The 38th Annual Imagen Awards took place on Sunday, Dec. 3 to celebrate Latino excellence and contributions to Hollywood. Taking place at the Biltmore Hotel in L.A., the talent that showed up to the event included Gina Rodriguez, Edward James Olmos, Michael Cimino, Enrique Arrizon, Julieta Egurrola, and many more.
This year’s ceremony comprised 136 nominations across 27 categories highlighting storytelling and performances by Latino talent. Among the nominees were programs and films such as Flamin’ Hot, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Acapulco and This Fool.
Contending for Best Feature Film were A Man Called Otto, Flamin’ Hot, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Ruido. Nominees for Best Actor in a Feature Film included Daniel Giménez Cacho for Bardo, Andy García for Father of the Bride, Jesse García for Flamin’ Hot and Tenoch Huerta Mejía for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In the Best Actress in a Feature Film category, the...
This year’s ceremony comprised 136 nominations across 27 categories highlighting storytelling and performances by Latino talent. Among the nominees were programs and films such as Flamin’ Hot, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Acapulco and This Fool.
Contending for Best Feature Film were A Man Called Otto, Flamin’ Hot, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Ruido. Nominees for Best Actor in a Feature Film included Daniel Giménez Cacho for Bardo, Andy García for Father of the Bride, Jesse García for Flamin’ Hot and Tenoch Huerta Mejía for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In the Best Actress in a Feature Film category, the...
- 12/4/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Eva Lasting (La Primera Vez) is a Colombian teen series created by Dago García starring Emmanuel Restrepo and Francisca Estévez Navas.
Eva Lasting is one of those series that finds its inspiration in great tv successes like “Those Marvelous Years” and similar ones that make memories of better times a great chance to re-live them, make us listen to songs of those times, good settings and sure-fire use of a terrain in which you either do very badly or you succeed and have an assured audience because, more than listening to this story they come to tell, what they are up to is re-living their own story.
About the Series
And, Eva Lasting series is not bad at all. It is also not a systematic repetition nor a “safe” interpretation of the Seventies: here they tell us a story and manage to create a series that is far removed from...
Eva Lasting is one of those series that finds its inspiration in great tv successes like “Those Marvelous Years” and similar ones that make memories of better times a great chance to re-live them, make us listen to songs of those times, good settings and sure-fire use of a terrain in which you either do very badly or you succeed and have an assured audience because, more than listening to this story they come to tell, what they are up to is re-living their own story.
About the Series
And, Eva Lasting series is not bad at all. It is also not a systematic repetition nor a “safe” interpretation of the Seventies: here they tell us a story and manage to create a series that is far removed from...
- 2/15/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
MacRo Television Studios has acquired the exclusive rights to The World Series of Spades from comedian Clint Coley and Transit Pictures.
The World Series of Spades was initially released in September 2020 on Amazon Prime and Facebook Watch. A celebration of the Black experience and triumph, the series amassed a large viewership from its 20-episode digital release. MacRo will team with Coley to develop a nationwide premium version of series that incorporates the best celebrity and non-celebrity Spades teams. In the new series centering on the card game, the top players will face off in the ultimate Spades tournament that leads up to a championship match with the winners receiving a grand cash prize.
Coley and Monica Boyd developed and produced the original series. MacRo Television Studios is the studio on the new iteration of the project. Aisha Corpas Wynn, Brennan Edwards and Coley are executive producers. Ahmadou Seck will also produce.
The World Series of Spades was initially released in September 2020 on Amazon Prime and Facebook Watch. A celebration of the Black experience and triumph, the series amassed a large viewership from its 20-episode digital release. MacRo will team with Coley to develop a nationwide premium version of series that incorporates the best celebrity and non-celebrity Spades teams. In the new series centering on the card game, the top players will face off in the ultimate Spades tournament that leads up to a championship match with the winners receiving a grand cash prize.
Coley and Monica Boyd developed and produced the original series. MacRo Television Studios is the studio on the new iteration of the project. Aisha Corpas Wynn, Brennan Edwards and Coley are executive producers. Ahmadou Seck will also produce.
- 2/1/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Pop superstar — and Rolling Stone cover star — Dua Lipa sat down with Rs for this latest episode of The First Time.
The “New Rules” singer begins by describing the experience of hearing one of her songs on the radio for the first time. “I actually knew my song was going to get played because [DJ] Annie Mac had confirmed that she was going to play my song, ‘Be the One,’ on [BBC] Radio 1,” Lipa says. “I got home, quickly ran through the door, put my radio on, and then my song came...
