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Priyanka Chopra Jonas grew up eyeing a career as an aeronautical engineer, but a detour to pageantry led to a Miss World crown in 2000 and a pivot to an acting career. She became a star in her native India and has gone on to conquer Hollywood. That may sound like the stuff of fairy tales, but there were certainly…

"There is indeed a place for us," Ariana DeBose said on the Oscar stage back in March. As the first Afro Latina and the first openly queer woman of color to win, she addressed her acceptance speech—for her role of Anita in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story—to those who have ever questioned their identity and find…

EXCLUSIVE: George Miller is distracted. Five minutes into our meeting, he begs forgiveness to take a quick call. And then, on an iPad tilted in his direction, the filmmaker watches as a camera feed from the Australian outback offers him a live view of a pre-shoot for his next feature, Furiosa. His supervising stunt…

If you're a fan of the music and video creations by singer-songwriter Jeymes Samuel — performed under his stage name The Bullitts — you'll recognize that same enthusiasm, precociousness and ambition directed into his feature directorial debut, The Harder They Fall. Spurred by his love for the genre and the lack of…

Deadline's Scene 2 Scene Podcast is back with another exciting episode, and today we're talking Tony award winning actress Sarah Jones about her directorial debut film Sell/Buy/Date—a hybrid doc/narrative produced by three time Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep. The film is also a product of Jones recently launched…

EXCLUSIVE: David Cronenberg has been at the cutting edge of horror for more than 50 years, sailing close to the mainstream with edgy early-2000s thrillers such as A History of Violence and Eastern Promises while appeasing the fans of his visceral '80s work with the likes of 1999's eXistenZ. At first glance, his new…

On this episode of Deadline's Scene 2 Scene Podcast, I talk with Oscar nominated actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris about the Showtime sci-fi series, The Man Who Fell To Earth. In tune with the theme of the show, the three of us share our their experiences with otherness (which is defined as the quality or fact…

I've been following the career of French actress Noemie Merlant since I saw her in Celine's Sciamma queer romance film Portrait of a Lady on Fire at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019.  Since her performance as Marian in Sciamma's film, Merlant has worked non-stop as an actress appearing films including:  Jumbo…

Oscar winner Javier Bardem is enjoying a strong awards season run with a Best Actor nomination for Being The Ricardos and is also coming off his first Spanish-language movie in nearly two decades, Goya laureate The Good Boss. Below, we talk about balance — both at home and at work, as well as what the future holds. On…

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival there is a critics' favorite. Last year, it was Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, a loose adaptation of three stories from Haruki Murakami's 2014 compendium Men Without Women, that stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yūsuke Kafuku, an actor and theater director dealing with a tragic…

Ten years as a working actress on Broadway has given Ariana DeBose a grounded approach to the swell of accolades accompanying her performance as the iconic Anita in Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Following a legacy of iconic performances, both on stage and film, DeBose is allowing herself to pave her…

For his The Power of the Dog role of Phil Burbank—a hyper-masculine, repressed rancher in Montana— Benedict Cumberbatch went to ‘dude school’ to learn such old world cowboy skills as roping, taxidermy and even banjo playing. It was vital to him that he deeply embody the world of Thomas Savage's 1967 based-on-truth…