In making the film Lee, about World War II correspondent Lee Miller, Kate Winslet chose to champion a woman who simply refused to become what society dictated. Against all odds, shucking off her reputation as a fashion model, at a time when women were not allowed to work with the British Army, Miller…

Zoe Saldaña had dreamed of working with Jacques Audiard when she learned he was making Emilia Pérez—his Spanish language female-led dramedy musical. Audiard had initially set out to cast women in their early 20s, before realizing the roles in his film required actors with more lived experience. He lit…

People are always on a journey in the films of Walter Salles. His 1998 breakout film Central Station saw an abandoned nine-year-old go looking for the father he’s never known, while 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries had a carefree young Che Guevara becoming radicalized while searching for the soul of South…

Moses Ingram first came to viewers' attention as Jolene, the best friend of Anya Taylor-Joy's character in The Queen's Gambit, a role that earned Ingram an Emmy nomination. After parts in Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Tragedy of Macbeth and Ambulance, the Baltimore native returned to home turf for a starring role…

Having started her career in action-heavy films like Domino, King Arthur and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Keira Knightley decided in her early 20s to step away from the stunts. "I wanted to do stuff that was about words," says Knightley. "Also, when you’re doing action films, generally…

In real life, O-T Fagbenle is quick to laugh, which is a departure from the characters that have put the actor on the map. Since 2017, the native Brit has played the perpetually worried husband of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) on The Handmaid's Tale. He next took on the challenge of portraying Barack…

After working on many Looney Tunes shorts, director Peter Browngardt decided to take on the challenge of bringing the characters into a feature length film with The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Although he has experience with the characters at this point, Browngardt still says the…

Joshua Jackson's foray into dark drama was never by design. "It wasn’t like I sat down and was like, 'I’m going to be heavy in my thirties,'” says the star of shows like The Affair, Dr. Death and Fatal Attraction. "Murder, adultery, drug addiction—I had the whole basket of bad things." In Doctor Odyssey…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains plot details for the film A Real Pain If you can believe it, writer-director and star Jesse Eisenberg never meant to hurt you with his latest dark comedy, A Real Pain. Centered around two cousins, David (Eisenberg), a buttoned-up online ads salesman, and Benji…

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for all six episodes of Bad Sisters that are available to stream on Apple TV+ thus far. Apple TV+'s Bad Sisters has two episodes left to go in its second season, which involves several new wild card characters in a murder mystery different from that of…

What if the story of how you met your husband became a runaway hit Netflix series starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody? This is the current reality for Nobody Wants This creator Erin Foster. Foster has plenty in common with Bell's character of Joanne—both host a podcast with their sister and both fell in…

The Swiss-Peruvian-Spain co-production Queens, co-written and directed by Klaudia Reynicke, is set amidst the grueling reign of Alberto Fujimori's dictatorship in the 1990s. During the social and political unrest, the story centers on the goings-on of an unconventional family living in Lima. Elena (Jimena…