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Yvonne Orji is best known for playing Molly Carter on the series Insecure. Her performance was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2020. Yvonne is also a stand-up comic and has a new HBO special titled: Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me. The special is a follow up to her 2020 comedy special: Momma, I Made It! Orji is from Nigeria and while she was a grad student, she entered a beauty pageant and performed stand-up for the talent portion of the event. You can watch Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me on HBO or streaming on HBO Max. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elijah Allan-Blitz is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, musician and actor. He also creates AR and VR experiences like his Emmy Award-nominated virtual reality experience Take Every Wave: Laird in VR. Other VR experiences from Allan-Blitz include one for Michael Pollan's book How To Change Your Mind and another that was a companion piece for the Ken Burns documentary, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War. His latest project is the Disney Plus short film and AR experience Remembering, which stars Brie Larson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sohn is a filmmaker, animator, story artist and voice over. He's worked on Pixar films like Luca, The Incredibles, Wall-E, Up dating back to Finding Nemo. Sohn directed the film The Good Dinosaur and is directing the upcoming film Elemental. During his time at Pixar, Sohn has not only gotten to work creating films, but he's become a popular favorite for voicing characters. He played Emile in Ratatouille and Squishy in Monsters University. Most recently Sohn gave a scene stealing performance as Sox the robot comfort cat in the film Lightyear. Lightyear is now available in 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD as well as for streaming on Disney Plus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick Read Johnson is an accomplished writer and filmmaker who has directed movies like Spaced Invaders, Angus, Baby's Day Out, The Genesis Code and co-wrote the story for the film DragonHeart. His latest project is the film 5-25-77. It's a semi-autobiographical film about a teenager named Patrick from Illinois who wants to be a filmmaker. Three months before Star Wars: A New Hope opened in 1977, he gets to see a working print at Lucasfilm effects house Industrial Light and Magic. Technically, he's the world's first Star Wars fan. Johnson's semi-autobiographical film 5-25-77 is a loving homage to Star Wars and other '70s sci-fi films. But it's also a fantastic coming of age film that artfully showcases how finding out who you are might be as easy as following your dreams. The film was shot in 2004, but through various financial setbacks is finally being released this week. In fact, what you'll learn quickly from my conversation with Patrick is that it's hard to separate the man from his film and that the making of 5-25-77 is as much an adventure as what's on screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jaren Lewison is best known from his role as Ben Gross on the hit Netflix series Never Have I Ever. The show was created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. It's a coming of age comedy and drama that follows an Indian-American teen that wants to spruce up her social status. But her friends, family and feelings won't make it easy on her. You can watch all three seasons of Never Have I Ever on Netflix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Ann Emery has enjoyed roles in movies including ‘Hitch' and TV shows like ‘Breaking Bad.” For Apple TV's limited series about the tragic events at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina, Emery plays a committed health care provider trying to do right by her stranded patients when everything else goes horribly wrong. Based on true events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Jackson Harper is an actor and playwright. You know him best for his Emmy nominated performance as Chidi on the show The Good Place as well as for his performances in series like The Underground Railroad, Jack Ryan and the film Midsommar. William's latest project is the new Peacock original series The Resort which is a coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery. You can watch The Resort on Peacock with new episodes dropping on Thursdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know Dominic Monaghan best from as Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Charles Pace in the series Lost as well as from films like X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. His latest project is the new series Moonhaven which takes place a 100 years into the future in a Utopian colony on a moon. Moonhaven airs exclusively on AMC Plus with new episodes dropping on Thursdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Merchant is an actor, comedian, writer and director who's behind such shows as The Office, Extras and Life's Too Short. He's won two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards and an Emmy. He also starred as Caliban in the film Logan. Merchant co-created, as well as wrote, directed episodes for the comedy/thriller series The Outlaws on Prime Video. He stars in the show as part of an ensemble that includes Christopher Walken. Season two of The Outlaws drops Aug. 