Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter - Season 2

Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter - Season 2

Season 2

Network
Episodes14
DatesJun 26, 2016 - Feb 26, 2017
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Episodes

Drama Actresses
Season 2Episode 160 min

Drama Actresses

Six of the year's most sought after drama actresses Sarah Paulson, Julianna Margulies, Kerry Washington, Constance Zimmer, Kirsten Dunst, Regina King, and Jennifer Lopez discuss the new landscape of TV, and what their first big splurge was.

Jun 26, 2016
Drama Actors
Season 2Episode 260 min

Drama Actors

Six of the television season's most eclectic drama actors - including Rami Malek, Bobby Cannavale, Wagner Moura, Cuba Gooding Jr., Forest Whitaker, and Paul Giamatti - reveal the challenges of letting emotionally demanding characters go.

Jul 3, 2016
Comedy Actresses
Season 2Episode 360 min

Comedy Actresses

TV's leading funny ladies - Rachel Bloom, Gina Rodriguez, Allison Janney, Niecy Nash, Lily Tomlin, Ilana Glazer - disclose the best advice they ever got, the moment they knew they wanted to become actors and their funniest fan interactions.

Jul 10, 2016
Comedy Actors
Season 2Episode 460 min

Comedy Actors

Comedy masters Jeffrey Tambor, Aziz Ansari, Anthony Anderson, Tony Hale, Jerrod Carmichael, Rob Lowe, Keegan-Michael Key divulge their most embarrassing moments, who inspires them and the challenges of taking a comedic look at serious topics.

Jul 17, 2016
Drama Showrunners
Season 2Episode 560 min

Drama Showrunners

Six of television's top drama series bosses - Sam Esmail, Julian Fellowes, Nina Jacobson, Marti Noxon, Melissa Rosenberg and John Ridley - open up about the stories that made them genuinely nervous in Hollywood and what it takes to cast their shows.

Jul 24, 2016
Comedy Showrunners
Season 2Episode 660 min

Comedy Showrunners

Comedy TV writer - producers Kenya Barris, Marta Kauffman, Aline Brosh McKenna, Alan Yang, Nahnatchka Khan and David Mandel talk condoms, stunt guests and what they have (and haven't) been able to get away with on the small screen.

Jul 31, 2016
Reality Showrunners
Season 2Episode 760 min

Reality Showrunners

TV's top reality talent - Mark Cuban, Jane Lynch, Guy Fieri, Nick Cannon, Mike Darnell and LL Cool J - discuss on-set psychologists, coaxing contestants and America's first reality star presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

Aug 7, 2016
Directors
Season 2Episode 860 min

Directors

The directors of this year's most acclaimed films, Damien Chazelle, Mel Gibson, Barry Jenkins, Mira Nair, Oliver Stone, Denzel Washington, talk about the filmmaking process.

Jan 15, 2017
Actors
Season 2Episode 960 min

Actors

Casey Affleck, Mahershala Ali, Jeff Bridges, Andrew Garfield, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dev Patel discuss how they go about researching roles, being typecast and what it's like working with celebrated directors.

Jan 22, 2017
Actresses
Season 2Episode 1060 min

Actresses

Amy Adams, Annette Bening, Naomie Harris, Taraji P. Henson, Isabelle Huppert, Natalie Portman and Emma Stone talk about what inspired them to go into acting, having stage fright and what it's like working with Hollywood's best directors.

Jan 29, 2017
Producers
Season 2Episode 1160 min

Producers

Darren Aronofsky, Todd Black, Matt Damon, Frank Marshall, Marc Platt, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff have a conversation about developing scripts, making decisions on the fly and what it takes to be a successful producer.

Feb 5, 2017
Writers
Season 2Episode 1260 min

Writers

Pedro Almodovar, Tom Ford, Noah Oppenheim, Kenneth Lonergan, Allison Schroeder, and Taylor Sheridan discuss what principles guide their writing, how to escape writer's block and ways that their writing draws from personal experience.

Feb 12, 2017
Documentary Filmmakers
Season 2Episode 1360 min

Documentary Filmmakers

Documentary filmmakers Ezra Edelman, Werner Herzog, Kirsten Johnson, Josh Kriegman, Raoul Peck, and Roger Ross Williams talk about how they got into filmmaking and what draws them to commit to a specific story.

Feb 19, 2017
Songwriters
Season 2Episode 1460 min

Songwriters

Songwriters Tori Amos, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Sting, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams reveal their process and how to emotionally connect songs to movies.

Feb 26, 2017

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