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‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ Co-creator Francesca Sloane Breaks Down the Emmy-Nominated Drama’s ‘Couples Therapy’ Episode
Francesca Sloane, writer and co-creator of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, worked with Donald Glover to reinterpret the 2005 film of the same name into a dark dramedy about two for-hire agents embroiled in a tumultuous fake marriage. Sloane selected this scene from episode six, “Couples Therapy,” where John and Jane Smith (Glover and Maya Erskine) […]
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Sex, Drugs and Party Shootouts: Behind Sofia Vergara’s Drug Lord Breakdown
In Griselda, Sofía Vergara leaves behind her comedic roots and steps into the violent, backstabbing world of her eponymous character, a real-life drug lord becoming increasingly deranged over the course of the six-part miniseries. Episode five sees her break her composure, pulling a gun on her estranged husband, Dario, shooting up his car and then […]
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‘We’re Here’ Drag Queens on Educating Viewers: “We Are Natural, We Are Normal”
Since its inception, Max’s We’re Here has had a bold premise: Three real-life drag queens sashay out onto the streets across small-town America to coach ordinary people to perform in drag onstage, and hopefully foster some enlightenment and community along the way. For season four, the series underwent a complete overhaul, seeing the departure of […]
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How to Create a Show About a Grieving Black Female P.I. “Without Apologizing for Being Bold”
Diarra Kilpatrick is the consummate multihyphenate: creator, co-writer and star of the BET+ noir dramedy Diarra From Detroit, which mines real elements of her life to tell a classic mystery tale that also deals with grief. “I wanted to tell a story about a Black private investigator for a long time. I was talking to […]
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Behind the First Significant Death in ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’
The penultimate episode of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans sees Babe Paley, the New York high-society socialite played by Naomi Watts, succumb to cancer and take her dying breath on her bed, estranged from friend Truman Capote (Tom Hollander). The shot of Paley’s death is a rare moment of inertness for the show, a deliberate […]
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‘Palm Royale’ Director on “Iconic Moment” Laura Dern Shared the Screen With Father Bruce Dern for the First Time Ever
In Palm Royale, about a woman named Maxine (Kristen Wiig) infiltrating the wealthy elite of Palm Beach, Florida, in 1969, Laura Dern plays Linda, the local feminist of the community. In episode six, titled “Maxine Takes a Step,” Dern shares the screen with her real-life father, Bruce Dern, for the first time ever. “It’s such […]
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In ‘The Gilded Age,’ Socialites Waged War Using Opera Houses
At the end of season two of The Gilded Age, a battle between two opera houses — the Metropolitan Opera and the Academy of Music — comes to a head, with Bertha (Carrie Coon) emerging victorious at last, gazing out over the star-studded premiere she facilitated. In order to re-create the opening of the Met […]
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‘Shogun’ Cinematographer on the Special Effects That Brought Its Season Opening Sea Disaster to Life
At the beginning of Hulu’s Shogun, set in 1600s Japan, English sailor John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) is taken prisoner by local samurai. While being shipped to Osaka, a storm sends Spanish sailor Vasco Rodrigues overboard, and Blackthorne rescues him. The sequence was filmed to look almost entirely as if it were captured in a single […]
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‘The Sympathizer’ DP on His Favorite Shot From the War Drama: “It’s Not a Simple, Static Shot”
In HBO/Max’s war drama The Sympathizer, adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning novel and co-created by renowned director Park Chan-wook, a communist spy from North Vietnam (The Captain, played by Hoa Xuande) accompanies a Southern Vietnamese general (Toan Le) as he prepares to flee for America or risk capture. In this scene from episode one, […]
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‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ Creators On Giving the Fandom What It Wants
The daunting task of adapting Bryan Lee O’Malley’s beloved graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, about a musician whose girlfriend battles his seven evil exes, into anime series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off fell to O’Malley and writer BenDavid Grabinski. In episode one, the pair immediately upend things. “We were talking about [how the […]
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Nikolaj Arcel, Ilker Çatak and Other Shortlisted Filmmakers on Bringing Their Movies to Life
The second of two panels hosted by The Hollywood Reporter at the Palm Springs International Feature Film featured a breadth of official Oscar submissions from around the world. The discussion, moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Mia Galuppo, highlighted how these films varied greatly in both tone and scope. One such film is Germany’s entry, The […]
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Matteo Garrone, Tran Anh Hung and More International Helmers on What Drove Them to Make Their Oscar Shortlisted Films
This year’s Palm Springs Film Festival saw not one but two international feature panel discussions hosted by The Hollywood Reporter. The first, moderated by THR’s own Kevin Cassidy, highlighted some of the most exciting non-English-language films of the year. Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano is Italy’s submission for the Oscar this year and follows two boys […]
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