Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episodes

Episode 1

Comedy Actors

Sun, Jun 25, 201740 mins

Dan Levy, Kumail Nanjiani, Ramy Youssef, Kenan Thompson andRicky Gervais discuss their work as comedy actors.

Episode 2

Comedy Actresses

Sun, Jul 2, 2017

Episode 3

Drama Actors

Sun, Jul 9, 201739 mins

Riz Ahmed, Sterling K. Brown, John Lithgow, Ewan McGregor, Billy Bob Thornton and Jeffrey Wright talk about what scenes they were nervous to approach and the process of letting a character go.

Episode 4

Drama Actresses

Sun, Jul 16, 2017

Episode 5

Comedy Showrunners

Sun, Jul 23, 201740 mins

Judd Apatow, Kenya Barris, Gloria Calderon Kellett, David Mandel, Scott Silveri and Phoebe Waller-Bridge open up about what draws them to certain stories, the complications of network casting and the pressure to get political.

Episode 6

Drama Showrunners

Sun, Jul 30, 201739 mins

Ava DuVernay, Noah Hawley, David E. Kelley, Jenji Kohan, Lisa Joy and Ryan Murphy talk about how to make talent comfortable when shooting sensitive subject matters and the TV families that they most identify with.

Episode 7

Reality

Sun, Aug 6, 201740 mins

W. Kamau Bell, Kris Jenner, Leah Remini, RuPaul and SallyAnn Salsano open up about why their shows connect so strongly with audiences, their first industry jobs and the distresses of social media.

Episode 8

Directors

Sun, Jan 21, 201839 mins

Six of the most innovative directors sit down with us and discuss their favorite movie moments.

Episode 9

Actors

Sun, Jan 28, 2018

Six of the year's most acclaimed actors working in film, have a conversation that ranged from funny to frivolous to fearsome.

Episode 10

Actresses

Sun, Feb 4, 201839 mins

Six of the year's most acclaimed actors working in film, have a conversation that ranged from funny to frivolous to fearsome.

Episode 11

Producers

Sun, Feb 11, 2018

Episode 12

Writers

Sun, Feb 18, 201840 mins

Fatih Akin, Darren Aronofsky, Emily V. Gordon, Anthony McCarten, Jordan Peele, and Aaron Sorkin talk about the toughest writing moments that they overcame, the screenplays that they most admire and the best advice for new writers.

Episode 13

Cinematographers

Mon, Feb 26, 2018

Episode 14

Actors Live

Sun, Mar 4, 2018