Casting Directors on Choosing Right Actors

The Crown

One can be hard-pressed to discover a casting director who doesn’t revel within the pleasure of discovering brand-new expertise. “It’s one of the thrilling elements of the job,” says Robert Sterne, casting director on The Crown, the sequence that over the course of six seasons has embraced each British nationwide treasures like Imelda Staunton, Olivia … Read more

John Hawkes Composed, Performed True Detective: Night Country Song

John Hawkes as corrupt cop Hank Prior in Issa López’s HBO anthology series.

Not solely did John Hawkes land his first Emmy nomination this 12 months, he really earned two: a supporting actor nom for enjoying the corrupt cop Hank Prior in True Detective: Night time Nation and one other for his track “No Use,” which he composed and carried out in character on the HBO anthology sequence. … Read more

Hans Zimmer on Barbra Streisand Singing End Credits for Tattooist of Auschwitz

Jonah Hauer-King plays Lali Sokolov in The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which scored two Emmy nominations for its music.

After collaborating on the rating for Prehistoric Planet, Hans Zimmer and Kara Talve have been tasked with composing the music, now nominated for 2 Emmys, for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the TV adaptation of Heather Morris’ novel of the identical title. The story follows a Slovak Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz and fell in … Read more

How the Fellow Travelers Love Story Broke LGBTQ+ Ground in the 2020’s

How the Fellow Travelers Love Story Broke LGBTQ+ Ground in the 2020’s

When Fellow Vacationers creator Ron Nyswaner thinks again to filming the sequence, he chokes up. The tears start to move because the writer-producer recollects being on set and making historical past with a sequence starring 4 brazenly homosexual actors — taking part in homosexual characters — together with 4 proud LGBTQ govt producers working behind … Read more

Angela Bassett on Why She First Declined Narrating Nat Geo’s ‘Queens’

Angela Bassett

In Nationwide Geographic’s Queens, an all-female manufacturing crew — “one of many huge attracts and highlights” of the mission, narrator Angela Bassett tells THR — examines the habits of animal matriarchies from Costa Rica to the Congo. Bassett, who obtained an Emmy nom for excellent narration for her work on the seven part-documentary for which … Read more

Girls5eva Writers on Peacock Cancellation, Finding New Home for Show

From left: Girls5eva stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps and Paula Pell.

Meredith Scardino, creator and showrunner of Girls5eva, isn’t any stranger to the Emmy winner’s circle. She obtained her begin in comedy writing in late evening and spent six years writing for The Colbert Report, the place she gained 4 Emmy trophies. She additionally labored as a writer-producer on the Tina Fey and Robert Carlock collection … Read more

‘Winning Time’ Director Talks Filming the 1983 Lakers Finals Loss

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Making historical past as the primary Black girl to be nominated for an Emmy for excellent directing in a drama sequence was the furthest factor from Salli Richardson-Whitfield’s thoughts the morning nominations have been introduced. “Successful Time wasn’t even on my radar,” the first-time Emmy nominee admits. Richardson-Whitfield’s supervisor had known as to let her … Read more

Ramy Youssef on Directing Honeydew Episode of ‘The Bear’, Will Poulter

From left: Lionel Boyce, Ramy Youssef, culinary producer Courtney Storer and Will Poulter filming on the set of The Bear.

There’s day-one followers of The Bear, after which there’s Ramy Youssef, a longtime good friend of Christopher Storer, the creator of the FX collection who was additionally an government producer of his Hulu comedy drama Ramy. “I’ve been a fan of The Bear since earlier than we knew if it was going to get picked … Read more

How the Famous Prince Andrew Interview Happen

How the Famous Prince Andrew Interview Happen

Image the scene. It’s November 2019, and I’m sitting in Buckingham Palace in England. I’m on an ornate golden chair, pushed up in opposition to the wall of the south drawing room, staring nervously on the barely frayed however elegant red-and-gold carpeted ground. The room is bigger than most London flats, and I’m simply 15 … Read more

Making Modern World as Quiet as Feudal Japan

Lord Toranaga (played by Hiroyuki Sanada) and his son Nagakado (Yuki Kura) in FX’s Shogun.

Emmy-nominated Shogun rerecording mixers Steve Pederson and Greg P. Russell teamed up, alongside sound supervisor Brian Armstrong and blend technician Greg Ortiz, to move audiences again to 1600s Japan. Pederson dealt with the dialogue and the music, whereas Russell labored on the sound results and environmental background sounds. The collection was filmed not in Japan … Read more