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boyd Holbrook is an accomplished actor who's starred in films like Logan, Milk, Gone Girl and The Predator. He played DEA agent Steve Murphy in the Netflix series Narcos and will be in the upcoming series Sandman based on the Neil Gaiman comic book. His latest project is the new film Vengeance written and directed by B. J. Novak (The Office). Vengeance is out in theaters now and The Sandman drops on Netflix August 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Cameron Monaghan grew up before our eyes on Showtime's Shameless, which tried to humanize the plight of a poor American family on Chicago's South side. Now he stars in the crime thriller Paradise Highway as a young FBI agent trying to stop human trafficking of young girls in the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jared Stern is a writer, director and producer. He created the Netflix animated series Green Eggs and Ham, co-wrote The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie as well as wrote and directed the film Happy Anniversary. Jared's latest project is the animated film DC League of Super-Pets which he wrote, produced and directed. The film features the voice work of John Krasinski, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Kate McKinnon, Diego Luna, and Keanu Reeves. DC League of Super-Pets is in theaters starting July 29. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicco Annan is an actor, dancer and choreographer. He plays Uncle Clifford in the hit Starz series P-Valley. The show is written and created by Pulitzer Prize Winner Katori Hall and takes place in a fictional Mississippi strip club called the Pynk. The Hollywood Reporter named Nicco's portrayal as Uncle Clifford as one of the Best TV Performances of 2020. You can watch the first two seasons of P-Valley on Starz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phoebe Robinson a multi-talented stand-up comedian, New York Times best-selling writer, and actress. You also know her from the Two Dope Queens podcast and her solo podcast Sooo Many White Guys. Phoebe's latest project is the new Freeform show Everything's Trash based on her book Everything's Trash, But It's Okay. She not only stars in the show but co-wrote and co-produced it. New episodes of Everything's Trash air Wednesday nights starting July 13 on Freeform TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angela Sarafyan is probably best known for playing the host Clementine Pennyfeather on the HBO series Westworld. She has appeared in a number of shows including American Horror Story, Blue Bloods and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Angela has also starred in films like The Immigrant, A Beautiful Life and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.Sarafyan returns to Westworld for a fourth season which airs Sunday nights on HBO and HBO Max.This interview was recorded Aug. 4, 2021 after her comedy/horror film King Knight premiered at Canada's Fantasia Fest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Asher Perlman is a performer, a comic, a cartoonist for The New Yorker and an Emmy Award-nominated writer for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He is an alumnus of The Second City, and a performer with The Improvised Shakespeare Company. For more of his work visit Asher's website.  Drawing we discuss: Jukebox cartoon Chicago cartoon His first cartoon published in The New Yorker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack McBrayer is a comic and two-time Emmy Nominated actor who you know best as Kenneth the page from the series 30 Rock. He's been in numerous films and shows like Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Wreck-It Ralph, Phineas and Ferb and Wander Over Wonder. Jack's latest project is the Apple TV Plus series Hello Jack! The Kindness Show. It's aimed at preschoolers and takes place in Clover Grove where Jack plays Jack, one of the town's most thoughtful and caring residents. He greets everyone with kindness and humor and his mission is to spread compassion and creativity and inspire others to do the same. You can watch Hello Jack! The Kindness Show on Apple TV Plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leslie Bibb is an accomplished film and television actor. You know her best from films like Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as well as from series like What if…?, ER, The League and, most recently, Jupiter's Legacy. Her latest role is as Satan in the new Netflix series God's Favorite Idiot. The show was created by Ben Falcone and stars him and his wife Melissa McCarthy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Goldblum doesn't need an introduction. But if you have never heard of him, just know that he's an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated actor, jazz musician, movie star and host of the National Geographic show The World According to Jeff Goldblum which streams on Disney Plus. This week, Goldblum returns to one of his most iconic roles, Dr. Ian Malcolm, in the film Jurassic World Dominion.This interview was recorded Nov. 10, 2021 ahead of the season two premiere of The World According to Jeff Goldblum. Read: CNET's story on Goldblum's Disney Plus series The World According to Jeff Goldblum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marianna Burelli is an accomplished Latin American actor who is making her US debut in the new Disney Plus series Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion. The comedy follows an everyday Mexican American teenager who is chosen by a magical luchador mask that transforms her into Ultra Violet, a superhero fighting crime. She eventually teams up with the Black Scorpion. Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion premieres June 3 on the Disney Channel and Disney Plus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam Jay is a stand-up comic and Emmy-nominated writer. You might know her best from her 2020 Netflix special Three in the Morning or for her work as a writer on Saturday Night Live. She stars in the Peacock series Bust Down which she co-created. And Sam is the writer, co-creator and host of Pause with Sam Jay on HBO and HBO Max. The show follows her as she explores a variety of topics and divisive cultural issues through a series of chats with her friends as well as sketches and interviews. Pause with Sam Jay is one of the most original series in a long time. There isn't any other show like this on TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shaun Toub wasn't sure he wanted to star in an Israeli production when he was pitched the script for Tehran, a spy thriller about the machinations between Israel and his home country of