom in 2010—and rumored to be circling a lead role in the Star…
Matt Walsh On How Improv Informs ‘Veep’: “I Wasn’t Scared Putting My Script Down” – Emmys
Matt Walsh has been a staple of improv comedy going on 25 years. Starting out in Chicago, he would make his way to both New York and L.A., going on to cofound the Upright Citizens Brigade in the process. But before all that, Walsh was a psychology major who worked for a time in that industry before making the jump to…
Ruth Wilson On ‘The Affair’ Season 2: “It’s About Consequences”
There are two sides to every story and Showtime's The Affair uses this adage to great effect, telling a tale of infidelity from the perspectives of both Noah—a married-with-kids author, played by Dominic West—and Alison, a bereaved waitress. Wilson has received critical acclaim for her portrayal of the tortured…
Justin Theroux Interview: ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2 And His Tabloid Life As “The Most Dramatic Person On The Planet”
You're shooting season two right now?
Yeah, we have a big location shift. It's nice to be out in Big Sky Country. We moved to Texas.
What can you tell us about what's coming up?
We've decided to pull up stumps and leave Mapleton and there's a new place called Jarden, Texas. I guess the teaser does reveal that there…
Andre Holland: ‘The Knick’ Addresses An “Unresolved Part Of Our Cultural Heritage”
In The Knick, Andre Holland plays the marginalized Dr. Algernon Edwards, battling prejudice in the Knickerbocker hospital in early-1900s New York. The Steven Soderbergh-directed period drama not only covers racial and societal issues, but also delves into drug addiction, the hit-and-miss gore of early medical practice…
Melanie Lynskey On Her ‘Togetherness’ Housewife’s Sex Life And Those “Good” Duplass Brothers
After more than two decades of working in Hollywood, New Zealand-born actress Melanie Lynskey is in a really good place. Since her 1994 debut as a manipulated, murderous teen in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, she's built a diverse film and TV career that has included a role in 2009's Oscar-nominated Up in the Air…
‘Kimmy Schmidt’s Ellie Kemper On Her Cult Heroine: “I Wasn’t Sure Fey And Carlock Were Serious”
Ellie Kemper is as charming as one of the heroines in a Woody Allen film–fast-talking, genuinely affable, quick on her feet with a deftness for physical comedy—not unlike the cutups that Mia Farrow portrayed in Radio Days and Broadway Danny Rose. The Princeton grad propelled herself through New York's Upright Citizens…
‘Fresh Off The Boat’s Constance Wu On The Appeal Of Her Tiger Mom Role And Embracing Her Roots
Except for one failed pilot for Amazon, Constance Wu never had tried TV comedy when Fresh Off the Boat came along. So it comes as a surprise to the 33-year-old actress to find herself a TV critics' darling and breakout star of the series about a Taiwanese immigrant couple and their all-American kids, based on the…
‘Black-ish’ Star Anthony Anderson Sees Himself In Dre Johnson: “It’s My Sensibilities, My Wit, My Humor”
Between senior citizens and digital-brained teens, tweens and tots are the befuddled middle-agers trying to make sense of it all—while texting at the same time. Anthony Anderson, 44, takes this bafflement to new heights in Black-ish as Andre "Dre" Johnson, caught between his old-school "Pops" (Laurence Fishburne) from…
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