Daisy Edgar-Jones, Paul Mescal, and director Lenny Abrahamson take us behind the scenes of a memorably intimate moment in the Hulu series.
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Awards Extra! Inside 2020’s Most Emmy-Worthy TV Shows
Explosive finales, memorably intimate moments, and, yes, wigs—Vanity Fair takes you behind the scenes of this year’s best TV. Just in time for Emmy nominations, directors, actors, showrunners, and composers from The Good Place, Schitt’s Creek, Normal People, and more share the secrets to getting each scene just right.
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As the television landscape grows ever vaster, actors otherwise sidelined have gotten a chance to strut their stuff at center stage, on their very own series. This spring perhaps no one got a juicier opportunity to do just that than Zoë Kravitz. Long a supporting presence in material as varied as …
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As Emmy nominations approach, Vanity Fair’s HWD team is once again diving deep into how some of this season’s greatest scenes and characters came together. You can read more of these close looks here. THE SCENE: SCHITT’S CREEK SEASON SIX, EPISODE 14 The final season of Schitt’s Creek saw David Rose (Dan …
As Emmy nominations approach, Vanity Fair’s HWD team is once again diving deep into some of the shows that struck us most, and asking actors and creators how the season’s greatest scenes and characters came together. You can read more of these close looks here. The Character: Catherine the Great, The …
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There’s more to watch than ever, but series have fewer episodes—and fewer seasons—to prove themselves. Friends and Lost might not happen today.
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The NBC star on her favorite props from the dearly departed sitcom.
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James Marsden was in the only place he could be. Not in his acting career, which has been fruitfully darting this way and that for years—quite literally, sitting for a recent phone call in his car in the driveway of his Los Angeles home, the only spot where he gets decent cell reception. “If it …
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On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, a final For Your Consideration pitch for the most Emmy-worthy shows and performances of the year.
The actor breaks down the eye damage, multiple wigs, and impromptu mud baths behind TV’s most popular new hero.
A lone figure steps through the door, settles in to his shadowy surroundings, and finally draws his weapon as the action begins. Within the world of The Mandalorian, it’s the masked hero pulling out his laser pistol during a brawl with alien thugs in a snowbound cantina. In the video above, it’s …
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As Emmy nominations approach, Vanity Fair’s HWD team is once again diving deep into how some of this season’s greatest scenes and characters came together. You can read more of these close looks here. There’s a sense of dread permeating the push for equality in Mrs. America. Despite the disco-dazzling …
