Innholdsfortegnelse for Emmy Special Issue 25B August 2019 i The Hollywood Reporter

Nearly 40 years ago, Ted Danson was one of America’s biggest stars, playing Sam Malone on Cheers. After 11 seasons, he transitioned to other popular roles through the ’90s and early 2000s — long-running sitcom Becker, legal thriller Damages, weirdo comedy Bored to Death, procedural CSI and crime anthology Fargo. But arguably, his most zeitgeisty turn in decades has been as spritely reformed demon Michael on NBC’s The Good Place, a sitcom that explores the afterlife. For this limber performance, he scored his 17th Emmy nom (and second for the role). Danson, 71, isn’t the only Hollywood veteran on the 2019 Emmy roster. From comedienne Catherine O’Hara, 65 (Schitt’s Creek), to Oscar winner Alan Arkin, 85 (The Kominsky Method), seasoned performers not only are finding new opportunities on TV but…

FOSSE/VERDON FX Research and authenticity were the driving forces behind creating FX’s period miniseries about the lives of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, which starts with Fosse’s 1969 big-screen directorial debut, Sweet Charity, and wraps in the late ’80s. “I had been a big fan of Fosse’s work since seeing All That Jazz and read the biography [Fosse, by Sam Wasson] on which this is based, so I was pretty familiar with the story,” says production designer Alex DiGerlando, adding that he rewatched the films and did an extensive amount of additional research. He even connected with Fosse and Verdon’s daughter, Nicole Fosse, who shared stories and pictures to inform the design for sets including their home. Nicole “was adamant that when Bob moves out of his home, there would…

It’s been a whirlwind year for Icelandic composer Hildur Gudnadóttir. On top of scoring Tom Phillips’ Joker film (premiering at the Venice Film Festival), the 36-year-old composer and cellist earned her first Emmy nomination, for scoring HBO’s Chernobyl. The five-part HBO miniseries, nominated for 19 Emmy awards, follows the catastrophic 1986 nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the USSR. The series captures the shock and terror of the initial disaster as well as the nuclear and political fallout during the subsequent weeks. The lone female nominee in either of the two Emmy scoring categories (limited series Escape at Dannemora, Good Omens, True Detective and When They See Us are also nominated in her category), Gudnadóttir began working on Chernobyl well before the series started filming.…

Fans of Game of Thrones may still be engaged in heated debate over whether Daenerys Targaryen’s (Emilia Clarke) turn to the dark side was sufficiently foreshadowed, but there is one person to whom the Mother of Dragons’ return to her Targaryen roots is clear as day. “It’s somewhere I wouldn’t have predicted her going but it was amazing to see how easily it seemed to develop out of the direction that her costumes had been heading,” says costume designer Michele Clapton. From the time Daenerys had escaped her brother’s dominance in season one, Clapton says the character was constantly adapting her looks from those around her. “She first adopted the Dothraki blue as her color and the leather trousers and boots inspired by Khal Drogo, which gave agility and strength,”…

Everybody is singing her song. The CW’s musical comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ends with the central character, Rebecca Bunch, portrayed by series creator Rachel Bloom, telling her loved ones, “This is a song I wrote,” and readying herself to play the piano. Over the series’ run, Bloom, Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen penned 157 songs, all acting as a “prequel” to that one moment, Bloom says. One thread connecting song to song was Rebecca’s mental health struggles, from finding relief at receiving “A Diagnosis” of borderline personality disorder in season three to discovering that “Antidepressants Are So Not a Big Deal” in season four. Picking up two Emmy nods for original music and lyrics for “Antidepressants” and for original main title theme music for season four’s “Meet Rebecca,” Bloom shares…

There’s a unique pressure that comes with casting for shows based on true stories. When working on a series based on real people — often faces that are very familiar to the general public — the casting director must find the right actor to capture not just that person’s look but their spirit as well. Most of the nominated casting directors THR spoke with acknowledge that the key is matching a person’s essence — a word nearly all of them used — which is not something that can be achieved through hair and makeup alone, or even when top-notch acting is added to the mix. None of these pros could say exactly how they do it, but they all agree: When you know, you just know. “When you see the…

In an era when TV’s top series are set in a diverse array of eras, it’s no longer enough to pull out a crimper and some blue eye shadow and call it the ’80s. With high-definition and cinema-quality production values now the prevailing TV standards, Emmycaliber hair and makeup teams are crafting cosmetic color palettes and meticulously coiffed dos to perfectly reflect whatever period a show’s characters inhabit. GLOW’s makeup department head, Lana Horochowski, is a self-proclaimed “child of the ’80s” who leaned hard into the show’s era and its famously over-the-top aesthetic — given even more extreme license thanks to the world of wrestling. “It’s so rare in our career that we get to play with so much color,” she says. “On a regular television show, everybody just wants…

In the second episode of Game of Thrones’ final season, the HBO fantasy drama delivered what just might be its single happiest moment: Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth, receiving a knighthood at the hands (or hand, rather) of the man she loves, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). It comes in the form of an impromptu ceremony on the evening of a great battle, one which no one expects to survive, and not an occasion for a smile. And yet, there it is, as Brienne beams, finally and officially a “Ser.” Months later, the hit series once again produced a happy surprise surrounding Westeros’ wandering warrior Brienne: an Emmy nomination for Christie, 40, one of the 10 nominations Game of Thrones received in the acting categories for its final season. What’s…