Next Big Thing: How Heather McMahan’s Comedy of Catharsis Is Taking Her Career to the Next Level
Moving into her mom’s basement was the best thing that’s ever happened to Heather McMahan. The comedian, who can be described as an auditory David Sedaris for the millennial set — she hosts the Absolutely Not podcast, where she works out emotional kinks on topics like friend breakups and traumatic celery juice regimens — recently […]
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We Read ‘Spare’ So You Don’t Have To
By the time Spare hit shelves on Jan. 10, Prince Harry’s name had been in the headlines nearly every (or is it actually every day?) for over a month. It started with the Dec. 8 release of the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, aimed at unveiling a new, more personal side of Harry and wife […]
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Lucy Boynton on Her Dark, Juicy New Roles: “Will Anything Ever Live Up to This Again?”
In a booth at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, COVID is on the table. As an interviewer, the topic can feel simultaneously intrusive and reductive to bring up, whether it’s the current state of the pandemic or those dark months of 2020, but it’s a subject that can’t be avoided, especially as actors are […]
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The Best Books of 2022
After several lavish years, in which the bounty of big-name books became almost impossible to keep up with, publishing is finally catching up with itself. 2022 was arguably slower, and quieter, than its recent predecessors — there was no Sally Rooney to adorn tote bags all over Brooklyn, no Jonathan Franzen dominating the discourse. Instead of […]
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Jessica Henwick on Her Career Milestone No One Knows About
In Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson’s sequel that follows self-titled “disrupters” as they convene on the private island of their tech billionaire leader, internet drama is the name of the game (well, in addition to murder). Jessica Henwick’s character, Peg, is the long-suffering assistant to Kate Hudson’s Birdie Jay, a fashion-industry stalwart […]
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What to Read Right Now: Timely Books With Hollywood Appeal
Each week, The Hollywood Reporter will offer up the best new (and newly relevant) books that everyone will be talking about — whether it’s a tome that’s ripe for adaptation, a new Hollywood-centric tell-all or the source material for a hot new TV show. Rights Available Small Game by Blair Braverman (WME) The author, who appeared on Naked and […]
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“All I Want Is to Watch People Heal”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With ‘Causeway’ Star Brian Tyree Henry
There’s a lot of Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway. The film, which also stars Jennifer Lawrence and is the first title under her Excellent Cadaver production company, has been a passion project for everyone involved — including its actors. After the pandemic halted filming on the New Orleans set, Henry and Lawrence found themselves quarantining mere […]
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The Making of ‘She Said’: “We All Felt We Didn’t Want to Give Harvey Any More Airtime”
There’s a photo of the moment right before The New York Times published its very first story about Harvey Weinstein’s systemic sexual harassment. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor are there, along with their editors at the newspaper. They’re gathered around a computer, giving the story one last read and waiting to press the button that […]
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Jesse Eisenberg on the Gendered Double Standards That ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ Exposes
Jesse Eisenberg is a bit embarrassed to be here. It’s not because of the quality of the project he’s promoting — new miniseries Fleishman Is in Trouble is based on the 2019 novel (of the same name) that was a New York Times best-seller, longlisted for the National Book Award, and landed on every major best of the year list; the […]
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Why Brandon Perea Made Jordan Peele Cry During His ‘Nope’ Auditions
On Nov. 13, Brandon Perea will receive the rising star award for film at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Latino Cinema & Television — but, thanks to his recent starring role as Angel Torres in the UFO horror flick Nope, he already feels like he’s won the lottery. Here, Perea talks to THR about […]
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What to Read Right Now: Timely Books With Hollywood Appeal
Each week, The Hollywood Reporter will offer up the best new (and newly relevant) books that everyone will be talking about — whether it’s a tome that’s ripe for adaptation, a new Hollywood-centric tell-all or the source material for a hot new TV show. Rights Available Parachute Women by Elizabeth Winder (LoTurco Literary) Everyone knows The Rolling Stones, but […]
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Melissa Roxburgh on ‘Manifest’s Cancellation and Resurrection: “This Can’t Be the Way We End This”
After season three of Manifest wrapped filming, Melissa Roxburgh was in career limbo. The missing-plane drama, which aired on NBC at the time, had yet to be renewed for a fourth season — but, it hadn’t been canceled either. It was the height of the pandemic, a period when everyone had a lot more time […]
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