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Interview: Laurie Metcalf Talks Her ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ and ‘Big Mistakes’ Performances
Laurie Metcalf can be seen giving outstanding back-to-back performances in Monster: The Ed Gein Story and Big Mistakes. The third season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology series premiered in October of 2025 with the actress portraying Augusta Gein. Ed Gein’s legacy inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Silence of the Lambs, and […] More
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Interview: Owen Harris Dives Deep Into Directing Episodes From ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’
Returning to Westeros is no easy task. Nevertheless, HBO will continue to remind audiences why they fell in love with Game of Thrones in the first place through the recent blockbusters projects based on the work of George R.R. Martin. Owen Harris is a very talented director. The filmmaker helped to build the relationship between […] More
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Interview: Janelle James on Showing Different Layers of Her Talent on ‘Abbott Elementary’
For the past five seasons on Abbott Elementary, Janelle James has been stealing scenes and making a household name for herself as Principal Ava Coleman. Initially unqualified and unprofessional, Ava has emerged as a fierce advocate for her school with a heart of gold beneath the pointed insults . As Ava evolves, so does James […] More
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TV Topics: Karolina Wydra Reveals What’s Really Behind Zosia and Her Dream of Playing Walter White
Being pleasant is not always easy. This is especially true when playing a character who exists inside a collective hive mind and could easily come across as robotic, detached, or entirely stripped of humanity. Yet on Apple TV+’s Pluribus, Karolina Wydra does the opposite – and she does it exceptionally. As she attempts to allure […] More
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Interview: Sean Evans Reveals His Dream ‘Hot Ones’ Guest and Provides a Keke Palmer Update
There are few corners of the internet quite like Hot Ones. Since 2015, the First We Feast series has built a devoted following around a simple and slightly sadistic premise: Sean Evans sits across from some of the most famous people in the world, asks them genuinely good questions, and watches as increasingly devastating hot […] More
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Interview: Lamorne Morris Discusses Playing Robbie Robertson in ‘Spider-Noir’
Before joining Spider-Noir and portraying Robbie Robertson, actor Lamorne Morris had some preconceptions of who Nicolas Cage was as an actor, as he explains to Awards Radar on Zoom, but didn’t expect the Academy Award-winning performer to be so welcoming as the two worked together to build the friendship between detective Ben Reilly and Robbie: […] More
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Interview: Haley Lu Richardson Discusses ‘PONIES’ and Personally Connecting with Her Character
Haley Lu Richardson gives a standout performance as Twila in Peacock’s PONIES, which is set in 1977 Moscow and explores how two “persons of no interest” become CIA operatives. The heart of the series is the friendship between Twila and Bea (Emilia Clarke) as they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and figure out […] More
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Interview: Samba Schutte Plays the “Ultimate Diplomat” on ‘Pluribus’
In just a handful of episodes, Samba Schutte made waves on AppleTV’s hit series Pluribus. He plays Mr. Diabaté, a Mauritanian man who is one of the thirteen people immune to the virus that caused the Joining. Unlike our heroine Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), Mr. Diabaté relishes in the cultural shift and lives the life […] More
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Interview: Discussing the Music of Spider-Noir with Composers Kris Bowers and Michael Dean Parsons
Awards Radar speaks to composers Kris Bowers and Michael Dean Parsons about their work on Prime Video’s Spider-Noir.
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Awards Radar Podcast #294: Joey Prepares Myles for ‘Disclosure Day’ and Discusses Spoof Movies
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More