The “New Rules” singer begins by describing the experience of hearing one of her songs on the radio for the first time. “I actually knew my song was going to get played because [DJ] Annie Mac had confirmed that she was going to play my song, ‘Be the One,’ on [BBC] Radio 1,” Lipa says. “I got home, quickly ran through the door, put my radio on, and then my song came...
- 1/14/2021
- by Adisa Duke
- Rollingstone.com
In the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The First Time, Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha from the movie Sylvie’s Love kick things off by discussing their initial reading of the script and what drew them to the film.
“I just remember listening to all the songs in the script, so it felt like a musical experience,” Thompson recalls. “I would pause it, play the song, and then continue reading with the song. So I remember it musically actually, which makes sense because I feel like the film is partially...
“I just remember listening to all the songs in the script, so it felt like a musical experience,” Thompson recalls. “I would pause it, play the song, and then continue reading with the song. So I remember it musically actually, which makes sense because I feel like the film is partially...
- 12/28/2020
- by Adisa Duke
- Rollingstone.com
Usher and a choir of over 90 singers from around the world deliver a multilingual version of “This Day,” a song from Netflix’s recent holiday film, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey.
Usher and Kiana Ledé helmed the original version of “This Day” — written by Philip Lawrence and Davy Nathan — from the film’s soundtrack, and both appear in the new clip for the song. The video opens with some footage from the movie, featuring stars Justin Cornwell and Sharon Rose, before Usher and Ledé lead an international dubbing cast as...
Usher and Kiana Ledé helmed the original version of “This Day” — written by Philip Lawrence and Davy Nathan — from the film’s soundtrack, and both appear in the new clip for the song. The video opens with some footage from the movie, featuring stars Justin Cornwell and Sharon Rose, before Usher and Ledé lead an international dubbing cast as...
- 12/21/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
On Juicy J’s new album The Hustle Continues — featuring verses by everyone from Megan Thee Stallion to Lil Baby to Logic — the Memphis producer and Mc asks: “Who the best group ever did it?” His answer? Three 6 Mafia, his infamous posse from Nineties Memphis with DJ Paul.
In the latest installment of The First Time, Juicy J reminisces about Three 6’s long career — starting in DJ Paul’s studio in the back of his mom’s house — and talks about waiting for the pandemic to end so they can do their reunion tour.
In the latest installment of The First Time, Juicy J reminisces about Three 6’s long career — starting in DJ Paul’s studio in the back of his mom’s house — and talks about waiting for the pandemic to end so they can do their reunion tour.
- 12/17/2020
- by Reed Dunlea
- Rollingstone.com
Mary Steenburgen has been a Hollywood actress for close to five decades now, but younger audiences might know her best from Book Club, the 2018 rom-com she starred in alongside fellow veteran actresses Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, and Candice Bergen. On Rolling Stone‘s The First Time, Steenburgen described how the shoot was both a bonding experience for the four women and a surprisingly challenging one.
“I remember there was a scene with Jane Fonda where she’s heartbroken about a man — we pick her up off the bed, take off her robe,...
“I remember there was a scene with Jane Fonda where she’s heartbroken about a man — we pick her up off the bed, take off her robe,...
- 11/24/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Keegan-Michael Key talks seeing U2 in concert, his new film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, and his love for Jimi Hendrix in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s The First Time.
Key kicks off with the first concert he ever saw: U2 on their Joshua Tree tour in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1987. He was taken by his father and stepmother, who happens to be Irish. “I wanted to go see Van Halen so bad, and my dad was like, ‘You’re not gonna go see Van Halen,'” he says.
Key kicks off with the first concert he ever saw: U2 on their Joshua Tree tour in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1987. He was taken by his father and stepmother, who happens to be Irish. “I wanted to go see Van Halen so bad, and my dad was like, ‘You’re not gonna go see Van Halen,'” he says.
- 11/19/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Rising indie rocker Beabadoobee turned in a performance of her song “Care” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday, November 19th.
Frontwoman Bea Kristi and her band kept things to the point as they ripped through the vintage-sounding track, which is packed with plenty of big guitar crunch that Kristi offset with her sweet vocal croon: “I don’t want your sympathy,” she sings before the final blow-out chorus, “I guess I’ve had it rough/But you don’t really/Care, care, care.”
“Care” appears on Beabadoobee’s debut album, Fake It Flowers,...
Frontwoman Bea Kristi and her band kept things to the point as they ripped through the vintage-sounding track, which is packed with plenty of big guitar crunch that Kristi offset with her sweet vocal croon: “I don’t want your sympathy,” she sings before the final blow-out chorus, “I guess I’ve had it rough/But you don’t really/Care, care, care.”
“Care” appears on Beabadoobee’s debut album, Fake It Flowers,...
- 11/19/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Sundance Film Festival is just around the corner and from the look of things, it’s going to be a little different this year.
