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Speaking about Wicked, Ariana Grande shared “Playing Glinda was the dream of my life, and I was so deeply grateful to do that work and that was more than enough. To be recognized in this way is something you don’t even think about so I’m deeply grateful.”
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Discussing her character Glinda on Wicked, Ariana Grande stated “It’s such a gift to be able to play a character with so much nuance, there’s plenty underneath the surface. That’s my favorite thing about her.”
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Talking about the sequel to Wicked, Ariana Grande said “I would say, it’s very special, very emotional. I think the second movie really embodies unconditional love and forgiveness and friendship and you’ll have to wait and see but it’s quite different. You’ll see people bear the repercussions of their choices.”
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Sharing his experience filming Sing Sing, Clarence Maclin stated “As you could imagine, on the onset, it was a lot of apprehension about going back to a place I clawed myself out of, to walk back into a prison and put on the uniform that so readily identified you as an outcast. The message is that people in prison are just that, they’re just people, and they have the ability to change. That message was more important than the apprehension I suffered to get that message out.”
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Fernanda Torres stated that “This is such a special year for women in cinema, great performances, a lot of them over 40, some of them over 50. This year there should be 10 nominations to be fair for all of us.”
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On working on I’m Still Here with her mother, Fernanda said “She was in the film already, I was not the first pick. For me, when he invited me, I thought he was going to invite me to write his script for him. Then, he said ‘Do you want to play Eunice?’ and I was like ‘Are you sure?’ I was so moved, and then I started to work hard, from the first reading because I didn’t want to lose the character.”
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Discussing September 5, John Magaro shared “It’s one of those lessons where you learn the oddest things can be captivating, the oddest things will be thrilling, and you don’t have to play this game, life can be captivating enough.”
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John Magaro stated “I’m a nerd, so I like going back in history. Part of the reason I do this, part of the reason I love film, is the chance to time travel. The idea that film can transport us back in time and show us a moment in history that changed everything is really intriguing to me.”
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Talking about working with Anora director Sean Baker, Mikey Madison said “When I met Sean for the first time, there was no script, we had a coffee and it was the first time a director gave a role without auditioning me. He saw a horror film I did opening weekend and from that he remembered me from a small part in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, so he called me a few days later and pitched it to me and said if you want to do it, I’ll write it for you.”
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Discussing Anora, Mikey Madison stated “The experience of making the film was so special and very transformative because of what it was like to make that movie. As a person, as an actor, I grew.”
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On playing Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown, Monica Barbaro explained “Everyone talks about her vibrato and the key that she sings her songs in, and at that time in performance style, she was quite still and people would talk about her seeming deeply troubled and affected from the songs she was singing…If i could get close to those things, I could portray her as someone recognizable to people.”
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Sharing her experience collaborating with Timothée Chalamet on A Complete Unknown, Monica Barbaro said “We approached this as close as possible to that. We met like a week before filming, and one of those meetings was a music rehearsal. I admired his work, he’s already having a career retrospective, and he’s not even thirty. It was nice to have tangible work to present at the beginning of this and so we kind of kept our relationship similar to theirs in that they were silo performers when they met.”
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On preparing for his role in The Apprentice, Sebastian Stan stated “There was obviously so much footage and it was really helpful. Part of it was like learning a new instrument, you practice until you can do it. I worked with a dialect coach and everything had a purpose, the lips weren’t there for no reason. He doesn’t really breathe, you look at his posture and wonder why it’s that way.”
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Discussing his work on The Apprentice, Sebastian Stan shared “We just didn’t know what was going to happen, and that to me, as an actor, is what you dream of. You spend months preparing for lightning to strike, and you go there and want to be surprised. Jeremy and I never spoke, hung out, we met and sort of realized we were going to trust each other. I only saw him on set and there was a tension that I think helped us.”
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Discussing her film Emilia Pérez, Selena Gomez stated “Some of the magic has disappeared, but I continue to be proud of what i’m doing, and I’m just grateful, no regrets, I’d do this movie over and over again if i could.”
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Talking about her career, Selena Gomez said “I think I’m ready to just focus on this for a while, film and art making and being around talented people who uplift me along the way. I think it’ll be hard for me to go back to music after this.”
