More from Seija Rankin
Confessions of a Hollywood Screenwriter: Brit Marling’s Secrets of Success
When Brit Marling and her longtime collaborator Zal Batmanglij came up with the idea for their latest series, A Murder at the End of the World, it was the very first time that every network they pitched wanted to make it. At the time, early in the pandemic, they were riding off of the high […]
- By
What Lily Collins and Nobel Prize Winners Have in Common
“It’s not what people would expect, right?” Lily Collins jokes about her long-standing partnership with the Breakthrough Prize, which honors scientists for their contributions to areas like fundamental physics and mathematics. On April 13, she’ll return to present at the awards (cheekily referred to as the “Oscars of Science”). But in fact, Collins — who has […]
- By
Amy Poehler on Being an Airport Dad, Her Tina Fey Tour and Voicing Joy (Again)
Amy Poehler has spent much of this past year traveling around the country performing with best friend and comedy partner Tina Fey, and it gave her the chance to dig into one of her life’s passions: an airport routine. “I take my travel very seriously,” she says. “There’s a trend on TikTok where people make […]
- By
Wagner Moura’s Unsettling Experience Filming ‘Civil War’: “I Just Laid Down in the Grass and Cried”
In Civil War, the grisly, cautionary new film from A24 and Alex Garland, there’s a scene toward the end of the second act in which a machine gun-toting Jesse Plemons asks Wagner Moura, “What kind of American are you?” When Moura was filming in Atlanta two years ago, the stomach-turning threat inherent in the line […]
- By
Jess Hong Is in Netflix’s Biggest Show of the Year So Far — But Don’t Call Her a Star
When Jess Hong first stepped onto the set of 3 Body Problem, she was struck by its scale. Production was building what became the backdrop for the show’s pioneering virtual reality game, and Hong was face-to-face with some 300 giant LED screens that were all individually designed to portray the sky of an extraterrestrial planet. […]
- By
Nicholas Galitzine Is Getting Used to Dancing in Front of Strangers
“I am not used to going to so many parties,” Nicholas Galitzine says with a laugh as he signs on to Zoom a few days before the Oscars. Having recently relocated to Los Angeles from his native London, he’s been taking advantage of being at the center of the action — and he’s feeling it. […]
- By
Jake Lacy Is Done Hiding
A couple of years ago — around the time he garnered an Emmy nomination for The White Lotus — Jake Lacy started to get a little sick of himself. It wasn’t that he felt overexposed, but he was beginning to question whether he should be exposed at all. “I was realizing, no one needs to […]
- By
Kevin Tent on His 30-Year Partnership With Alexander Payne and Why He Knew ‘The Holdovers’ Would be a Hit
As Alexander Payne’s longtime editor, Kevin Tent is one of the very first people to see footage of each film. When he watched the first round of dailies come in from the Massachusetts set of The Holdovers, he was struck by the progression of star Paul Giamatti, with whom he first worked on Sideways two […]
- By
Leslie Jamison on Finding Peace Among the Discourse
When Leslie Jamison began publishing non-fiction books, she entertained a certain fantasy about what would happen when she allowed her work out into the world. “There was a part of me that imagined that I would, at some point, become a person who didn’t feel an intense amount of caring,” she says. “But one lesson […]
- By
‘Barbie’ Producer Tom Ackerley on Blending Artistic and Commercial Needs: “Trust Your Filmmaker”
Tom Ackerley and his production company LuckyChap — which he runs alongside wife Margot Robbie — aren’t new to the awards conversation. Their 2020 feature Promising Young Woman won an Oscar for best screenplay, their Netflix series Maid was nominated for three Emmys and their debut production I, Tonya nabbed star Allison Janney an Oscar […]
- By
Why Aidy Bryant Said Yes to Hosting the Spirit Awards — and Which SNL Co-Workers She Called on For Help
“Honestly,” says Aidy Bryant. “I never want to do anything.” The comedian, who left Saturday Night Live in 2022 after 10 years on the show, enjoys being picky in her work. So when her team approached with an offer to host the Spirit Awards, the first thing she asked herself was whether the gig was […]
- By
Marvel’s Newest Superhero Takes the Wheel
On the day of Geraldine Viswanathan’s THR interview, the actress is in the middle of an overstuffed week of promotion for her starring role in Ethan Coen’s latest film, Drive-Away Dolls, which, until that point, was the biggest thing to happen to her career. But Viswanathan, 28, also was just cast in Thunderbolts, Marvel Studios’ […]
- By