The Sundance Institute released a teaser trailer on Tuesday to hype people up for the 2021 iteration Park City-based fest which has been the destination for some of Hollywood’s most critically acclaimed and iconic films. The trailer also serves as the launch of the dedicated online home for the fest. Sundance is set to run from January 28 to February 3, 2021.
“Welcome to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. A new chapter filled with possibilities. Despite the challenges this year has brought, nothing could stop us from celebrating independent film, visionary artists, unique perspectives, and you, our adventurous audiences. So, for the first time ever, we are bringing the festival to you—both online and in the real world across the US and beyond,” said Festival Director Tabitha Jackson...
The Sundance Institute released a teaser trailer on Tuesday to hype people up for the 2021 iteration Park City-based fest which has been the destination for some of Hollywood’s most critically acclaimed and iconic films. The trailer also serves as the launch of the dedicated online home for the fest. Sundance is set to run from January 28 to February 3, 2021.
“Welcome to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. A new chapter filled with possibilities. Despite the challenges this year has brought, nothing could stop us from celebrating independent film, visionary artists, unique perspectives, and you, our adventurous audiences. So, for the first time ever, we are bringing the festival to you—both online and in the real world across the US and beyond,” said Festival Director Tabitha Jackson...
- 11/17/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Hugh Grant discusses The Undoing, auditioning for Four Weddings and a Funeral, and more on Rolling Stone‘s The First Time.
Grant kicked things off by explaining how he got involved with The Undoing, the six-part HBO series he stars in alongside Nicole Kidman. He was initially surprised that director Susanne Bier was interested in working with him. “Although I think she’s a brilliant film director, I thought she hated me,” he admits. “We’d had this experience 10 years previously where we developed a script together, and I kept saying,...
Grant kicked things off by explaining how he got involved with The Undoing, the six-part HBO series he stars in alongside Nicole Kidman. He was initially surprised that director Susanne Bier was interested in working with him. “Although I think she’s a brilliant film director, I thought she hated me,” he admits. “We’d had this experience 10 years previously where we developed a script together, and I kept saying,...
- 11/10/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The Walking Dead actress Lauren Cohan didn’t think she would reprise her character Maggie Greene in the show’s season 10 finale, which airs this Sunday, October 4th. But after the cancellation of Whiskey Cavalier, in which she starred, it only seemed right to return to her most iconic role.
“[Showrunner] Angela Kang and I felt that there could be so much more awesome Maggie story to tell,” she said on Rolling Stone’s The First Time. “It was a very fluid creative conversation where you felt so many cool possibilities.
“[Showrunner] Angela Kang and I felt that there could be so much more awesome Maggie story to tell,” she said on Rolling Stone’s The First Time. “It was a very fluid creative conversation where you felt so many cool possibilities.
- 10/2/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
On the release day of their debut album Super One, K-pop group SuperM discussed their career in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
The leader of the group, Baekhyun, kicked it off by recalling what it was like to hear their song on the radio for the first time. “I remember also texting my mom and telling her to listen because our song was on the radio,” he said. “It was a really cool and surreal experience.”
Lee Tae-min then described the first time they performed for an audience.
The leader of the group, Baekhyun, kicked it off by recalling what it was like to hear their song on the radio for the first time. “I remember also texting my mom and telling her to listen because our song was on the radio,” he said. “It was a really cool and surreal experience.”
Lee Tae-min then described the first time they performed for an audience.
- 9/25/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The orange waterfall on the cover says it all: My Morning Jacket bliss out on 10 psychedelic, southern-tinged, soft-rock mood-pieces about traveling, getting wasted, and falling in love. The songs are leftovers from the sessions that yielded 2015’s The Waterfall, but they feel less like a tributary and more like their own river. When Covid-19 forced the world into lockdown, frontman Jim James played his iTunes on random and stumbled on “Spinning My Wheels,” a gorgeous ballad about feeling stuck that he and his bandmates had orchestrated with a Rhodes piano...
- 9/24/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Joel Kinnaman discussed his new movie The Secrets We Keep, working with Will Smith and the upcoming Suicide Squad sequel in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s The First Time.
Kinnaman kicked things off with his latest film The Secrets We Keep, out now, which he starred in alongside Noomi Rapace. The movie takes place post-wwii and centers around a Holocaust survivor (Rapace) who kidnaps her neighbor (Kinnaman), convinced that he’s the former Nazi who killed her sister.
Israeli filmmaker Yuval Adler was brought in to improve the script.
Kinnaman kicked things off with his latest film The Secrets We Keep, out now, which he starred in alongside Noomi Rapace. The movie takes place post-wwii and centers around a Holocaust survivor (Rapace) who kidnaps her neighbor (Kinnaman), convinced that he’s the former Nazi who killed her sister.
