Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 3 November 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

It hasn’t been that long since the Golden Globes TV actress field was thin enough that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could be swayed into such oddball nominations as Callie Thorne for Necessary Roughness or Piper Perabo for Covert Affairs. Well played, USA. And it’s been only a few years since the SAG Award for female actor in a drama could go to Maggie Smith for five minutes of expert sarcasm on Downton Abbey. Well, everybody loves a dame. Now, as a winter of award nominations looms, it’s the best actress races that are the most competitive on the TV side — the categories most likely to be packed with A-list powerhouses and yet still pass over a chorus of the medium’s finest work. There’s little worry that Hulu’s breakthrough…

Entering the cavernous Culver City set of Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here is like walking into a time vortex. Guests are instantly whisked back to the 1970s as they become engulfed in a bellbottomed, sideburn-sporting sea of extras. A nearby coffee table even has a few contemporaneous issues of The Hollywood Reporter (then a daily publication) strewn across it, one of which features a front-page story about a new hit movie called Star Wars. On this afternoon in November 2016, the ensemble dramedy chronicling the birth of modern stand-up, executive produced by Jim Carrey, is shooting a scene for its season-one finale. Castmember Erik Griffin, one of many comedian-actors on the series, turns a set into a singing routine, and suddenly the dozens of background actors are grooving to the…

James Franco The Deuce (HBO) He plays two antiheroes for the price of one: twins Frankie and Vincent Martino, both mixed up with the mob in NYC. Brendan Gleeson Mr. Mercedes (Audience) Detective Bill Hodges’ alcoholism and other vices make him hard to like in the adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. Bob Odenkirk Better Call Saul (AMC) The ethically questionable ways of Odenkirk’s character pale in comparison to his antihero predecessor, Walter White. Liev Schreiber Ray Donovan (Showtime) This Hollywood fixer has shown that he’ll do just about anything to get his firm’s rich and famous clients off scot-free.…

Elisabeth Moss, Top of the Lake: China Girl Before The Handmaid’s Tale broke her Emmy dry spell, Moss took home a Golden Globe in 2014 for her performance in season one of the Jane Campion drama. She reprised her role as Australian detective Robin Griffin in season two opposite Nicole Kidman and Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie. Carrie Coon, Fargo In addition to her breakthrough role in The Leftovers, Coon had a banner year thanks to her turn in the third (and maybe final?) season of the FX anthology as Edna Valley Police Chief Gloria Burgle. The adaptation of the Coen brothers classic won the 2014 Emmy for best miniseries and a Golden Globe for star Billy Bob Thornton the following year. Claire Danes, Homeland The Showtime star already has…

James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Deuce) Franco plays twins who get caught up in the mob, and Gyllenhaal (right) plays a Times Square prostitute in The Wire creator David Simon’s easily digestible (just eight episodes) show about the rise of the porn industry in 1970s New York, which can expect a big push from HBO. Alison Brie (GLOW) The Community and Mad Men alum shines as a struggling actress turned wrestler in this tremendously well-reviewed Netflix dramedy about the women’s wrestling circuit in the 1980s, which derives its title from the circuit’s name, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany (Mindhunter) On Netflix’s cinematic 1970s-set crime drama, which counts David Fincher and Charlize Theron among its producers, Groff (right) and McCallany portray FBI special agents who conduct…

Issa Rae The Insecure star, 32, stepped out in a custom silk crepe Vera Wang Collection at the 2017 Emmys. Madeline Brewer The Handmaid’s Tale actress, 25, donned Thai Nguyen’s colorful jumpsuit at the BAFTA Los Angeles TV Tea Party. Chrissy Metz This Is Us’ breakout lead, 37, wore a printed minidress at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Grants Banquet. Claire Foy The 33-year-old’s sleek black Oscar de la Renta jumpsuit with crystal knot detailing at the 2017 Emmys was a best-dressed-list home run.…

Dynasty (The CW) THE BEGINNING Dynasty (1981-89, ABC) FANTASY FIGURES There are plenty of obvious differences. The new Krystle is actually Cristal and Latina. The new Sammy Jo is Sam and a gay man. The new Carringtons and Colbys battle it out in Atlanta, not Denver. However, according to executive producer Esther Shapiro, who has been a part of both Dynastys, “The show still appeals to females of all ages who want fantasy in their lives. We had to shop and cook and clean, but we didn’t participate in Wall Street or wars or the big stuff men do. We have been left to [our] own fantasies, so women enjoy seeing females who are strong and powerful.” THINGS CHANGE You’d think that living in an era far more liberated than when…

