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UPDATED with backstage comments: Patricia Arquette made an impassioned plea onstage at the Emmy Awards on Sunday for Hollywood and other industries to hire more transgender individuals. This came after she won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category for Hulu’s The Act. Arquette, who…

Last time Patricia Arquette was staring an Emmy in the face it was 2007, and she was on her second nomination for playing Allison Dubois in Medium—the pretty mom who has it all, with psychic powers to boot. What could have been a hackneyed stereotype became, in the hands of Arquette, a nuanced and moving portrait of a…

Patricia Arquette has doubled down in the Emmys nominations list this year, with nods for both her leading role in Showtime’s prison-based limited series Escape at Dannemora and for her supporting role in Hulu’s limited series The Act—both were based on real-life characters. The last actress Emmy-nominated in two…

Chloë Sevigny is back in Cannes this year, pulling double duty with a role in Jim Jarmusch's opening night zombie ensemble, The Dead Don't Die, and premiering her third short as director, White Echo. Black comedy The Dead Don't Die marks a re-team for Sevigny and Jarmusch, with whom she's made three films, including…

Here is more evidence that no one can predict where the hits can come from. There had been chatter that the streaming platform’s new anthology series The Act, starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King, has been doing well. At today’s  Disney Investor Day, Hulu CEO Randy Freer shed some light on the show’s success. “It…

Hulu's The Act launched in March with a focus on true crime, a format like True Detective and a star from True Romance. On Sunday at Deadline's The Contenders Emmys, that star, Patricia Arquette, told moderator Pete Hammond that the show's allure is a reminder that fact is often stranger (and more messed-up) than…

Hulu has released the first trailer for The Act, its anthology series that tells startling true-crime stories. The inaugural season stars Patricia Arquette and Joey King and follows the story based on the Buzzfeed article "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom to Be Murdered." The Season 1…

Patricia Arquette recognizes that playing a mother suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy in the first season of Hulu's The Act so soon after playing a prison employee/inmate lover in Showtime's Escape At Dannemora has left her "a little exhausted at playing crazy women." She acknowledged people have treated her…

EXCLUSIVE: Calum Worthy (American Vandal) is set to star opposite Patricia Arquette and Joey King in the first season of The Act, Hulu's character-based anthology series from writers Nick Antosca and Michelle Dean and Universal Cable Productions. Written by Dean and Antosca and directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, T…

Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny and The Carrie Diaries star AnnaSophia Robb are set to co-star opposite Patricia Arquette and Joey King in the first season of The Act, Hulu's character-based anthology series from Nick Antosca, Michelle Dean and Universal Cable Productions. Written by Dean and Antosca and directed by Laure…

EXCLUSIVE: Joey King (The Kissing Booth) is set as the co-lead opposite Patricia Arquette in the first season of The Act, Hulu's character-based anthology series from writers Nick Antosca and Michelle Dean and UCP. Written by Dean and Antosca and directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, The Act is a seasonal anthology…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy winner Patricia Arquette has been tapped to star in the first season of The Act, Hulu’s character-based anthology series from writers Nick Antosca and Michelle Dean and Universal Cable Productions. Written by Dean and Antosca and directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (Mustang), The Act is a…