Israeli filmmaker Yuval Adler was brought in to improve the script.
- 9/23/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Bruce Springsteen shares a handful of formative musical memories in the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
When asked about the first time a song changed his life, the rock legend shared a vivid story from his adolescence, when the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” came on the car radio while he was in the car with his mother. “I immediately demanded she let me out, I ran to the bowling alley, ran down a long neon-lit aisle… ran to the phone booth, got in the phone booth,...
When asked about the first time a song changed his life, the rock legend shared a vivid story from his adolescence, when the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” came on the car radio while he was in the car with his mother. “I immediately demanded she let me out, I ran to the bowling alley, ran down a long neon-lit aisle… ran to the phone booth, got in the phone booth,...
- 9/21/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
For Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård, performing onscreen very much runs in the family: His father Stellan Skarsgård, as well as older brothers Alexander and Gustaf, have all made names for themselves as prominent film and television actors. But it didn’t always come easy for Bill.
“As I grew older and came into my teenage years, I had a hard time with finding my own identity as an actor, coming from such a big acting family in such a small country as Sweden,” he tells Rolling Stone‘s The First Time.
“As I grew older and came into my teenage years, I had a hard time with finding my own identity as an actor, coming from such a big acting family in such a small country as Sweden,” he tells Rolling Stone‘s The First Time.
- 9/16/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Jason Scott Lee discusses his intense training regimen for Mulan, the lessons he learned from playing Bruce Lee and more in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
In the new live-action remake of Mulan, Lee plays the main villain, Bori Khan, and his training included a week in New Zealand working with a Maori Haka master, and then a bout of bulking up that found him dropping about 40 pounds of fat and adding 40 pounds of muscle. “I could feel that; I felt like a new man,...
In the new live-action remake of Mulan, Lee plays the main villain, Bori Khan, and his training included a week in New Zealand working with a Maori Haka master, and then a bout of bulking up that found him dropping about 40 pounds of fat and adding 40 pounds of muscle. “I could feel that; I felt like a new man,...
- 9/11/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Andy Richter discussed his new Audible project, meeting Conan O’Brien, basic flight etiquette and more on the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s The First Time.
Richter kicked off by discussing Vroom Vroom, a new Audible project he stars in alongside Yvette Nicole Brown. “It’s basically a sitcom that is only audio,” he says. “I really enjoy doing voice work. The fact that I get to do cartoon voices is a dream come true. That, and being on a talk show when there are animal segments. Those are the...
Richter kicked off by discussing Vroom Vroom, a new Audible project he stars in alongside Yvette Nicole Brown. “It’s basically a sitcom that is only audio,” he says. “I really enjoy doing voice work. The fact that I get to do cartoon voices is a dream come true. That, and being on a talk show when there are animal segments. Those are the...
- 9/9/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Stranger Things”Joe Keery has shared a new single, “Keep Your Head Up,” released under the moniker Djo.
Influenced by psych-rock, the track kicks off with a dizzying electro-drum beat. “Got to love yourself/go ahead touch yourself,” he sings in a Bee Gees-esque register. “Take that time alone before your heart belongs to someone else.”
Pre-Stranger Things, Keery formed his first band, Post Animal, during his college years at Chicagos’ DePaul University. He started the solo project Djo last year, releasing his first LP, Twenty Twenty.
Keery will...
Influenced by psych-rock, the track kicks off with a dizzying electro-drum beat. “Got to love yourself/go ahead touch yourself,” he sings in a Bee Gees-esque register. “Take that time alone before your heart belongs to someone else.”
Pre-Stranger Things, Keery formed his first band, Post Animal, during his college years at Chicagos’ DePaul University. He started the solo project Djo last year, releasing his first LP, Twenty Twenty.
Keery will...
- 9/9/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Comedian Pauly Shore recounts his first-ever stand-up show, the creation of his character “the Weasel” and more in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
Shore’s next project, Guest House, hits on-demand services Friday, September 4th. In the film, Shore plays a squatter who refuses to move out of a guest house where he’d been living after his friend, the previous owner, moves out, and a newly engaged couple moves in. Mayhem and comedy, of course, ensue. Shore says he was initially slated for a...
Shore’s next project, Guest House, hits on-demand services Friday, September 4th. In the film, Shore plays a squatter who refuses to move out of a guest house where he’d been living after his friend, the previous owner, moves out, and a newly engaged couple moves in. Mayhem and comedy, of course, ensue. Shore says he was initially slated for a...
