Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 18A - June 8, 2023 i The Hollywood Reporter

The moment I knew I wanted to make a film about Brooke Shields was when she handed me a hard drive. We had just met for the first time in person. I certainly enjoyed talking to her — she was intelligent, hilarious and deep — and I imagined she was generally someone I’d like being around. But Brooke Shields was still more idea than person to me at that point, a symbol of a time right around my childhood that I know I lived through but wasn’t sure if I related to or understood. I wondered what I could personally bring to this project that was unique, what about her life could be resonant for me. We were meeting specifically because Brooke wanted someone, a director, to come into her…

Father of the Bride (HBO/Max) This remake is the third iteration of this story (after the 1950 Spencer Tracy original and 1991 adaptation starring Steve Martin). This time, the tale of a possessive father preparing for his daughter’s wedding is set in the context of a Cuban American family living in Miami. Andy Garcia stars as the eponymous patriarch, Gloria Estefan portrays his wife and Adria Arjona plays the bride. Fire Island (Hulu) Andrew Ahn directs this sweet and edgy comedy written by star Joel Kim Booster, who modernizes Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a contemporary queer audience. The comedy of manners takes place on the gay enclave in Long Island, where Booster and co-stars (including Bowen Yang and Margaret Cho) spend a summer week partying, looking for love…

Wednesday showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar remember vividly the unusual circumstances of their first conversation with Tim Burton. The filmmaker, who they hoped they could convince to join their show, was piping in from a garden full of “life-size” dinosaur models at his U.K. home. “He was wandering around his dinosaur garden talking to us on FaceTime about his love of Wednesday Addams, and the idea that the script spoke to him in terms of being the ultimate outsider,” remembers Millar of this virtual meeting in 2020 with Burton. Just a week before, the duo were doubtful Burton would even meet with them. They had already written the entire season with the help of a pandemic-era virtual writers room, but wanted Burton’s expertise and special touches. “We were told…

HBO/Max’s Love & Death is, in the words of its director, Lesli Linka Glatter, about an American tragedy. Following Candy Montgomery (Elizabeth Olsen), the sevenpart limited series examines a Texas woman who seemingly had it all — the perfect family, the perfect marriage — but there was something darker under the surface. After she embarks on an affair with Jesse Plemons’ Allan Gore, the picture-perfect facade fades away. And the tragedy that unfolded is a shocking one: When Gore’s wife, Betty (Lily Rabe), discovers the affair, she — at least according to Montgomery’s testimony — attacked her husband’s mistress with an ax, at which point Montgomery snapped and struck Gore 41 times with the weapon. The 1980 murder has compelled readers since it was written about in Texas Monthly —…

In Amazon’s 1970s-set limited series Daisy Jones & The Six, the titular band’s song “Look at Us Now (Honeycomb)” reaches No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and propels them to superstardom. In real life, the tune helped them earn the top spot on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart in March. Back in 1992, the fictional band from Aaron Spelling’s The Heights found similar real-life success. The Fox show “about a group of diverse — boys, girls; black, white — working-class kids trying to make it collectively as a rock band and singularly as adults,” per THR’s review, produced a hit in “How Do You Talk to an Angel.” Written by Steve and Stephanie Tyrell and Barry Coffing, with lead vocals from castmember Jamie Walters (previously known for playing Donna’s…

SCRIPTED VARIETY SERIES A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO/Max) Robin Thede’s baby is in contention for a fourth season offering everything from a “Mary J. Brunch” to Slack-using gangs, with three new castmembers and guest stars including Colman Domingo and Issa Rae. Two prior seasons were nominated for this category’s predecessor. History of the World: Part II (Hulu) At 96, Mel Brooks has finally delivered a sequel to his cult-favorite 1981 film — though much of the heavy lifting was done by younger comics like Nick Kroll, who wrote, directed, produced and starred on the show, which references pop culture while revisiting historic events. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO/Max) Thanks to TV Academy rule changes, the once-a-week talker is now in the running for this Emmy, having previously…

At just 25, Sydney Sweeney is seemingly everywhere. Indeed, over the past year, she received two Emmy nominations, best supporting actress in a drama series for Euphoria and best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or TV movie for The White Lotus. She also landed a spot on Time magazine’s 100 Next list. And she is now garnering the best reviews of her career and, once again, Emmy buzz, for her portrayal of Reality Winner, a former NSA contractor who leaked government secrets, in Tina Satter’s Reality, which HBO released May 29. As a guest on Awards Chatter, Sweeney — described by Elle as “the TikTok demographic’s favorite bombshell” and “the queen of Gen Z characters, Hollywood’s newest ‘It’ girl” — reflects on her “overnight success” that was,…

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trouble is not about the end of a marriage — it’s about what leads us to want to tie our life to another’s, the idealism that goes along with lifelong commitment and the reincarnation that inevitably takes place in relationships over time. “Taffy always says, ‘This is not a story about divorce. This is a story about marriage,’ ” says director Valerie Faris. “[Fleishman] makes you realize how much work it is to be in a good relationship and how easy it is for it to just fall apart, too.” Faris and her directing partner — and husband — Jonathan Dayton met in the late 1970s at UCLA’s film school. They began directing together shortly thereafter and are known for their work on the Oscar-winning…

Jury Duty (Freevee) Who would have guessed that The Joe Schmo Show, a series that aired three seasons on the since-renamed Spike network, would be TV’s most influential format of 2022 and 2023? That series, in which an ordinary civilian — a “Joe Schmo,” if you will — is pranked/hoaxed/conned/scammed into believing he was part of a reality show when he was actually surrounded by a crew of actors, has its potent DNA in Freevee’s Jury Duty. Created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, the series centers on an ordinary guy named Ronald, whom producers recruited to participate in what he’s told is a reality series about the inner workings of the legal system and the jury process. Ronald is curious about doing his civic duty, but the thing he…

EVERYTHING SUCKS! (2018) Sweeney starred in 10 episodes of the series created by Ben York Jones and Michael Mohan. The show, which parodies teen culture in the mid-1990s, was canceled in 2018 after one season. EUPHORIA (2019-) Sweeney plays Cassie Howard on the hit HBO series created by Sam Levinson. Last year, She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the show. THE WHITE LOTUS (2021) Sweeney played the snarky and outspoken Olivia Mossbacher on the Hawaii-set first season of Mike White’s series. The cast included Jennifer Coolidge, Connie Britton, Murray Bartlett, Steve Zahn and Brittany O’Grady (pictured, right).…

Contrary to the rock-storytelling trope of the entourage hanger-on or the musician’s arm candy, Camila Morrone’s character in Daisy Jones & The Six, Camila Dunne, is anything but one-dimensional. She may be the wife of rising rock star Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), but she’s never merely decorative, nor a victim, Morrone tells THR. Instead, she’s a “quiet, subdued, secretly powerful woman. … A powerhouse.” Prime Video’s Daisy Jones, based on the book of the same name by Taylor Jenkins Reid, follows the rise and fall of a fictional rock band in the late 1970s. Morrone’s Camila is the band’s photographer and Billy’s wife; she struggles with her husband’s drug use and relationship with Riley Keough’s character, Daisy. Morrone talks to THR about her first chemistry reads with Keough, what attracted…