More from Rebecca Keegan
CAA, Sean Penn’s CORE and LAUSD Launch Fund to Aid Wildfire Recovery
The SoCal Fire Fund, which will be administered by the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), will support recovery initiatives that aid students, school employees and families impacted by the January 2025 fires.
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L.A. Wildfires: How to Help
Entertainment industry groups including the Screen Actors Guild and the Entertainment Industry Foundation have launched wildfire relief efforts in Southern California geared toward helping first responders and members of the entertainment industry community.
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“If You Show Any Doubt, They’ll Eat You Alive”: Ridley Scott, Denis Villeneuve and the Director Roundtable
Six Oscar-contending directors come clean about the question of self-confidence, unnecessary multiple takes and what it’s really like to work with Denzel Washington.
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‘The Brutalist’ Director’s “Final Cut Tiebreak” Golden Globes Speech Explained
The backstory of Brady Corbet's remarks about creative freedom during his acceptance speech for best dramatic film: "You give me that number, but don't tell me how to spend it."
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“Who Am I When I’m Not Working?”: Angelina Jolie, Demi Moore, Zendaya and the Actress Roundtable
Zoe Saldaña, Tilda Swinton and Mikey Madison also discuss baring it all onscreen, how they’ve never met each other (“It’s quite strange”), and bonding over Moore’s ‘Ghost’ past.
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How Michelle Obama’s ‘Later Daters’ Reinvented a Reality Staple: “We’re Telling Everyone’s Story”
The "funny, racy and edgy" unscripted Netflix dating series from Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions reflects the couple's strategy to make content for broad audiences
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In ‘The Brutalist,’ Size Matters
Brady Corbet and Adrien Brody on the maximalist effort behind their story of a minimalist architect: "To try to make something perfect usually requires pushing people to their very limits."
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Nicole Kidman Exposed
The inexhaustible actress — fronting six major projects this year — opens up about her startlingly hypersexual role in 'Babygirl': "This is a place that I haven’t been."
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Resurrecting ‘Rust’: How Alec Baldwin’s Ill-Fated Flick Got Finished
Three years after the movie was struck by tragedy, its director and new cinematographer explain how they battled through trauma, moral objection and their own mixed emotions to finally complete the indie Western.
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Just One of 2023’s Top Films Portrayed an Abortion
Hollywood's highest-grossing films are virtually silent on abortion and many other reproductive health issues, according to new research: "The film industry has squandered its opportunities," says USC's Stacy L. Smith.
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Can Watching Movies Rewire Your Brain?
Revealing new Stanford research finds that when people lose themselves in a story, they become more empathetic. Here’s how it works.
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At the First Ever San Quentin Film Festival, One Filmmaker Wins a Prize — and Parole
A24's 'Sing Sing' and Netflix's 'Daughters' screened alongside films from incarcerated directors at the event, where the red carpet took place in the courtyard below California's recently closed death row, baloney sandwiches were on the menu, and the audience was uniformed in blue.
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