- 9/4/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Actor Travis Fimmel discusses the monotony of milking cows, mortifying auditions and more in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
The Vikings star grew up on a cattle farm in Australia, started helping out as soon as he was old enough, but quickly grew tired of the chores. “We would milk before school and after school, and I really hate milking cows — I did so much of it,” he quips. “For hours, and hours and hours, and it’s exactly the same thing over and over and over again.
The Vikings star grew up on a cattle farm in Australia, started helping out as soon as he was old enough, but quickly grew tired of the chores. “We would milk before school and after school, and I really hate milking cows — I did so much of it,” he quips. “For hours, and hours and hours, and it’s exactly the same thing over and over and over again.
- 9/2/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
On the heels of starring in the Netflix film All Together Now, Auliʻi Cravalho talks Moana, meeting Dewayne Johnson, and Facetiming Lin Manuel-Miranda in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.”
Cravalho kicked off with the first time she watched Moana, the beloved Disney animation film she starred in. After screening it on a producer’s laptop, she saw it in theaters at the premiere. “It was hectic and mind-blowing to hear everyone’s reactions to the things that I was like, ‘I hope people find that funny,...
Cravalho kicked off with the first time she watched Moana, the beloved Disney animation film she starred in. After screening it on a producer’s laptop, she saw it in theaters at the premiere. “It was hectic and mind-blowing to hear everyone’s reactions to the things that I was like, ‘I hope people find that funny,...
- 8/30/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Former Saturday Night Live bandleader G.E. Smith reminisces about meeting David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and Hall & Oates, performing alongside Gilda Radner and crafting the Wayne’s World theme song in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time video series.
While SNL was a revolving door of celebrities, Smith — who releases his new album Stony Hill with soul singer LeRoy Bell on August 28th — admitted the first time he was ever starstruck was when he crossed paths with David Bowie.
“I met David Bowie just downtown at a party.
While SNL was a revolving door of celebrities, Smith — who releases his new album Stony Hill with soul singer LeRoy Bell on August 28th — admitted the first time he was ever starstruck was when he crossed paths with David Bowie.
“I met David Bowie just downtown at a party.
- 8/26/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Jake Johnson and Rob Riggle discuss their upcoming Netflix animated show Hoops, the first albums they ever bought, improv jitters and more in the latest installment of The First Time.
Hoops, created by Ben Hoffman, is centered around a delusional, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach, voiced by Johnson. Johnson says the show was originally pitched to MTV with the idea of making “something that was so loud and ridiculous that MTV had to pass on it but to not water it down at all.”
MTV did indeed pass on the show,...
Hoops, created by Ben Hoffman, is centered around a delusional, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach, voiced by Johnson. Johnson says the show was originally pitched to MTV with the idea of making “something that was so loud and ridiculous that MTV had to pass on it but to not water it down at all.”
MTV did indeed pass on the show,...
- 8/21/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Joe Keery, best known for his role as Steve Harrington in Stranger Things, appeared on Rolling Stone’s The First Time to discuss his latest project, Spree.
In the black comedy satire directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko and executive-produced by Drake, Keery plays a psychotic, murderous ride-hail driver and influencer named Kurt Kunkle who attempts to go viral by killing various passengers.
When asked what his first impression of the script was, Keery said: “I was disturbed and laughing and kind of shocked, and interested to meet Eugene. I remember being like,...
In the black comedy satire directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko and executive-produced by Drake, Keery plays a psychotic, murderous ride-hail driver and influencer named Kurt Kunkle who attempts to go viral by killing various passengers.
When asked what his first impression of the script was, Keery said: “I was disturbed and laughing and kind of shocked, and interested to meet Eugene. I remember being like,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Succession star Nicholas Braun discusses the ever-looming presence of “Cousin Greg” in his life, acting advice from Philip Seymour Hoffman and making the music video for his pop punk quarantine song “Antibodies” in the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
Braun recently garnered his first Emmy nomination for playing Cousin Greg on Succession, and he recounts the experience alongside anecdotes about being referred to as both “Cousin Greg” and “Greg the Egg” on the street. He also reveals the first great Succession meme he ever saw — a...
Braun recently garnered his first Emmy nomination for playing Cousin Greg on Succession, and he recounts the experience alongside anecdotes about being referred to as both “Cousin Greg” and “Greg the Egg” on the street. He also reveals the first great Succession meme he ever saw — a...
- 8/18/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback — co-stars of the upcoming Netflix action flick Project Power — discuss their earliest performances, first records, and most striking celebrity encounters in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
The clip opens with Fishback recalling her audition for Project Power. She flew out to Los Angeles and lost her wallet along the way, but kept her composure to not only make it through an emotional audition scene, but then also perform some spoken-word poetry for Foxx. As she was leaving, Fishback mentioned her lost wallet,...
