With Libby Hill and Ben Travers
SPRING 2021
A new Emmy Awards season staple, IndieWire is presenting our Awards Spotlight series beginning this month. The video series is presented by Disney+.
IndieWire TV Awards Editor Libby Hill and IndieWire Critic and TV Deputy Editor Ben Travers connected with some of this season’s most exciting talent — as compiled and edited by IndieWire Creative Producer Leo Garcia — to discuss their process and their art as reflected in the 2020-2021 television season.
From Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, who returned to HBO in “Mare of Easttown” a decade after her Emmy success in “Mildred Pierce,” to the eponymous Bodega Boys from “Desus & Mero”, John Boyega in “Small Axe,” Kathryn Hahn in “WandaVision,” Elizabeth Moss in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and Katori Hall for the cultivation and curation of her strip club, stone cold classic, “P-Valley,” and more as IndieWire unveils more than 15 exclusive interviews beginning June 1 through the end of the Emmy nomination voting period on June 28.
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What’s a few flies between chums, really?
Both are breakout stars in “The Underground Railroad,” but when the camera was off, the dynamic was familial.
“An audience needs to understand from the inside how hard this is so that they can respect it even more,” Hall said.
The star, co-creator, and executive producer spoke to IndieWire about getting recognized as Ted Lasso, what’s next in Season 2, and that pivotal scene about A.I.
“Desus & Mero” is coming into Emmy voting season hot off a Writers Guild Award for Comedy/Variety Talk Series.
The actress behind Agatha Harkness spoke to IndieWire about bonding with the cast, kids mocking her “witch moves,” and how much she misses live theater.
In Deborah Vance, Jean Smart found an amalgamation of a career’s worth of her favorite roles.
“I think the surprise has continually been that the more specific, shameful, secretive the story is, the more people will relate to it,” Konkle said.
Uzo Aduba stars as Dr. Brooke Taylor on “In Treatment,” a pandemic season that proved more healing than harrowing.
Superheroes are people, too, and that’s what Sebastian Stan loves about “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.”
The actor and executive producer also shared another full circle moment from the Apple TV+ drama and how he approaches scripts from Cary Fukunaga, Damon Lindelof, and David Lynch.
The duo discuss building a relationship — just to tear it apart in the latest season.
Elisabeth Moss loves directing, but she might love playing angry more than anything.
In Part Two of IndieWire’s interview with the Emmy contender, Winslet talks about how she built out Mare Sheehan’s tragic backstory.
As abolitionist John Brown, Hawke brought “the hippie point of view” to a man who was done being pushed around — and with it, introduced a new generation to an old hero.
In Part One of IndieWire’s interview with the Emmy contender, Winslet talks about how Mare Sheehan always played for keeps.
The center of Showtime’s brilliant doc series “Couples Therapy,” Dr. Orna Guralnik discusses therapy in a pandemic and where we go from here.
Boyega’s performance as Leroy Logan in the third installment of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology series, “Red, White and Blue,” makes him an Emmy contender.
