A Hollywood character unlike any other reflects on his accidental journey from MTV VJ to white rapper to best actor Oscar contender for his portrayal of a has-been porn star in Sean Baker’s latest indie about people on the fringes of American society. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Awards Chatter

Simon Rex - 'Red Rocket'

In a rare interview, the enigmatic Oscar winner reflects on growing up Coppola, following 'Leaving Las Vegas' by going full Bruckheimer, why he now works constantly and what it's like being "rediscovered" at 57. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicolas Cage - 'Pig'

The first Latina ever to win an Oscar and one of only 16 EGOTs ever reflects on the stereotypical casting and abusive behavior she encountered as a Hollywood starlet, working on classics like 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'West Side Story' and why she is convinced that the latter's upcoming remake — in which she appears and on which she was an EP — will avoid the pitfalls that undid another recent movie musical about Latinos in America, 'In the Heights.' Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rita Moreno - 'Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It'

The Mexican-born "king of Latino comedy" reflects on discovering his calling and becoming a huge star in his homeland at the age of 27, his humbling years-long pursuit of stardom north of the border and the ways in which his 2013 film 'Instructions Not Included' — the highest-grossing Spanish-language film of all time in United States — changed everything. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eugenio Derbez - 'CODA'

Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hayley Mills - Film Legend

One of the all-time great child stars reflects on anchoring six films for Walt Disney (including 'Pollyanna' and 'The Parent Trap'), breaking into grown-up roles and writing her new memoir 'Forever Young.' Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the wake of the unexpected loss of a great chatacter actor who played, among many other parts, the most memorable character on the greatest TV show of all time — Omar Little on ‘The Wire’ — we resurface a 2011 conversation he had with Scott Feinberg about his scar, his struggles and his salvation. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remembering Michael K. Williams (1966-2021)

In his last interview, the TV legend best known for playing Lou Grant on the landmark comedy series 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and drama series 'Lou Grant' — he won Emmys for both, as well as for 'Rich Man, Poor Man' and 'Roots' — reflects on his late-breaking success, his date with Mary Tyler Moore and life during the pandemic. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remembering Ed Asner (1929-2021)

A titan of ’50s and ’60s popular music — rivaled only by Elvis Presley, who once opened for him — reflects on reconciling his religious upbringing with mainstream stardom, his now-controversial covering of songs by Black artists and being one of the last people put under contract to a Hollywood studio before the studio system’s collapse. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pat Boone - Film & Music Legend

One of the most admired stage and screen actresses of her generation shares her conflicted feelings about her star-making run run on 'The X-Files,' why she subsequently left and then returned to Hollywood and what it means to her, after so many ups and downs, to now receive universal acclaim for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gillian Anderson - 'The Crown'

One of the most artistically and commercially successful producers in Hollywood history, a 2018 recipient of the Academy’s Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, reflects on breaking into the biz 53 years ago with Peter Bogdanovich, the chance encounter that resulted in his longtime collaboration with Steven Spielberg and marriage to Kathleen Kennedy and what inspired him to direct — for the first time in 14 years — a music doc that’s now up for six Emmys. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank Marshall - 'The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart'

The much loved actors' actor, now an Emmy frontrunner for Disney+'s first MCU series, reflects on learning to improvise with the Frat Pack, cornerning the market on sexually daring parts and landing the role she was meant to play... all along. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Hahn - 'WandaVision'

The first female VP at a major Hollywood studio (UA in the 1970s), who died on August 3 at 95, spoke with Scott Feinberg in 2013 about working on Madison Ave. in the 1960s, transitioning from being a top literary agent to a top production executive and lessons she learned while helping to make ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ ‘Rocky,’ ‘Carrie,’ ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘Coming Home,’ ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ‘The Big Chill’ and other classics. (Nasatir’s friend and former Bantam Books colleague Esther Margolis can briefly be heard during the conversation.) Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remembering Marcia Nasatir (1926-2021)

The powerhouse team of documentary filmmakers behind some of the most acclaimed and socially impactful docs of the 21st century reflect on their very different backgrounds, how they began collaborating and how sexual misconduct became the major theme of their work together. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering - 'Allen v. Farrow'

The Australian multi-hyphenate reflects on the filmmaking collective that he helped to establish 25 years ago, leveraging an early role in 'Star Wars' and the varied credits that have followed, from 'Warrior' to 'Loving' to, most recently, Barry Jenkins' acclaimed limited series adaptation of Colson Whitehead's bestselling novel. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joel Edgerton - 'The Underground Railroad'

'Awards Chatter' is a podcast that features in-depth interviews with the most interesting and accomplished people in show business. Created and hosted by: Scott Feinberg Produced by: Matthew Whitehurst and Joshua Farnham 'Awards Chatter' is hosted by www.Simplecast.com

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