Maya Rudolph, the beloved, award-winning actress, comic and producer, would be the visitor of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in entrance of a dwell viewers on the San Vicente Bungalows on Wednesday night.
Rudolph, who’s heading in to this 12 months’s Emmys with 4 nominations unfold throughout three packages — finest comedy actress for Apple TV+’s Loot, finest visitor actress and finest music/lyrics for NBC’s Saturday Night time Stay and finest character voiceover efficiency for Netflix’s Huge Mouth — will, over the course of an hour, talk about her life, profession, nominated tasks and ideas on the state of comedy right now.
Chosen earlier this 12 months as one in every of Time journal’s 100 most influential individuals on the earth, Rudolph first burst onto the scene across the flip of the century on SNL. She then went on to star in notable tasks on screens huge (together with Bridesmaids and Wine Nation) and small (reminiscent of Maya & Marty, The Good Place). Since 2022, she has been a government producer and the principal star of Loot, a laugh-out-loud comedy on which she performs a lady who divorces a billionaire and winds up with half of his cash, after which does her finest to navigate life amongst common individuals, together with those that work for and profit from her philanthropic basis.
The Awards Chatter podcast, which debuted in 2015, has welcomed greater than 500 visitors for career-retrospective conversations, together with Hollywood A-listers Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Lawrence, Lorne Michaels, Carol Burnett, Jerry Seinfeld, Cate Blanchett, Bono, Penélope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Dolly Parton, Norman Lear, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Elton John, Sophia Loren, Jimmy Fallon, Billie Eilish, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Spike Lee, Dua Lipa, Conan O’Brien, Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, David Letterman, Julianne Moore, Eddie Murphy, Olivia Rodrigo, Al Pacino, Ava DuVernay, Stephen Colbert, Selena Gomez, Jimmy Kimmel, Glenn Shut, Jay Leno, Michelle Williams, Michael Douglas and Sydney Sweeney; and non-showbiz visitors reminiscent of Malala Yousafzai, Invoice Gates, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Buzz Aldrin, Gloria Steinem, Kobe Bryant, Fran Lebowitz, José Andrés and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
