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Tom Hollander Didn’t Know What a Big Deal Truman Capote Was When He Signed on to Play Him
Truman Capote, in his lifelong quest for infamy, left a trail of TV appearances behind for Tom Hollander to draw from for his portrayal of the flamboyant American novelist in the FX’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. “If I’d known quite how much [he’s known], I would have been more nervous,” Hollander admits of not […]
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Dominic West Is Happy He Doesn’t Have to Answer Questions About the Royal Family Anymore
Dominic West is a first-time Emmy nominee for his lead role as Prince Charles in The Crown, Peter Morgan’s historical drama about the royal family that garnered a total of 18 noms for its sixth and final season. “I talked to Jonathan Pryce first, because I said, ‘You’re being a bit greedy having been nominated […]
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Brie Larson Cooked “Every Single Meal” From Scratch While Preparing for ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
The character of Elizabeth Zott has been with Brie Larson for longer than any other cast or crewmember of Lessons in Chemistry, the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ 2022 novel of the same name. “Two years before the book was even scheduled to come out, it was sent to me by Jason Bateman […]
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‘UnPrisoned’ Boss on Standout Episode of Season 2 and Why TV “Could Use a Lot More Humor”
[This story contains spoilers from season two, episode five of UnPrisoned.] In season two of UnPrisoned, Paige (Kerry Washington) and Edwin (Delroy Lindo) mending the wounds of their still-shaky father-daughter relationship takes a backseat to their concerns about Finn (Faly Rakotohavana) and how being the son of a mother whose father was incarcerated for most […]
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Courtney B. Vance Was Intimidated to Portray Johnnie Cochran. Now He’s Playing Another Attorney in ’61st Street’
In the first season of the legal drama 61st Street, Courtney B. Vance stars as Franklin Roberts, a public defender on the brink of retirement who refuses to leave Black high school track athlete Moses Johnson’s (Tosin Cole) fate up to the corrupt criminal justice system when he’s accused of killing a Chicago police officer […]
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Forest Whitaker on ‘The Emperor of Ocean Park’ and How the TV Adaptation Avoids the Current Political Climate
When Yale law school professor Stephen L. Carter received a $4.2M advance from publisher Knopf for his 2002 novel The Emperor of Ocean Park, journalist David Gates scoffed at the large figure, writing in an article for Newsweek: “So why did anyone pay more than $4 million for this book? Well, there might be a […]
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Kerry Washington on Therapy Sessions With John Stamos and Digging Deep in ‘UnPrisoned’ Season 2
When the Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo dramedy UnPrisoned debuted as Onyx Collective’s most-watched Hulu premiere in March 2023 and became the most-watched original scripted series of the year, a second seasoned seemed like a sure bet. Yet renewal news for the Tracy McMillan-created show of which Yvette Lee Bowser is executive producer and showrunner, […]
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Daniel Ezra Unpacks the ‘All American’ Season 6 Finale and Stepping Down as Series Lead
[This story contains spoilers from the two-episode season six finale of All American.] Two couples in the vortex, as the group of friends at the center of CW’s All American call themselves, have forever changed their relationship statuses from will-they-won’t-they romances to ‘til-death-do-us-part bonds in season six of the sports drama. After Jordan Baker (Michael […]
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Heather Dubrow and Tamra Judge Say ‘RHOC’ Feels Like the “Glory Days” After a Tumultuous Season 17
Being a reality TV housewife is big business. Not just for the Bravo network which, upon the premiere of season 18 of The Real Housewives of Orange County on Thursday, marks 100 seasons of The Real Housewives franchise over a span of 18 years and 11 cities. But also for the women who are chosen […]
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‘Land of Women’ Star Santiago Cabrera on Nearly Landing the Role of Aquaman and His Secret ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Part
In Land of Women, Chilean actor Santiago Cabrera stars as Amat, a Spanish resident in the fictional Catalonian town of La Muga and the sole male participant in the all-female wine cooperative on which the city’s economy relies. He also becomes an unexpected and much-needed aide to Eva Longoria’s Gala Scott, who, along with her […]
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‘UnPrisoned’ Creator on Her Dad and the Real Nadine Dying One Day Apart Before Show’s Launch
Comedy isn’t the first genre most would assign a show about a man getting out of federal prison and reuniting with his family after serving decades behind bars. But humor is the instinctive approach UnPrisoned creator and writer Tracy McMillan took for the Hulu series, which draws from her lived experience growing up in the […]
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Eva Longoria Has Been Stressed Watching Streaming TV. So She Pitched ‘Land of Women’
After spending the last decade directing other actors, Eva Longoria is back in front of the camera in the new Spanish-language dramedy Land of Women. The six-part Apple TV+ series is Spanish writer and producer Ramón Campos’ adaptation of Spanish journalist Sandra Barneda’s novel La Tierra de Las Mujeres. In it, Longoria stars as Gala […]
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