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You won’t have to get too far into this new installment of Collider Ladies Night to learn that Sarah Paulson is one of my absolute favorite individuals in the industry. I’m a diehard American Horror Story fan and marvel at her on-screen work across the board, but over the years, I’ve also come to deeply appreciate how her passion, honesty and attention to detail shines through in all of our interviews.At this point, Paulson has six Emmy nominations to her name and one win for her performance as Marcia Clark in American Crime Story, she’s directed an episode of American Horror Story, is an executive producer on Ratched, just got a long overdue lead role in a studio feature with Run, and shows absolutely no signs of slowing down whatsoever. But, of course, it all had to being somewhere and during our Ladies Night conversation, Paulson credited Law & Order’s Ed Sherin with giving her career the jumpstart it needed.Hear all about that and so much more in this episode of Collider Ladies Night! Learn more about

From the early audition that proved to Kate Mara's mother that she had what it takes to become an actor to scoring a role in Brokeback Mountain, working with Ridley Scott on The Martian and then some, we’re covering as much of it as possible on Collider Ladies Night in honor of Mara’s latest release, A Teacher.Mara leads the FX series as Claire Wilson, a teacher starting a new job at a high school in Texas. While her home life with her husband Matt (Ashley Zukerman) isn’t perfect and Claire struggles with strained relationship with her family, this new gig is off to a promising start and offers hope. However, when Claire begins tutoring one of the students (Nick Robinson) on the side, lines are crossed with Claire leaving irreparable damage in her wake.Not only does the show mark some of Mara’s best work yet, but it’s also her first time serving as an executive producer on a series. Whether it’s gaining experience as a producer or using her knowhow and voice to advocate for stellar talent, like suggesting Gab

Breaking Bad alone shows off Betsy Brandt’s significant range. Marie Schrader added loads of much needed comic relief, but also afforded Brandt the opportunity to excel during some of the show’s darker beats, even making the most of a single reaction shot in the Emmy winning episode, “Ozymandias.” Want even more proof that Brandt can do just about anything? Give her filmography a quick glance beyond Breaking Bad. That line-up includes sitcoms like Life in Pieces and The Michael J. Fox Show, a powerhouse dramatic turn in Claire in Motion, and even film appearances where she contributes by making a single scene unforgettable like in Magic Mike. Hope you're ready for even more proof of Brandt’s range because her Soulmates character experiences quite the arc in the final episode of the season, “The (Power) Ballad of Caitlin Jones.”Brandt leads as the title character, Caitlin, a woman trapped in a loveless relationship with a guy who walks all over her. In an effort to find “the one,” Caitlin turns to the show’s f

Marsha Stephanie Blake has accomplished quite a bit over the years. She’s got a significant number of stage productions to her name, she’s worked with an incredible line-up of directors including Ava DuVernay and Steven Soderbergh, and she also scored an Emmy nomination for her performance in Now They See Us. Even with all of those accomplishments and all of that experience under her belt, was she prepared to shoot an episode of television all on her own? Somewhat!Social Distance is a new Netflix anthology series shot entirely in lockdown. Each episode features a different group of characters and shows how the COVID-19 pandemic rattled their day-to-day. In Blake’s episode, “And we could all together/Go out on the ocean,” Danielle Brooks plays Imani, a caregiver who continues to look after her client during the pandemic while also trying to care for her young daughter back at home. Meanwhile, her client’s daughter, Marion (Blake), is busy trying to juggle calls from Imani and adjust to teaching her college cou

When you look at what Victoria Pedretti managed to accomplish in just three years, hopes for what she’ll achieve in the years to come are through the roof. Pedretti burst onto the scene in a big way with the release of The Haunting of Hill House back in 2018. After that, she joined another red hot Netflix series, playing Love on Season 2 of You. On top of that, she starred opposite Dylan O’Brien in an episode of Amazing Stories and now she’s back on Netflix with yet another stellar show, the sequel season to Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor.This time around, Pedretti plays Dani Clayton, a young woman who leaves home to spend some time in the UK where she’s hired to be the au pair for two young children who recently lost their parents. Those kids live on the Bly estate, a place with quite the history and the potential to change the lives of everyone on the property.With The Haunting of Bly Manor now available on Netflix, Pedretti joined us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night to discuss her journey to