Iran. But the character of Faraz Kamali, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer intent on catching an Israeli computer hacker and Mossad agent named Tamar, was too good to pass on. The fact we're never sure who the good guys and bad guys are has made the Apple TV Plus series a hit in both countries, he said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and daytime talk show host gets ready to host the 500th episode of the Tamron Hall Show on ABC, she shares her thoughts on the many powerful and productive conversations she says have made the show popular with viewers. The third season, now airing, has just been nominated for four daytime Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is back for a 13th season. Joel Hodgson, who created MST3K, and Emily Marsh join Jonah Ray and robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot to watch bad movies and make wisecracks. The venerable show first premiered in 1988 and has won a Peabody Award winning and been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards. You can watch new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 starting May 6 at the website mst3k.com or by accessing the Gizmoplex app on iOS, Android and on platforms like Apple TV, Roku and Amazon FireTV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Giovanni Ribisi is an Emmy Award-nominated actor who has been in numerous films like Avatar, Lost in Translation, Saving Private Ryan and Gone in 60 Seconds. He's also been in shows like Sneaky Pete, Friends, My Name Is Earl and On The Verge. His latest project is playing the real life mob boss Joe Colombo in the Paramount Plus series The Offer. The show takes place in the 70s and details the extreme efforts producer Al Ruddy went through to get the film "The Godfather" made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natasha Leggero is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian. She's been in shows like Another Period, Burning Love, Key and Peele, Broke and Modern Family. She has four stand up specials including Coke Money and The Honeymoon Stand-up Special which became the basis for her podcast the Endless Honeymoon which she hosts along with her husband and fellow comic Moshe Kasher. Her newest show is Rat in the Kitchen on TBS which she co-hosts alongside Chef Ludo Lefebvre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After nearly three decades working as a model and actor in movies and TV shows including The Jamie Foxx Show and NYPD Blue, Garcelle Beauvais signed up as the first Black cast member in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2020. She hopes the reality TV inspires women to see that life, and their career, doesn't end when you reach a certain age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Burns notes we're living in complicated times, punctuated by misinformation, racial inequities, the climate crisis and threats to our democracy. Which is why it's worth revisiting the story of Benjamin Franklin, the man who showed the world what it means to be an “American.” In his new PBS documentary, Burns also shows us why Franklin, over 250 years ago, did social media right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Dastmalchian is an actor who may know best from films like The Suicide Squad, Dune, Ant-Man, Blade Runner 2049, The Dark Knight as well as shows like MacGyver, Twin Peaks and The Flash. David is also a comic book writer and wrote the 2019 series Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter for Dark Horse Comics. In March, he released a second volume of four issues aptly titled Count Crowley Amateur Midnight Monster Hunter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bomani Jones is an Emmy Award-winning sports journalist who hosts the long-running ESPN radio show/podcast The Right Time with Bomani Jones. His latest project is the new HBO series Game Theory with Bomani Jones where each week he breaks down the world of sports through a mix of topical news, in-depth analysis, interviews with special guests and field pieces. The show airs Sunday nights on HBO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Hodgman is the host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, the co-creator with David Rees of Dicktown on FX/Hulu, the author of books like Vacationland and Medallion Status. He is best known for his time as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his portrayal of PC in Apple's iconic Mac and PC ad campaign. New episodes of Dicktown air on Thursday nights on FXX and all available episodes can also be streamed on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Cho is an award-winning playwright, producer and screenwriter who co-wrote Pixar's new film Turning Red. The movie follows Mei Lee, a confident, dorky eighth grader torn between being the perfect daughter to her mom and the chaos of adolescence. To complicate things more, whenever Mei gets too excited, she turns into a giant red panda! Turning Red debuts exclusively on Disney Plus on Friday March 11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fans of the popular TV series 7th Heaven may remember watching Barry Watson grow up as oldest son Matt Camden. In a new action series on The CW, Watson gets to play the adoptive dad to a superpowered teenage girl who finds out she's not from Earth. The twist: Watson is also a military man who's been assigned to help the US investigate extraterrestrial threats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harold Perrineau is a prolific actor. He's been in shows like Oz, Lost and Sons of Anarchy as well as films like Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Smoke, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luherman, the Best Man and Zero Dark Thirty. His latest project is the Epix series From where he plays a sheriff of a mysterious small town that traps all those who enter. The unwilling residents search for a way out while trying to survive the terrifying creatures that come out at night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Michelle Bathé has