Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter - Season 5

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Comedy Actresses

1 - Comedy Actresses

Air Date: June 23, 2019

Regina Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Maya Rudolph, Jane Fonda, Constance Wu, Tiffany Haddish and Phoebe Waller-Bridge discuss acting in a comedy role.

Comedy Actors

2 - Comedy Actors

Air Date: June 30, 2019

Sacha Baron Cohen, Jim Carrey, Ted Danson, Don Cheadle, Henry Winkler and Timothy Simons discuss the craft of acting.

Drama Actresses

3 - Drama Actresses

Air Date: July 7, 2019

Michelle Williams, Emilia Clarke, Danai Gurira, Niecy Nash, Patricia Arquette and Christine Baranski discuss the craft of acting.

Drama Actors

4 - Drama Actors

Air Date: July 14, 2019

Stephan James, Hugh Grant, Diego Luna, Billy Porter, Richard Madden and Sam Rockwell discuss the craft of acting.

Comedy Showrunners

5 - Comedy Showrunners

Air Date: July 21, 2019

Jerrod Carmichael, Tanya Saracho, Alan Yang, Bill Hader, David Mandel and Ali Rushfield discuss creating a comedy for television.

Drama Showrunners

6 - Drama Showrunners

Air Date: July 28, 2019

Sam Esmail, Marti Noxon, John Singleton, Steve Canals, Sera Gamble and Nic Pizzolatto discuss the challenges in creating a drama series today.

TV Directors

7 - TV Directors

Air Date: August 4, 2019

Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay, Ben Stiller, David Nutter, Patty Jenkins and Jean-Marc Vallee discuss their work as TV directors.

Directors

8 - Directors

Air Date: January 5, 2020

Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Todd Philipps (Joker), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes) and Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) discuss their films.

Actresses

9 - Actresses

Air Date: January 12, 2020

Rebecca Ford, Renée Zellweger, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Lopez discuss the craft of acting.

Actors

10 - Actors

Air Date: January 19, 2020

Stephen Galloway, Adam Driver, Adam Sandler, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Jamie Foxx, Shia LaBeouf discuss the craft of acting.

Producers

11 - Producers

Air Date: January 26, 2020

Rebecca Ford, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Charlize Theron, David Heyman, Dan Lin, Peter Chernin, Debra Martin Chase discuss producing films.

Writers

12 - Writers

Air Date: February 2, 2020

Stephen Galloway, Taika Waititi, Anthony McCarten, Lorene Scafaria, Kasi Lemmons, Destin Daniel Cretton discuss writing in films.

Documentary

13 - Documentary

Air Date: February 9, 2020

Rebecca Keegan, Julia Reichert, Asif Kapadia, Lauren Greenfield, Nanfu Wang, Todd Douglas Miller discuss creating a documentary.

Executives

14 - Executives

Air Date: February 16, 2020

Matthew Belloni, Tom Rothman, Scott Stuber, Toby Emmerich, Donna Langley, Jennifer Salke, Jim Gianopulos, Alan Horn discuss their roles as studio executives.