If you’re not familiar with T’Nia Miller just yet, you're in luck! Not only is she phenomenal in The Haunting of Bly Manor which just dropped on Netflix, but she’s also got loads of other must-see titles on her resume including Sex Education, Years and Years, and more. Hear all about those titles, Miller's experience in drama school, what it was like landing a role on Bly Manor, and a few spoiler details in this edition of Collider Ladies Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Katherine Langford has already accomplished quite a bit since 13 Reasons Why arrived on Netflix in 2017, making her a household name and earning her a Golden Globe nomination. She starred in one of my personal favorites of 2018, Love, Simon, Rian Johnson’s smash hit, Knives Out, and also just headlined the new Netflix series Cursed. Now she adds yet another wildly impressive title to her resume with the release of Spontaneous.The movie marks Brian Duffield’s feature directorial debut and stars Langford as Mara, a high school senior who manages to find love right when her classmates start exploding. Is the condition contained to a few students? Is it contagious? Will it affect the entire senior class? No one knows, forcing them to live as though every day could be their last.Hear all about Spontaneous as well as Langford's experience working on Knives Out, Cursed and more in this edition of Collider Ladies Night!Spontaneous arrived on VOD on October 6. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho

Geraldine Viswanathan broke out big time with Blockers in 2018 and even though that was her very first major Hollywood production, her talent was already undeniable. Cut to 2020 and the release of her newest feature, The Broken Hearts Gallery. Again, it was already abundantly clear that Viswanathan was mighty talented, but Broken Hearts Gallery shows off next-level comedic sensibilities, confidence and the commanding screen presence necessary to lead a feature. Viswanathan set the bar pretty high right out the gate with Blockers, but watching her hone those skills as she moves from project to project solidifies her boundless potential.Check out this edition of Collider Ladies Night to hear all about her earliest inspirations, booking Blockers, working with Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney on Bad Education, jumping into her first drama for Hala, her run on the TBS series Miracle Workers, and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-ou

If you’re looking for a mood booster right now, we’ve got “sunshine personified” right here for you - Gabourey Sidibe. While chatting with Antebellum directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz on The Witching Hour, they noted that Sidibe has a beauty, soul and spirit that radiates out to everyone around her. It’s something you can feel in much of her work, on her Instagram page, and now, having had the pleasure of chatting with Sidibe for 40 minutes about her journey in Hollywood, I'm lucky enough to say I felt it firsthand.Check out this edition of Collider Ladies Night with Sidibe to hear all about her experience making Precious, what happened after she was nominated for an Academy Award, her journey working on American Horror Story, what it was like seeing Janelle Monae command the set of Antebellum, and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There’s a college professor out there who deserves a very big thank you because that professor was instrumental to Carrie Coon’s journey to Hollywood. Coon has already given us loads to celebrate including a Tony Award nominated performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, phenomenal films like Gone Girl and The Post, and also some standout TV series, one of the most unforgettable of the bunch being The Leftovers. But, back in college, Coon wasn’t set on pursuing a career in acting. In fact, her career path could have taken her in eight other directions.If you'd like to hear more about that, Coon’s transition from stage to screen, what it was like making her feature debut in a David Fincher movie, what to expect from the upcoming Julian Fellow’s series, The Gilded Age, and so much more, check out this edition of Collider Ladies Night!Coon's latest movie, The Nest, hits select theaters on September 18th and arrives on VOD on November 17th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See a

Erin Moriarty has quite a bit to celebrate right now with the big debut of The Boys Season 2. Not only does the bold and wildly entertaining show deliver big in round two overall, but Moriarty gets the opportunity to stand out even more as Annie figures out how she’s going to handle what’s really going down at Vought.On this edition of Collider Ladies Night, Moriarty talks about watching movies with her dad as a kid, getting her start in musical theater, making The Kings of Summer, powering through some work lulls, two key Starlight scenes from the first three episodes of the new season, and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rachael Leigh Cook was one of my absolute favorites growing up. The Baby-Sitters Club, All I Wanna Do and She’s All That were basically on repeat in my house. As thrilled as I was to get to revisit memories from those productions during this edition of Collider Ladies Nights, one of the greatest joys of this conversation with Cook for her new Netflix release, Love, Guaranteed, was hearing about what Cook learned from all of those experiences and how it all landed her in a place where she has a degree of control over the content she’s making.Check out this edition of Collider Ladies Night to hear all about how Cook's collaboration with Crown Media and The Hallmark Channel wound up being a game changer, what it was like working on the “This Is Your Brain on Drugs” PSAs, a key conversation she had with The Baby-Sitters Club director Melanie Mayron, how her audition for Can’t Hardly Wait paved the way to Josie and the Pussycats, and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See

