Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 17A - June 6, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

It’s a Thursday morning and I’m barely awake when my phone greets me with a disturbing response to the fourth episode of Under the Bridge: tweet after tweet expressing anger, even hatred, toward Reena Virk. Someone saying, “I’m not even mad she gets killed.” I’m upset, but I wish I could say that I’m surprised. Sometime around 2004, as the Under the Bridge book I adapted was being published, Rebecca Godfrey made the decision not to include the story of how Reena ended up in foster care. She was concerned that this particular fact would make Reena too unlikable to garner sympathy from a reader. This choice, within the context of a book that largely relied on readers’ ability to sympathize with Reena’s murderers, is worth examining. No doubt pressured…

One of the most talked-about scenes from Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen is the one in which a cocaine-fueled Freddy Horniman, played by Daniel Ings, dances in a chicken costume to wipe out a debt he owes to a gang of drug dealers. He’s forced to fly like a chicken and eat imaginary seeds off the ground — and that scene, says Ings, was almost entirely unscripted. “There was a version of it in the script, but the ending was structured slightly differently, it was more comic and more of an aside, like the plot of the episode is over and you get to see this moment where the silly guy gets changed,” he tells THR. Ings says he got more and more exhausted as he had to film the scene…

Jessica Gunning is having a moment. The veteran actress has earned rave reviews for playing unhinged stalker Martha in Netflix’s critically acclaimed limited series Baby Reindeer. It’s a part she’s embracing as the role of a lifetime, yet the West Yorkshire native, 38, has been acting ever since graduating from drama school at London’s Rose Bruford College. Her long list of credits includes Doctor Who, White Heat, The Outlaws and Pride. Baby Reindeer was created and written by Richard Gadd, inspired by his real-life experiences, and he stars as Donny Dunn, a struggling comedian who encounters a lonely woman at the bar where he works. The chance encounter, during which he offers her a free cup of tea, spirals over several months as Martha is revealed to be a dangerous…

Charlie Brooker anticipates a lot of things. As the creator and writer of Black Mirror, his Emmy-winning sci-fi Netflix series has gone on to predict everything from new Apple tech to the election of a certain U.S. president. With the season-six episode “Joan Is Awful,” Brooker knew the AI-centered story would be timely. But even his dystopian crystal ball couldn’t have foreseen that the Ally Pankiw-directed installment starring Annie Murphy and Salma Hayek would become a flashpoint in Hollywood’s AI battle. “A couple of times on the show, there’s been something I’ve written and then something happens in the real world similar-ish,” explains Brooker. “Narcissistically, you start to feel like, ‘This is too big a coincidence. I feel like I’m living in a simulation.’” Brooker says he wrote the episode…

Mirren Gordon-Crozier has worked with Brie Larson on four projects in the past 10 years, beginning with the actress’ breakout role in the 2013 independent drama Short Term 12. Yet when the costume designer heard Larson’s next lead part was in a period TV series, “I almost fell to the ground,” she says. What most excited Gordon-Crozier about coming on board was the span from 1949 to 1957 that’s covered in Lessons in Chemistry, the Apple TV+ adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ novel of the same name in which Larson stars as Elizabeth Zott, a chemist turned cooking show star who’s navigating stifling gender norms amid love and loss. Gordon-Crozier talked with THR about the defining style of that period and the story Zott’s clothes tell in the series. Were there…

After racking up three Emmy nominations for her fan-favorite comedic performance in Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso, Juno Temple took a dramatic turn leading the ensemble cast of FX’s Fargo season five, playing a seemingly “Minnesota nice” housewife with a secret dark past and some particularly unrefined survival instincts. For the 34-year-old British actress, going from comedy to drama is hardly unusual, having played a widely diverse range of supporting parts over the years, from 2007’s Atonement to 2018’s Bravo series Dirty John. But with the inherent duality of Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, aka Nadine Tillman, a woman who sometimes has to be simultaneously nurturing and vicious, Fargo put her ability to switch roles to the test. What surprised you the most about what you thought working on Fargo would be like…

The Morning Show has a knack for writing itself into a corner. “It requires a lot of junk food to manage the stress,” says executive producer Charlotte Stoudt. “Part of me was like, ‘Who is that season three showrunner? I have a few words for her!’” As said season three showrunner, Stoudt is joking. She’s now running her second writers room for the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ series, which will shoot its fourth season this summer. “We’re still writing, still breaking story. We’re very much in the middle of it,” she says, thinking back to where she left her characters in the season three finale, and adds with a laugh, “We caused ourselves a lot of problems.” The WGA Award-winning writer (Fosse/Verdon, Homeland, House of Cards) took over the showrunning reins…

In Netflix’s Scoop, Gillian Anderson plays Emily Maitlis, the real-life former BBC host who, on Nov. 16, 2019, left Prince Andrew squirming as she probed him over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. During the interview, Andrew (Rufus Sewell) infamously failed to distance himself from the convicted sex trafficker, only describing Epstein’s behavior as “unbecoming” and claiming innocence from his own allegations of sexual abuse on account of a cryptic condition in which he did not sweat. (Andrew’s accuser described him as being sweaty when they allegedly danced together at a London nightclub.) Maitlis maintained her composure as she watched — and in many ways provoked — the train wreck in front of her. “It was exactly the right way for her to pitch it,” Anderson says. The result made headlines…

CORY ELLISON (Billy Crudup) What will Billy Crudup’s character do now that he has been cast out of UBA? “It’s interesting to watch people hustle,” says showrunner Charlotte Stoudt. “Things are so uncertain. There are questions about our lives’ stability, and we’re past the idea that there is stability for privileged people. How Cory dances through is a fun question.” PAUL MARKS (Jon Hamm) “If someone is not dead, they are still in the universe,” says Stoudt, not ruling out a return for Alex’s ex, played by Jon Hamm. “They’re still there. They haven’t disappeared forever. That will apply to a number of people this year.” Aniston adds, “I think the audience loved him and would love to see more of Paul. So, we’re figuring that out.” STELLA BAK AND…

At the end of season two of The Gilded Age, a battle between two opera houses — the Metropolitan Opera and the Academy of Music — comes to a head, with Bertha (Carrie Coon) emerging victorious at last, gazing out over the star-studded premiere she facilitated. In order to re-create the opening of the Met and capture Bertha’s triumph, cinematographer Manuel Billeter used visual effects and on-location shooting at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. “This opera house, as we see it, doesn’t really exist,” explains Billeter. The front of the house, with the columns, was captured in Philly: “Bob Shaw, our production designer, felt it had the scope and the majesty to really convey this enterprise,” he elaborates. But the Academy of Music does not have boxes, key to…