Scott Cooper started out as an actor, but, after directing his first film, 2009’s Crazy Heart, and seeing how Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall and Maggie Gyllenhaal did it, he tells me he knew then he would never go back to that side of the camera. Since…

Derek Cianfrance has taken his time to make movies he wants to make. It paid off with 2010’s Blue Valentine, 2012’s The Place Beyond the Pines, and 2017’s The Light Between the Oceans. In 2020, he made the Emmy-winning HBO limited series I Know This Much…

Recently, with his latest movie musical adaptation Kiss of the Spider Woman then about to open in theaters, I sat down with one of the great champions of the film musical, Bill Condon, to talk about not just about that but also everything going on in…

Jason Isaacs has a long career as an actor. You have seen him in some high-profile movies over the past three decades including Dragonheart, Event Horizon, Armageddon, Black Hawk Down, Peter Pan (as Captain Hook), Star Trek: Discovery, Green Zone, The Pa…

Alan Cumming is humming. He really is one-stop shopping for showbiz. Currently up for two more Emmys for his hit Peacock reality competition series The Traitors, he is hoping to repeat last year's win for the show (on which he is also a producer)…

Ben Stiller is riding high this season behind the camera. As executive producer/director of Apple TV+’s Severance, he has seen his series explode in its long-awaited second season with a leading 27 Emmy nominations including two for him (as producer of…

Brian Tyree Henry is no newcomer to success as an actor, or to awards seasons, as he has been flirting in EGOT territory with a 2023 Oscar nomination for his moving role opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Causeway, a Tony nomination for his 2018 Broadway…

This season, Natasha Rothwell got to go where few have ever gone when she returned to play Belinda Lindsey on HBO’s The White Lotus, matching a feat only Jennifer Coolidge accomplished among actors on the show by landing Emmy nominations in two separate…

Ike Barinholtz is becoming a man for all (television) seasons. As an actor, writer, creator, director, executive producer and even game show icon, it appears Barinholtz can do it all. And he is doing it all. He stars with Seth Rogen in Apple TV+’s…

Stephen Graham has been getting more attention that ever this season as the father in the globally acclaimed Netflix limited series Adolescence, playing as a man whose family is torn apart after his 13-year-old son is accused of murdering a female…

Multiple Emmy winner Paul W. Downs joins me for this edition of my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens to talk all things Hacks from beginning to end(?) As co-creator, Executive Producer, Writer, sometimes director, and all times co-star as Jimmy…

Lesli Linka Glatter has had quite the charmed career as a director. After beginning as a modern dancer and choreographer, she switched lanes and directed her first project in 1985, a live-action short called Tales of Meeting and Parting. It won her an…