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“I think because I’ve been acting since I was a kid, it was never something I pursued or ever properly chose to do.”KIERAN CULKINThe Succession actor, to Vanity Fair, reflecting on his journey from being a child star to an Emmy-nominated actor, and how it wasn’t until recent years that he fell in love with the craft. “I have other shit to do!”MICHAEL KEATONThe Dopesick star, to Variety, admitting that he’s never seen a full version of a Marvel movie — or many movies or shows, for that matter — not because he’s “highbrow” but because he doesn’t have the time. “I’m even surprised by how much keeps coming out of our brains.”STEFANI ROBINSONThe What We Do in the Shadows co-showrunner, to LRM Online, on how the show’s writers room…

When THR reaches Peter Gould, he is in the throes of putting the final touches on the last episode of Better Call Saul. “It’s emotional,” says the showrunner of saying goodbye to the show he and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan announced in 2013 as a spinoff to the critically acclaimed AMC drama. As Gould looks back on six seasons, it is hard not to reflect on what the show might have been. “When Vince and I first started talking about this, we didn’t really know what we wanted to do with it. In fact, the first thing we pitched to AMC and Sony was more of a half-hour that would be very funny. It would be mostly Saul in his office giving advice to wacky clients,” says Gould. “That…

Severance director and executive producer Ben Stiller knew he had something special with Dan Erickson’s pilot script about five years ago. Initially, he signed on only to direct the pilot, but the material kept pulling him in, to the point where he directed six of the nine episodes of Apple TV+’s sci-fi series, which has now scored 14 Emmy nominations. The show stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, John Turturro, Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette and follows employees at Lumon Industries who agree to a “severance procedure” to separate their work lives from their personal lives. “I read it and I thought it was just so unique in terms of its tone, and it just jumped off the page to me,” says Stiller. The director talks to THR about…

Succession is one the biggest shows of the season, leading the Emmy noms with a whopping 25 nods. The HBO juggernaut’s success stems from the mind of creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong, who artfully blends heady Shakespearean dramatics with irreverent profanities to create a series at once sly, hilarious and devastating. Armstrong’s career is enigmatic in its scope: He was a writer on the hit British comedy Peep Show, Oscar-nominated for co-writing the 2009 film In the Loop, and a three-time Emmy winner for Succession — twice for writing the series, and for its 2020 win for outstanding drama series. Its latest nods come off of a heart-wrenching season three finale that saw (spoiler) Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) betray Siobhan Roy (Sarah Snook) in a shocking final showdown, as well…

KEY STATS THE 2022 NOMINEES Streamers represent five of the six shows honored in this category THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT HBO Max, season two; composer Blake Neely Neely was also nominated in 2021 for main title theme music. LOKI Disney+, season one; composer Natalie Holt First Disney+ Marvel show to top 1 billion streaming minutes in a single week ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Hulu, season one; composer Siddhartha Khosla Hulu’s most watched comedy (per the streamer) SCHMIGADOON! Apple TV+, season one; composer Christopher Willis 21 original songs were featured in the musical comedy series. SEVERANCE Apple TV+, season one; composer Theodore Shapiro Apple’s first nominee for best drama series SUCCESSION HBO, season three; composer Nicholas Britell 6.1 million multiplatform viewers, up 56 percent from season two 20 Years of Music…

Euphoria star Zendaya took on an executive producer role on the second season of the HBO drama series, which she says made her come out of her shell not only as an actor but behind the camera as well. The second season of the Sam Levinson-created show, which scored 16 Emmy nominations this year, including one for Zendaya’s acting, came with its own set of challenges that extended far beyond the parameters of COVID. Zendaya talks to THR about why she wanted to become an executive producer (she was already doing it during season one, sans official title), why the ending changed and what she hopes to see in season three. Congratulations on the show’s Emmy noms! Where were you when you found out? I was shooting in Boston and…

When Sydnee Washington was 11 years old, she acciden-tally burned down the house. The Brooklyn-born comedian was living with elderly relatives in Oakland, California, at the time, behaving, in her words, like a “little Black Dennis the Menace.” “If playing with fire was not my first time having a bit, I don’t know what was,” Washington, 37, tells THR. “You burn your house down and you’re either going to be a comedian or you’re going to jail.” Fortunately, Washington’s path led to the former, and now she is an Emmy nominee for her leading role on Bridesman, the first scripted series from Grindr. Washington plays Judith, a bride-to-be whose gay best friend (played by Jimmy Fowlie) tries to bed her fiancé and sabotage the wedding in order to keep Judith…

Ozark showrunner Chris Mundy and the shows’ writers sat down to write the fourth and final season of the Netflix series in February 2020, only to be shut down a few weeks later. Then, four episodes were added to the roster, with the season to be split into two parts. “We’d already sort of done it — we plotted it out, [and then] we had to stop and recalibrate,” Mundy tells THR. “The really hard part of that was you had to end episode seven in a way that felt like an ending and start at eight in a way that felt [like a beginning of a new season] because that’s the way people were going to experience it. That was super hard. And then, of course, we started filming…

The fourth season of Netflix’s sci-fi series Stranger Things is the streamer’s biggest yet — not just in scope, but in its run time. Across nine episodes, which were released in two parts on May 27 and July 1, each installment could have been its own stand-alone feature (the season-four finale clocked in at 2 hours and 30 minutes). But showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer say it was not planned that way. As they edited the season’s episodes, they realized there was simply too much story to fit into nine hourlong episodes. TV Academy voters didn’t balk at the undertaking of getting through season four — it has earned the series’ fourth Emmy nom for best drama series — and neither has its rabid fan base. The Duffer brothers spoke…

If Ted Lasso was the uplifting comedy that helped millions through the quarantine phase of the pandemic, Showtime’s Yellowjackets is the drama that reflects our collective survival. The series explores what happens when a high school girls soccer team’s plane crashes in the remote wilderness in a 1996-set story and a present-day timeline that points to a larger mystery that may explain how they survived and the long-term effects of the tragedy. Yellowjackets has translated its large and vocal online hive to seven Emmy nominations, including outstanding drama series; a pair of writing nods for its married creators, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson; and for two of its four central stars, Melanie Lynskey and Christina Ricci. The two creators open up about the show’s complicated casting process, twisty timelines and…