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‘Beef’ Creator-Director Lee Sung Jin On How The Dark, Subversive Comedy Smashed Netflix Charts, Addressed A Mental Health Crisis And Connected With A Global Audience
When Lee Sung Jin's limited series Beef wrapped production back in 2022, the cast and crew were so happy with the profound camaraderie they'd developed that they've attempted to meet for dinner at least once a week ever since — some irony for a story originally borne out of anger and resentment.
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‘All Of Us Strangers’ Star Claire Foy Tells Some Hard Truths In Director Andrew Haigh’s Supernatural Love Story
Actress Claire Foy is ready and braced for a lot of personal reactions to her latest film All of Us Strangers. Adapted from Taichi Yamada's novel Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh's emotional reimagining finds gay screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) working on a script inspired by a devastating…
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On My Screen: ‘Saltburn’ Director Emerald Fennell On Her Desire To Play A Super Villian, The Most Fun She’s Had On Set & Her Wish To Remake ‘Jurassic Park’ As An Erotic Love Story
Following her Best Original Screenplay win for Promising Young Woman, Saltburn, Emerald Fennell's sophomore feature, presents a gothic tale of obsession and excess, starring Barry Keoghan as Oliver, a social-climbing Oxford student obsessed with the aristocratic Felix (Jacob Elordi). The multi-hyphenate…
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‘The Whale’ Star Brendan Fraser On Why His Oscar-Nominated Role Was Worth The Wait: “I Didn’t Have The Life Experience”
"Sorry I'm a few minutes late, I'm just trying to situate my lap dog," apologizes Brendan Fraser from his upstate New York home. "Isn't it funny in this age of Zoom, we can't pretend we're not at home anymore," he laughs.
Being home must be really nice for the actor after spending countless days on…
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‘The Whale’ Star Hong Chau On Going From Wanting To Stay Home And Do Nothing To Making Four Films: “It Was A Really Nutty Year For Me”
Hong Chau stole the show as a fierce one-legged Vietnamese activist in Alexander Payne's 2017 star-packed social satire Downsizing. Now, in Darren Aronofsky's The Whale, she's doing it again: this time she plays Liz, a no-nonsense caregiver who helps reclusive 600-pound English professor Charlie (Brendan…
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‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Star Ke Huy Quan On Getting A Second Chance To Pursue His Dream: “I’m Always Grateful”
The mid-80s were magical for Ke Huy Quan. Not only was he chosen by Steven Spielberg to co-star with Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the young Vietnamese-American actor followed that up with The Goonies too. But with very few roles for Asian actors at that time, Quan decided to stop…
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Jeremy Pope On How His “Most Demanding” Role In ‘The Inspection’ Helped Him Connect More With His Blackness And Queerness
Two-time Tony nominee Jeremy Pope was immediately drawn to the semi-autobiographical story of Ellis French, who joins the Marines thinking that if he dies in combat, at least he's worth more as a Black gay man in uniform than one who dies on the streets. Though Jeremy had stints on Ryan Murphy's Hollywood…
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‘Squid Game’ Creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk On Breaking Hollywood’s Rules To Ignite A Global Phenomenon
Back in 2008, Hwang Dong-hyuk never imagined that his feature script, about a group of desperate people playing a game of life or death, would see the light of day. But a decade later, his idea for Squid Game was pitched as a series to Netflix, and much to his surprise, the thriller quickly turned into a global…
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The Partnership: ‘Hacks’ Creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs & Jen Statsky On What Inspired The Show, What’s Next & Who Might Get A Spinoff
Hacks was first born on a road trip to a Monster Jam rally back in 2015. It was during the drive that couple Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello and their close friend Jen Statsky discussed the relative invisibility of female comedians compared to their male counterparts. Having bonded as co-writers, producers, and in the…
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‘West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose: The Spirit Of Anita “Just Jumped Out To Me And Sat On My Chest”
Ten years as a working actress on Broadway has given Ariana DeBose a grounded approach to the swell of accolades accompanying her performance as the iconic Anita in Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Following a legacy of iconic performances, both on stage and film, DeBose is allowing herself to pave her…
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The Long Road To Oscar 2022: The Journey Of Each Best Picture Nominee
Each of this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees has survived a journey to cross the finish line, before earning the Academy's consideration. Here's how they came together.
Deadline's Contenders Film: The Nominees Streaming Site
Belfast
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh began work on Belfast at the beginning of 2020…
How ‘WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen Brought Her MCU Role To The Small Screen: “It Was Like A Dream”
When Elizabeth Olsen was first pitched the idea of taking her character Wanda Maximoff into the suburbs with her late android husband Vision, played by Paul Bettany, she wasn't quite sure how to wrap her head around it, let alone understand the couple's inexplicable reunion. The president of Marvel Studios, Kevin…
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