had an amazing career playing strong women in TV shows including “First Wives Club,” “This is Us” and Amazon Prime Video's film, Sylvie's Love. Up next is NBC's The Endgame, in which she stars as Val Turner, a very ethical FBI agent with a complicated backstory. Her job: to get inside the head of a brilliant international arms dealer, played by the smooth talking Morena Baccarin. The high-stakes thriller airs Feb. 21 on NBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award-winning chefs Kristen Kish, Jeremy Ford and Justin Sutherland, who you might know best from shows like Top Chef and Iron Chef, are back for a second season of Fast Foodies on TruTV. In every episode, the chefs recreate a celebrity's favorite fast food item and then make their own "remix" version of it. This season, the celebrity guests include: Joel McHale, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Reggie Watts, Nikki Glaser, Adam Pally, Natasha Leggero and Jillian Bell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director and screenwriter Roland Emmerich earned the nickname ‘master of disaster' for bringing us notable sci-fi epics including Stargate and Independence Day. But he says his focus is really on ordinary people asked to do extraordinary things. In his newest movie, Moonfall, two Nasa astronauts and a conspiracy theorist have to save humanity after something knocks the moon out of orbit. Yep, that's pretty extraordinary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrien Brody is an accomplished actor. He's been in films like The Thin Red Line, Midnight in Paris, The Darjeeling Limited, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch. He's also been in shows like Chapelwaite and Succession. Notably, at 29, Brody won an Oscar for his performance in the film The Pianist. His latest film is Clean which he co-wrote, produced and composed the music for. He plays a tormented garbage man called Clean who tries to live a quiet life of redemption. When Clean becomes the target of a local crime boss, he must reconcile tensions using the violence of his past. The film debuts on Jan. 28 in theaters and on demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George MacKay has been in such films as Defiance and Captain Fantastic. He played Will Schofield in the Academy Award-winning film, 1917. Starting Jan. 21, George can be seen in the new Netflix film Munich - The Edge of War. The film is a thriller that takes place in the years leading up to World War II and features Jeremy Irons as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. George plays the Prime Minister's secretary and finds himself at odds with a former friend who works for the German government. Both friends become reluctant spies trying to expose a Nazi secret. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chukwudi Iwuji is a Nigerian-British actor who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and won two Olivier Awards. He's been in such shows and series as When They See Us, Designated Survivor, The Underground Railroad and appeared in films like John Wick: Chapter 2. Starting Jan. 13, he can be seen in the new HBO Max series Peacemaker which stars John Cena reprising his role from the 2021 film The Suicide Squad. The series was created by James Gunn who also cast Chukwudi in his upcoming Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Joseph Gordon-Levitt launched Hit Record a decade ago, the goal was to give people a place to come together and collaborate online on creative projects – everything from poems, to songs to TV shows. Fast forward to 2021 and Hit Record has found a new way to bring people together online with Class Projects, a subscription-based service where you learn by doing and getting feedback from creative professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prentice Penny is the Executive Producer and showrunner for the HBO series Insecure. He wrote and directed the Netflix film Uncorked. He has worked as a writer and producer on series like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Hustle, and Scrubs. The series finale of Insecure airs on HBO and streams on HBO Max on Dec. 26. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Bullion is perhaps best known for playing Billy Kitchen in the series Peaky Blinders. He's also been in such shows and films as The Bastard Executioner and Dune. Bullion can be seen in season two of The Witcher on Netflix. He plays the role of Lambert opposite Henry Cavill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam McKay is the Academy Award-winning writer and director behind such films as The Big Short, Anchorman, Vice and Step Brothers. Dr. Amy Mainzer is an astronomer, professor and the principal investigator of NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE). Adam's new film is Don't Look Up which Amy was the science advisor on. The film follows two astronomers, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, who discover a comet that will destroy the Earth. The cast includes Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Rob Morgan, Cate Blanchet, Tyler Perry, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, among others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Netflix's first gay holiday romantic comedy, Philemon Chambers says the true star is the way this LGBTQ+ story puts the focus on people just trying to find love and connecting with family. And as a gay Black actor, Chambers is glad to see the entertainment industry and services like Netflix embrace more stories and offer them to a mainstream audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Dae Kim is best known for his roles as Jin-Soo Kwon in Lost, Gavin Park in Angel and Chin Ho Kelly in Hawaii Five-0. He's been in a number of films and series including Raya and the Last Dragon, Hellboy, Avatar: The Last Airbender, 24 and The Good Doctor. He currently stars in the National Geographic show: The Hot Zone: Anthrax which follows the 2001 anthrax scare that took place just after 9/11 attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices