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EXCLUSIVE: The Act star Joey King has closed a first-look deal with Hulu. Under the pact, King, who at age 20 is one of the youngest ever to strike a deal with a streaming network, will produce TV series for Hulu. King is coming off a starring role in the acclaimed Hulu limited series The Act, which earned her an…

While shooting Hulu's true-crime series The Act, Joey King relished the opportunity to learn from her Oscar-winning co-star, Patricia Arquette. Following an Awardsline screening last night of the series' second episode , the actors appeared for a conversation, during which King spoke in depth about what she'd learned…

UPDATED with video from speech: Patricia Arquette utterly ignored the admonition at the top of the Golden Globes ceremony by host Ricky Gervais, who urged nominees to avoid political speeches were they to win. Accepting her statuette for Best Supporting Actress — Series, Miniseries or Television Film for her…

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…

“It was the most freeing experience as an actor, to be able to let go of my vanity," reveals Joey King of her acclaimed performance opposite Patricia Arquette in Hulu's The Act. The eight episode first season of the crime anthology unraveled the sordid and strange real life tale of domineering mother Dee Dee…

Hulu’s limited series The Act is truly a horror show in many ways, the story of an obsessive mother suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, taking her daughter through hell as she makes up all sorts of illnesses and maladies. It is all based on the true and startling story of Dee Dee Blanchard, played by Patricia…

An Emmy winner and three-time nominee, Jeff Russo prizes emotional authenticity in his work above all else. One of the busiest composers working in television today, Russo has always gravitated toward certain kinds of stories—ones that are "told from the heart," whatever their genre may be. Appearing on Production…

Patricia Arquette has been killing it, as they say, in the past few years with Oscar- and Emmy-winning performances that have made her one of the most in-demand character actresses around. I emphasize the phrase “character actress ” because — as she says in today’s interview for my Deadline video series, The Actor’s…

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…