Mary Mouser has built up quite the resume over the years, but there’s no denying that Cobra Kai is a special one. Not only is the show a phenomenal continuation of the classic Karate Kid film, but it’s also a series that’s amassed quite the fanbase over the course of its two-season run on YouTube. The Cobra Kai fandom is a mighty passionate group and I’ve got a very good feeling that fandom is going to get even bigger courtesy of the shift to Netflix. Mouser steps in as Samantha LaRusso, Daniel La Russo’s (Ralph Macchio) daughter. Dad did teach her a thing or two about karate when Samantha was young, but as a teenager, she got a bit distracted by the high school social scene. However, when Sam falls for Johnny Lawrence’s (William Zabka) star student at the revived Cobra Kai, she finds herself being drawn back into the world of competitive karate.With Cobra Kai Seasons 1 and 2 hitting Netflix on August 28th, Mouser took the time to join us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night to talk about her journey from

It’s time to get to know The Stranger director, Veena Sud! While on an episode of Collider Ladies Night, Sud went into detail on crafting a story for the Quibi platform, using the Turnstyle technology and developing an antagonist who’s an especially smart and troubled psychopath with Dane DeHaan. In the series, DeHaan plays Carl E., a guy who becomes obsessed with playing god in a sense by using algorithms to predict behavior. The target of Carl E.’s latest experiment? Maika Monroe’s Clare, an aspiring writer who’s new to Los Angeles.Check out this edition of Collider Ladies Night to hear all about Sud's experience watching Hitchcock films at a very young age, what it was like working on The Real World, The Killing, Cold Case, The Stranger, and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s Lovecraft Country premiere day! I’m quite psyched for this especially powerful and bold show to get out into the world, but the show’s big debut is also the perfect reason to shine a light on the incredible Wunmi Mosaku. I had the pleasure of chatting with Mosaku in January at the Sundance Film Festival for her stellar upcoming feature release, His House, and if you couldn’t already tell from the title of that article, I’m a big fan and think it’s only a matter of until she becomes a household name.With that in mind, it’s probably no surprise that I was beyond thrilled to have Mosaku as a guest on Collider Ladies Night to learn more about her sources of inspiration and her journey to Lovecraft Country. We discussed a little of everything including her early passion for Annie, her experience studying at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, what it was like working with Zack Snyder on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and more before making our way to her new HBO show. Check it all out in this edition of Co

On this episode of Collider Ladies Night, Perri chats with Snowpiercer and The Rental star Shiela Vand about her experiences in Hollywood and creating her own material. Check out what she had to say about discovering that she absolutely had to be an actor, working with Robin Williams on Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, what it was like getting the Snowpiercer TV series off the ground, and so much more in this interview! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Emmy Raver-Lampman is excellent in Umbrella Academy Season 1, but just wait until you see how much she excels in Season 2. In all honesty, I was floored when I saw Allison’s storyline in Season 2 and how Raver-Lampman makes the absolute most of it. But, when I got the chance to speak to her for Collider Ladies Night and got a clearer sense of her journey from Marymount Manhattan College to Netflix star, her ability to shine more and more like that made so much sense.We’re talking about a talent who made her Broadway debut before graduating college, starred in a number of national tours, was part of the original ensemble of one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time, Hamilton, and then seamlessly made the transition to starring in a hit Netflix show. Raver-Lampman is oozing with talent and has proven time and time again, that she’s going to keep taking it to the next level from project to project - or, in the case of Umbrella Academy, from season to season.The second season of the show picks up right wh

I hope you’re ready for another tour de force performance from Yvonne Strahovski because that’s exactly what she delivers in Stateless which is now available to watch on Netflix. In this edition of Collider Ladies Night, Strahovski looks back on her journey to Hollywood, beginning with her penchant for spoofing commercials as a kid. After making the move to the US, Strahovski would go on to work on Chuck for its five-season run, see Dexter through to its controversial conclusion, and score Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her work in The Handmaid’s Tale, and then some. Now that list of accomplishments grows via Stateless.Hear all about that and more in this episode of Collider Ladies Night with Yvonne Strahovski! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Between her performance in Relic and everything she’s accomplished over the course of her career, it’s tough to imagine Emily Mortimer having been an extremely shy kid who feared being called on in class. Over the years, Mortimer has worked with some of the best of the best in the business like Martin Scorsese and Wes Craven, she wrote and starred in her own show with good friend Dolly Wells, and now she’s part of the powerhouse ensemble in the phenomenal IFC Midnight release, Relic.Hear all about her experience shedding her shyness, the career-changing pep talk she got from husband Alessandro Nivola, working on Scream 3 with Wes Craven, working with Martin Scorsese and so much more in this edition of Collider Ladies Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen to Collider.com editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub's 90 minute conversation with Derek Cianfrance, director of Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, and the HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True. Cianfrance explains in great detail the ups and downs of crafting the six-hour series, starring Mark Ruffalo as twin brothers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.