Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter - Season 3

First aired: 6/25/2017 14 episodes

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Episodes

1. Comedy Actors

Aired: 6/25/2017

Anthony Anderson ('Black-ish'), Kevin Bacon ('I Love Dick'), Ted Danson ('The Good Place'), Brian Tyree Henry ('Atlanta'), William H. Macy ('Shameless') and Kumail Nanjiani ('Silicon Valley') talk about tackling unlikable characters, what it's like making comedy in the current political climate and their proudest moments from their shows.

2. Comedy Actresses

Aired: 7/2/2017

Pamela Adlon ('Better Things'), Minnie Driver ('Speechless'), America Ferrera ('Superstore'), Kathryn Hahn ('I Love Dick'), Issa Rae ('Insecure') and Emmy Rossum ('Shameless') talk about typecasting in Hollywood, male nudity vs. female nudity and their most embarrassing moments on set.

3. Drama Actors

Aired: 7/9/2017

Riz Ahmed ('The Night Of'), Sterling K. Brown ('This Is Us'), John Lithgow ('The Crown'), Ewan McGregor ('Fargo'), Billy Bob Thornton ('Goliath') and Jeffrey Wright ('Westworld') talk about what scenes they were nervous to approach and the process of letting a character go.

4. Drama Actresses

Aired: 7/16/2017

Nicole Kidman ('Big Little Lies'), Jessica Lange ('Feud: Bette and Joan'), Chrissy Metz ('This Is Us'), Elisabeth Moss ('The Handmaid's Tale'), Oprah Winfrey ('The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks') and Reese Witherspoon ('Big Little Lies') talk about how they prepare for intense scenes and gender equality in Hollywood.

5. Comedy Showrunners

Aired: 7/23/2017

2017 Comedy Showrunner Roundtable features the talented Gloria Calderon Kellett ('One Dat at a Time'), Scott Silveri ('Speechless'), Judd Apatow ('Girls', 'Crashing', 'Love'), Phoebe Waller-Bridge ('Fleabag'), David Mandel ('Veep') and Kenya Barris ('Black-ish')

6. Drama Showrunners

Aired: 7/30/2017

This season's 2017 Drama Showrunner Roundtable features Ava DuVernay ('Queen Sugar'), Ryan Murphy ('Feud: Bette and Joan'/'American Horror Story: Roanoke'), Noah Hawley ('Fargo'/'Legion'), Lisa Joy ('Westworld'), Jenji Kohan ('Orange is the New Black') and David E. Kelly ('Big Little Lies').

7. Reality Stars

Aired: 8/6/2017

This season's 2017 Reality Roundtable features Leah Remini ('Scientology and the Aftermath'), Kris Jenner ('Keeping Up With The Kardashians'), RuPaul ('RuPaul's Drag Race'), W. Kamau Bell ('United Shades of America'), and Sallyann Salsano ('Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party').

8. Directors

Aired: 1/21/2018

Six top filmmakers — also including Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049), Angelina Jolie (First They Killed My Father) and Joe Wright (Darkest Hour) — open up about choosing the right projects ("You don't want to end up in a bad marriage"), firing staff and what it feels like to direct a movie that bombs: "People think you move on, but you don't."

9. Actors

Aired: 1/28/2018

Tom Hanks (The Post), James Franco (The Disaster Artist), John Boyega (Detroit), Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) open up about their latest films.

10. Actresses

Aired: 2/4/2018

Six top actresses — Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game), Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes), and Jennifer Lawrence (mother!)— open up about risky roles and how the industry's culture of abuse might finally be on the verge of change

11. Producers

Aired: 2/11/2018

THR's Roundtable Series kicks off with superproducers including Jason Blum (Get Out), Eric Fellner (Darkest Hour, Baby Driver, Victoria & Abdul), Seth Rogen (The Disaster Artist) and Ridley Scott (All The Money in the World, Blade Runner 2049) debating tough decisions, surprise successes and sexual harassment in Hollywood.

12. Writers

Aired: 2/18/2018

Scribes behind six of the season's most unusual scripts — including Darren Aronofsky (mother!), Anthony McCarten (Darkest Hour), Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) and Fatih Akin (In The Fade) — reveal the struggles and satisfactions of bringing their words to the screen ("Rule number one: Don't bore an audience") and say nothing is off limits (even porn).

13. Cinematographers

Aired: 2/25/2018

The lensing experts behind 'Blade Runner 2049,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Mudbound,' 'The Post,' 'Roman J. Israel, Esq.,' 'The Shape of Water' and 'Suburbicon' open up about their craft and finding a balance with their directors.

14. Actors Live Roundtable

Aired: 3/4/2018

In THR's first ever live roundtable, Bryan Cranston (Last Flag Flying), Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name), Robert Pattinson (Good Time), Diane Kruger (In The Fade), Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) and Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) sat down before a studio audience for The Hollywood Reporter's inaugural movie star summit about their craft, the cons of social media and how one ended up with a severed human foot.