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For the first time in the few years I have been hosting my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, we are featuring not just one star but two in the same interview. Considering the close, 45-plus-year working connection between two of the most famous alumnus from Second City, it made perfect sense to me to invite both …

In 2018, Rachel Brosnahan came roaring out of the gate to win the Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the show itself made some history of its own winning eight Emmys overall. Brosnahan was nominated again for the second season, and now finds herself in a strong position to…

If you are a Lily Tomlin fan (and who isn’t), do not miss this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side as I go one-on-one with the great Tomlin. We cover her entire career, starting out with the first moment she contracted a touch of show business to what is happening with the final season of her…

Chris Evans joins me on today’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side and we cover it all, from one of his first jobs in the business (you won’t find it on his IMDb page) to his current role as Boston DA Andy Barber, whose teenage son is accused of murdering another student in Apple’s eight part limited…

To put it mildly, Helena Bonham Carter is a real hoot. Don’t miss this one, folks. Zooming in from England for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, the veteran star and two-time Oscar nominee is in high spirits as we talk about her Emmy-buzzed current role as Princess Margaret in Seasons 3…

After wrapping up her long-running hit ABC series Scandal, on which she worked 16-hour days, Kerry Washington only has plans to take some time off. But some irresistible acting opportunities, including Broadway, came her way almost immediately, and soon that planned vacation had to be put off a little longer. Now she…

Every now and then a role comes along for an actor that not only proves career-changing but also life changing, and that was the case for Kaitlyn Dever in the true story of rape victim  Marie Adler struggling to be believed in the Netflix limited series Unbelievable. The show, which also stars Toni Collette and…

With shooting still not resumed on the third season of HBO’s water-cooler hit drama series Succession, Jeremy Strong, who plays high-wired son Kendall Roy, has been sheltering in a small village in Denmark with his Danish wife and family during the coronavirus pandemic. That is where I caught up with him recently for…

“I always joke that my movie career is basically–I play the guy you don’t want to get laid.” That was just one of a series of observations Bradley Whitford shared with me when he appeared for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side. That movie career by the way has been active of late. Recent…

In this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, I start out by asking Gugu Mbatha-Raw about her full name and the meaning behind it. You can imagine that with such a distinct name she is asked often, and indeed she says she is. Gugulethu, her full first name, means “our pride.” That seems fitting…

Octavia Spencer starts out our conversation for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side by joking about how some of the parts she has played in the past few years seem to have something in common. Spencer says in The Help she was a maid, then in Hidden Figures she worked at NASA, and then in Th…

There is no question that Julia Garner is on a roll right now. In a conversation for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, Ozark’s “bad” girl Ruth talks about why the Netflix series has become instant water-cooler conversation and one of TV’s most watched shows, how the current pandemic may…