The clip opens with Fishback recalling her audition for Project Power. She flew out to Los Angeles and lost her wallet along the way, but kept her composure to not only make it through an emotional audition scene, but then also perform some spoken-word poetry for Foxx. As she was leaving, Fishback mentioned her lost wallet,...
- 8/12/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Justice Smith made his first foray into voice acting with Phreaks, an Audible original series that dropped on August 4th. The 10-part scripted original also stars Golden Globe winner Christian Slater, Carrie Coon, Ben McKenzie, and up-and-coming actress Bree Klauser. For Smith, who previously appeared in films such as Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Detective Pikachu, his journey to the world of audio dramas wasn’t a straightforward one, as he tells Rolling Stone during his “The First Time” segment.
“I remember when I was a kid, the first audition...
“I remember when I was a kid, the first audition...
- 8/5/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Singer, actress and dancer Sabrina Carpenter spoke with Rolling Stone‘s The First Time about her new film Work It, which arrives August 7th on streaming platforms.
In the movie, Carpenter portrays Quinn Ackerman, a girl whose passion for dance is well beyond her actual talent or skills. When she learns that admission to her dream college rests on her performance at a dance competition, Quinn enlists a ragtag squad to teach her the proper moves and help her achieve her dream.
“I read [the script], and I just instantly fell in...
In the movie, Carpenter portrays Quinn Ackerman, a girl whose passion for dance is well beyond her actual talent or skills. When she learns that admission to her dream college rests on her performance at a dance competition, Quinn enlists a ragtag squad to teach her the proper moves and help her achieve her dream.
“I read [the script], and I just instantly fell in...
- 8/3/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Actor Daniel Brühl discussed the intense secrecy that surrounds even a simple mask in the Marvel universe, immediately falling in love with the script for The Alienist and more in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
The actor is currently portraying Dr. Laszlo Kreizler on Season Two of The Alienist, which airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on TNT. The period drama/psychological thriller is based on Caleb Carr’s 1994 novel by the same name, and Brühl says the script for the pilot hooked him immediately.
“Sometimes...
The actor is currently portraying Dr. Laszlo Kreizler on Season Two of The Alienist, which airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on TNT. The period drama/psychological thriller is based on Caleb Carr’s 1994 novel by the same name, and Brühl says the script for the pilot hooked him immediately.
“Sometimes...
- 7/29/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Actress Alison Brie discusses working with her husband, Dave Franco, on his new horror movie The Rental, some of her biggest TV roles and the insane amount of stress she felt working at a frozen yogurt shop in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
Franco wrote and directed The Rental, and Brie talks about how enjoyable it was to watch him sink into the project — from writing the script to working with him on set. “The actor/director relationship is so much about trust and when...
Franco wrote and directed The Rental, and Brie talks about how enjoyable it was to watch him sink into the project — from writing the script to working with him on set. “The actor/director relationship is so much about trust and when...
- 7/24/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Kiki Layne had a screen debut that may sound familiar to any working Chicago performer. “Must have been my episode of Chicago Med,” the actress and star of Netflix’s The Old Guard says, punctuating it with a laugh. “All Chicago actors know: It was either on Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. Somewhere in Chicagoland, you ended up, you got yourself a credit.”
In this episode of “The First Time,” Layne discussed her new role alongside Charlize Theron — “Charlize is dope as fuck” — and the filming process for The Old Guard,...
In this episode of “The First Time,” Layne discussed her new role alongside Charlize Theron — “Charlize is dope as fuck” — and the filming process for The Old Guard,...
- 7/10/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
George Lopez discusses seeing Kiss in concert, meeting Richard Pryor and stealing Freddie Prinze’s headstone in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s The First Time.
Lopez kicks off with the first album he ever bought, Kiss’ 1975 Alive! He then asked his grandparents for $14 to see their concert at the Forum in Los Angeles in February 1976. “You would have thought that I was asking for money to buy a house next door to my grandparents, the way my grandfather treated those $14.”
He discussed the origins of the George Lopez television show,...
Lopez kicks off with the first album he ever bought, Kiss’ 1975 Alive! He then asked his grandparents for $14 to see their concert at the Forum in Los Angeles in February 1976. “You would have thought that I was asking for money to buy a house next door to my grandparents, the way my grandfather treated those $14.”
He discussed the origins of the George Lopez television show,...
- 6/30/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Jeremy Pope — who was most recently seen starring on Broadway in Choir Boy and Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations — discusses his role on Netflix’s Hollywood, being nominated for two Tony Awards, and crying to Whitney Houston in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.”
Early in the clip, Pope recalls how he met Hollywood creator Ryan Murphy the weekend of the Tony Awards in 2019, the year he was nominated for two: for his lead role in Choir Boy and for...