Timing can be everything. And with all of Hollywood now under a microscope for sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault, David Simon is not sure that his HBO show about sex workers would have gone over very well had it debuted in November and not August. “We knew we hadn’t made something that was exploitative,” says The Deuce’s co-creator. “The fact that it has nudity and shows exploitative nature on the part of men doesn’t in any way make it exploitative. But can you imagine if we had followed the revelations about Harvey? I guarantee you half of the people, without even waiting to see it, would have taken in the headlines and said, ‘See, this is the kind of stuff Hollywood makes.’” But what Simon and collaborator George Pelecanos…

Production is in full swing on season two of the CBS All Access legal drama The Good Fight, but there’s one person conspicuously absent from the show’s Brooklyn set on this November day: star Christine Baranski, who plays formidable lawyer Diane Lockhart. Instead, the leading lady is thousands of miles away, singing and dancing on the Croatia set of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. “She might be a little more tan,” co-creator and co-showrunner Robert King jokes of how Diane’s absence will be addressed in season two. (In reality, the first three episodes of the season are being shot around Baranski until her mid-November return.) “It’s kind of strange to know that the ship has set sail, and I’m still on dry land here, but it’s a nice problem…

“There is no shortcut in playing the queen.” CLAIRE FOY The Crown star, offering advice to Olivia Colman, who will take over the role of Queen Elizabeth II for season three of the Netflix drama. “I think we’ve got it.” MILLIE BOBBY BROWN The Stranger Things actress, stopping her InStyle cover photo shoot after she decided that they had what they needed. “She thought it was going to end at the inauguration.” BELLAMY YOUNG The Scandal star, revealing to Wendy Williams how showrunner Shonda Rhimes intended for the political soap to finish. “Ugh, this douchebag.” JUSTIN HARTLEY The This Is Us star, discussing in an Elle interview what viewers thought of his character in the beginning. “I started to entertain the notion of life after Shameless for me.” WILLIAM H. MACY The star…

The eveningwear-clad teenagers handing out trophies in background shots of the Golden Globes telecast have been known as Miss (or Mr.) Golden Globes since 1963. The title is bequeathed to the daughters (and sometimes sons) of Hollywood royalty — think Dern, Eastwood, Stallone — who are tasked with being the face of the HFPA and literally rolling out the red carpet at the Beverly Hills Hilton a few days ahead of the annual awards show. But for the 2018 event, the role has been rebranded as the Golden Globes Ambassador — and while the traditional moniker has been abandoned, the star power hasn’t. This year’s ambassador is Simone Garcia Johnson, the daughter of wrestler turned megastar Dwayne Johnson and manager-producer Dany Garcia (while they’re no longer married, Garcia is Johnson’s…

It’s equally remarkable that the methodical and unpredictable David Lynch directed all 18 episodes of this summer’s Twin Peaks revival and that Showtime let the esoteric auteur deliver a haunting, confounding, towering series that seemed close to unfiltered. Nightmarish surrealism blended with musical performances from the likes of Eddie Vedder and was spiked with the sadness of several major castmembers’ deaths. In his amiably evasive fashion, Lynch discussed how he helmed all 18 hours and his newfound love for television. After the original Twin Peaks run and the Mulholland Dr. pilot, I imagine that you had an ambivalent response toward TV. Today, where do you see the match between your storytelling instincts and TV? I love a continuing story, and I think that feature film is going through a troubled…

Jason Bateman was determined to direct all 10 episodes of Netflix’s new series Ozark, but with the heavy lifting of playing leading man Marty Byrde (a financial adviser who finds himself in trouble with a Mexican drug lord and at times caught among drugs, death and dadhood), there just wasn’t enough time in production for the juggling act. “It pained me not to do all of them because that was the challenge I was looking for,” says Bateman, 48 and himself a dad of two, who ended up helming four episodes and also executive produced the series. With the show already renewed for a second season, Bateman reflects on his time in the director’s chair and hints at what’s next for Marty. As a director, what did you find that…

Sarah Paulson won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her turn as prosecutor Marcia Clark in the scripted true crime saga The People v. O.J. Simpson. Now, Edie Falco is taking a page from Paulson’s playbook, wig and all, with her portrayal of real-life lawyer Leslie Abramson in NBC’s Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders. The story centers on the infamous 1993 trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were accused of brutally murdering their parents in Beverly Hills. Falco, 54, plays Abramson, who served as their defense lawyer. (The real Abramson declined to participate in the production, and Falco never met her.) In a late October interview with THR, the Sopranos and Nurse Jackie vet and mom of two spoke about…