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Anthony Anderson (Black-ish), Kevin Bacon (I Love Dick), Ted Danson (The Good Place), Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta), William H. Macy (Shameless) and Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) talk about tackling unlikable characters, what it's like making comedy in the current political climate and their proudest moments from their shows.
Pamela Adlon (Better Things), Minnie Driver (Speechless), America Ferrera (Superstore), Kathryn Hahn (I Love Dick), Issa Rae (Insecure) and Emmy Rossum (Shameless) talk about typecasting in Hollywood, male nudity vs. female nudity and their most embarrassing moments on set.
Riz Ahmed (The Night Of), Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us), John Lithgow (The Crown), Ewan McGregor (Fargo), Billy Bob Thornton (Goliath) and Jeffrey Wright (Westworld) talk about what scenes they were nervous to approach and the process of letting a character go.
Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies), Jessica Lange (Feud: Bette and Joan), Chrissy Metz (This Is Us), Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale), Oprah Winfrey (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) and Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies) talk about how they prepare for intense scenes and gender equality in Hollywood.
Six executive producers behind the top comedic shows open up about what draws them to certain stories, the complications of network casting and the pressure to get political. Judd Apatow (Girls, Crashing, Love), Kenya Barris (Black-ish), Gloria Calderon Kellett (One Day at a Time), David Mandel (Veep), Scott Silveri (Speechless) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) talk about which writers they look up to most and the pitfalls of borrowing from one's own life.
Six executive producers behind the year’s best dramatic shows open up about how to make talent comfortable when shooting sensitive subject matters, how the current political climate affects their storytelling and the pressure to build a TV empire. Ava DuVernay (Queen Sugar), Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion), David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies), Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black), Lisa Joy (Westworld) and Ryan Murphy (Feud: Bette and Joan) talk about the TV families that they most identify with and which type of project they get pitched the most.
Five of the power players behind the year’s best reality series open up about pushing the envelope with their subject matter, their first industry jobs and why their shows connect so strongly with audiences. W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America), Kris Jenner (Keeping Up With the Kardashians), Leah Remini (Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath), RuPaul (RuPaul’s Drag Race) and SallyAnn Salsano (Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party) discuss what reality TV says about our culture and the distresses of social media.
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
Angelina Jolie – First They Killed My Father
Patty Jenkins – Wonder Woman
Joe Wright – The Darkest Hour
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Tom Hanks – The Post
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
John Boyega – Detroit
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Emma Stone – Battle of the Sexes
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Jennifer Lawrence – Mother!
Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game
Judd Apatow – The Big Sick
Ridley Scott – Blade Runner 2049 / All the Money in the World
Amy Pascal – The Post / Molly’s Game
Eric Fellner – Darkest Hour
Seth Rogen – The Disaster Artist
Jason Blum – Get Out
Aaron Sorkin–Molly’s Game
Darren Aronofsky – Mother!
Faith Akin – In the Fade
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Anthony McCarten – The Darkest Hour
Emily Gordon – The Big Sick
Roger Deakins –Blade Runner 2049
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Dunkirk
Janusz Kaminski – The Post
Rachel Morrison – Mudbound
Dan Lausten – The Shape of Water
Robert Elswit – Suburbicon & Roman Israel Esq.
Filmed in front of a live studio audience.
Bryan Cranston – Last Flag Flying
Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name
Diane Kruger – In the Fade
Robert Pattinson – Good Time
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water