Early in the clip, Pope recalls how he met Hollywood creator Ryan Murphy the weekend of the Tony Awards in 2019, the year he was nominated for two: for his lead role in Choir Boy and for...
- 6/29/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
On the heels of her performances in The Invisible Man and Shirley, Elisabeth Moss discusses her acting career in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s “The First Time.”
Moss launched the segment by sharing the time she starred in an Excedrin commercial, which she described as dramatic. “Of course, I got the one that was a serious monologue straight to camera about pain,” she cracks.
She then recalled the first time she experienced the work of Shirley Jackson, when she read the horror novelist’s 1948 short story “The Lottery” as a teenager.
Moss launched the segment by sharing the time she starred in an Excedrin commercial, which she described as dramatic. “Of course, I got the one that was a serious monologue straight to camera about pain,” she cracks.
She then recalled the first time she experienced the work of Shirley Jackson, when she read the horror novelist’s 1948 short story “The Lottery” as a teenager.
- 6/25/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Paul Reiser discusses The Kominsky Method, appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and meeting Helen Hunt in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.”
Reiser kicked off with how he got the role of Martin Schneider on Season Two of The Kominsky Method, adding that he met Chuck Lorre years ago when the showrunner was an intern, “or a baby writer — little diapers, little pencils.”
Reiser had called Lorre to congratulate him on the first season of the Netflix comedy-drama, which stars Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin.
Reiser kicked off with how he got the role of Martin Schneider on Season Two of The Kominsky Method, adding that he met Chuck Lorre years ago when the showrunner was an intern, “or a baby writer — little diapers, little pencils.”
Reiser had called Lorre to congratulate him on the first season of the Netflix comedy-drama, which stars Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin.
- 6/24/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Legendary skater and cultural icon Tony Hawk sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss playing a stunt double for David Spade, breaking his elbow while filming a Gap commercial and more in the latest installment of The First Time. He also teased his new MasterClass — during which he teaches skateboarding, of course.
Hawk begins the episode with a reminder that skating wasn’t always easy for him; he started at age nine. “The first time I picked up a skateboard, I ran into the fence because I didn’t know how to turn,...
Hawk begins the episode with a reminder that skating wasn’t always easy for him; he started at age nine. “The first time I picked up a skateboard, I ran into the fence because I didn’t know how to turn,...
- 6/23/2020
- by Kimberly Aleah
- Rollingstone.com
On the heels of starring in the new horror film You Should Have Left, Kevin Bacon discussed his career and more in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.”
Bacon kicked off with the first time he worked with You Should Have Left director David Koepp, known for writing the screenplays to Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible and more. The actor starred in the writer-director’s 1999 film Stir of Echoes. “Ever since we made it, I wanted to do something else with him,” he said. “But it took 20 years of,...
Bacon kicked off with the first time he worked with You Should Have Left director David Koepp, known for writing the screenplays to Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible and more. The actor starred in the writer-director’s 1999 film Stir of Echoes. “Ever since we made it, I wanted to do something else with him,” he said. “But it took 20 years of,...
- 6/22/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Chris Chalk and Matthew Rhys, co-stars of the new HBO series Perry Mason, appear on Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time” to discuss their first CD purchases, the first time meeting each other, and their first job experiences.
“I worked at Pier 1 for 58 minutes,” Chalk says. “And they said, ‘Why don’t you go in the back, fill out your paperwork, and then we can get started.’ And I left and never came back. I was like, ‘Man, this is not my life.’ The description of the job was just,...
“I worked at Pier 1 for 58 minutes,” Chalk says. “And they said, ‘Why don’t you go in the back, fill out your paperwork, and then we can get started.’ And I left and never came back. I was like, ‘Man, this is not my life.’ The description of the job was just,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Longtime character actor Stephen Root is no stranger to acclaimed HBO series, having already appeared in Barry, True Blood, Veep and Boardwalk Empire. His next role for the network: A gig on HBO’s gritty Perry Mason reboot. In this installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time, Root talks about his film debut, many of his beloved characters — Fuches on Barry, Jimmy James on NewsRadio, Bill Dauterive on King of the Hill — working with the Coen Brothers and his latest role.
“I had always known the original show Perry Mason from the Sixties,...
“I had always known the original show Perry Mason from the Sixties,...
- 6/17/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Prolific actress Judy Greer talks her first audition, voiceover work, her new horror film Into the Dark: Good Boy and her experiences working on projects like Arrested Development and the recent Halloween reboot in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
The actress also discussed how she managed to kick her cigarette habit thanks to her new hobby: Knitting. “I will say that it did save my life on set. It’s also a good thing to do while you’re in quarantine. I knit my own wardrobe now,...
The actress also discussed how she managed to kick her cigarette habit thanks to her new hobby: Knitting. “I will say that it did save my life on set. It’s also a good thing to do while you’re in quarantine. I knit my own wardrobe now,...
- 6/13/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Rob Huebel may be an actor-comedian, but his role on HBO’s I Know This Much Is True — in which he plays Mark Ruffalo’s best friend Leo — is pretty serious. “It’s not funny at all,” he notes in the latest installment of “The First Time.” “It is so awesome and layered and complexed. It’s Mark Ruffalo. It’s all Mark Ruffalo.”
In the clip above, Huebel kicks off with discussing one of his first auditions — a Cheerios commercial — when a six-year-old child started crying, and then abruptly reprimanded himself.
In the clip above, Huebel kicks off with discussing one of his first auditions — a Cheerios commercial — when a six-year-old child started crying, and then abruptly reprimanded himself.
- 6/11/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
In undead mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, Harvey Guillén plays Guillermo — the wallflower “familiar” to a quartet of vamps who get one another’s nerves while sharing a house on Staten Island. Before the , we caught up with the actor for our latest “The First Time” video series. In it, he tells us about auditioning for the show, fan reactions, meeting Lin-Manuel Miranda (who shared his love of the series on Twitter), and working with Mark Hamill for the first time.
First, he explains that he decided he...
First, he explains that he decided he...
- 6/10/2020
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
As Insecure Season Four wraps up this Sunday on HBO, Jay Ellis appears on the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time” video series to discuss his directorial debut on the show, partying with Issa Rae, and meeting Tom Cruise.
Ellis kicks off with recalling the time he changed his name to Jay. Born Wendell Ramone Ellis Jr., the actor was called “Little Wendell” as a child, and expressed his hatred of it at a family reunion. Many of his aunts began calling him Jay as a nickname instead,...
Ellis kicks off with recalling the time he changed his name to Jay. Born Wendell Ramone Ellis Jr., the actor was called “Little Wendell” as a child, and expressed his hatred of it at a family reunion. Many of his aunts began calling him Jay as a nickname instead,...
- 6/9/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
13 Reasons Why star Dylan Minnette appeared on Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time” interview series to reminisce about the show and his career as an actor. The controversial teen drama’s final season was released on Netflix last week, and Minnette hopes that its themes around mental health have a lasting impact for audiences.
“It took a second for it to become an actual worldwide conversation,” he said. “I understand why, from the get-go, every story point and every move that the show made that it did…Really, the whole...
“It took a second for it to become an actual worldwide conversation,” he said. “I understand why, from the get-go, every story point and every move that the show made that it did…Really, the whole...
- 6/8/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
John Malkovich appears in our latest installment of The First Time, timed to the May 29th premiere of the new Greg Daniels/Steve Carell series Space Force, in which he stars alongside Carell. The legendarily droll actor discusses his first Zoom happy hour, his first time singing folk gospel, teaching himself to play the guitar, and meeting co-star Jimmy O. Yang.
“I immediately thought Jimmy was very funny,” he says of the Silicon Valley actor. “Very smart, super dry. He actually reminds me of my own son in certain ways.
“I immediately thought Jimmy was very funny,” he says of the Silicon Valley actor. “Very smart, super dry. He actually reminds me of my own son in certain ways.
- 5/29/2020
- by Shannon Mason
- Rollingstone.com
Silicon Valley actor Jimmy O. Yang appears in our latest installment of The First Time to talk about his latest show, Space Force, starring Steve Carell and premiering this Friday, May 29th, on Netflix. Yang discussed the first album he ever bought (a bootleg of the Bad Boys II soundtrack, in 2003) and the first time he met Space Force co-creator Greg Daniels.
“I think it was in the audition room,” Yang recalled. “I auditioned for Ben Schwartz’s part … I had a lot of fun preparing for that audition, [but] Ben...
“I think it was in the audition room,” Yang recalled. “I auditioned for Ben Schwartz’s part … I had a lot of fun preparing for that audition, [but] Ben...
- 5/28/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Tawny Newsome is already known for her improv skills and for her work on the Yo! Is This Racist? podcast. With Space Force debuting this week on Netflix, the series’ hilarious young star sat down with Rolling Stone for its “The First Time” video series to talk recording music at Muscle Shoals, participating in rodeo team penning, and meeting Steve Carell for the first time.
Space Force is meant as a workplace comedy about Mark R. Naird, a four-star general (Carell), who teams up with an eccentric scientist (John Malkovich...
Space Force is meant as a workplace comedy about Mark R. Naird, a four-star general (Carell), who teams up with an eccentric scientist (John Malkovich...
- 5/27/2020
- by Kimberly Aleah
- Rollingstone.com
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