I'm So Obsessed

Elijah Allan-Blitz is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, musician and actor. He also creates AR and VR experiences like his Emmy Award-nominated virtual reality experience Take Every Wave: Laird in VR. Other VR experiences from Allan-Blitz include one for Michael Pollan's book How To Change Your Mind and another that was a companion piece for the Ken Burns documentary, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War. His latest project is the Disney Plus short film and AR experience Remembering, which stars Brie Larson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sohn is a filmmaker, animator, story artist and voice over. He's worked on Pixar films like Luca, The Incredibles, Wall-E, Up dating back to Finding Nemo. Sohn directed the film The Good Dinosaur and is directing the upcoming film Elemental. During his time at Pixar, Sohn has not only gotten to work creating films, but he's become a popular favorite for voicing characters. He played Emile in Ratatouille and Squishy in Monsters University. Most recently Sohn gave a scene stealing performance as Sox the robot comfort cat in the film Lightyear. Lightyear is now available in 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD as well as for streaming on Disney Plus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick Read Johnson is an accomplished writer and filmmaker who has directed movies like Spaced Invaders, Angus, Baby's Day Out, The Genesis Code and co-wrote the story for the film DragonHeart. His latest project is the film 5-25-77. It's a semi-autobiographical film about a teenager named Patrick from Illinois who wants to be a filmmaker. Three months before Star Wars: A New Hope opened in 1977, he gets to see a working print at Lucasfilm effects house Industrial Light and Magic. Technically, he's the world's first Star Wars fan. Johnson's semi-autobiographical film 5-25-77 is a loving homage to Star Wars and other '70s sci-fi films. But it's also a fantastic coming of age film that artfully showcases how finding out who you are might be as easy as following your dreams. The film was shot in 2004, but through various financial setbacks is finally being released this week. In fact, what you'll learn quickly from my conversation with Patrick is that it's hard to separate the man from his film and that the making of 5-25-77 is as much an adventure as what's on screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jaren Lewison is best known from his role as Ben Gross on the hit Netflix series Never Have I Ever. The show was created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. It's a coming of age comedy and drama that follows an Indian-American teen that wants to spruce up her social status. But her friends, family and feelings won’t make it easy on her. You can watch all three seasons of Never Have I Ever on Netflix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Ann Emery has enjoyed roles in movies including ‘Hitch’ and TV shows like ‘Breaking Bad.” For Apple TV’s limited series about the tragic events at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina, Emery plays a committed health care provider trying to do right by her stranded patients when everything else goes horribly wrong. Based on true events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Jackson Harper is an actor and playwright. You know him best for his Emmy nominated performance as Chidi on the show The Good Place as well as for his performances in series like Love Life, The Underground Railroad, Jack Ryan and the film Midsommar. William's latest project is the new Peacock original series The Resort which is a coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery. You can watch The Resort on Peacock with new episodes dropping on Thursdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know Dominic Monaghan best from as Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Charles Pace in the series Lost as well as from films like X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. His latest project is the new series Moonhaven which takes place a 100 years into the future in a Utopian colony on a moon. Moonhaven airs exclusively on AMC Plus with new episodes dropping on Thursdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Merchant is an actor, comedian, writer and director who's behind such shows as The Office, Extras and Life's Too Short. He's won two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards and an Emmy. He also starred as Caliban in the film Logan. Merchant co-created, as well as wrote, directed episodes for the comedy/thriller series The Outlaws on Prime Video. He stars in the show as part of an ensemble that includes Christopher Walken. Season two of The Outlaws drops Aug. 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boyd Holbrook is an accomplished actor who's starred in films like Logan, Milk, Gone Girl and The Predator. He played DEA agent Steve Murphy in the Netflix series Narcos and will be in the upcoming series Sandman based on the Neil Gaiman comic book. His latest project is the new film Vengeance written and directed by B. J. Novak (The Office). Vengeance is out in theaters now and The Sandman drops on Netflix August 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Cameron Monaghan grew up before our eyes on Showtime’s Shameless, which tried to humanize the plight of a poor American family on Chicago’s South side. Now he stars in the crime thriller Paradise Highway as a young FBI agent trying to stop human trafficking of young girls in the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jared Stern is a writer, director and producer. He created the Netflix animated series Green Eggs and Ham, co-wrote The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie as well as wrote and directed the film Happy Anniversary. Jared's latest project is the animated film DC League of Super-Pets which he wrote, produced and directed. The film features the voice work of John Krasinski, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Kate McKinnon, Diego Luna, and Keanu Reeves. DC League of Super-Pets is in theaters starting July 29. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicco Annan is an actor, dancer and choreographer. He plays Uncle Clifford in the hit Starz series P-Valley. The show is written and created by Pulitzer Prize Winner Katori Hall and takes place in a fictional Mississippi strip club called the Pynk. The Hollywood Reporter named Nicco's portrayal as Uncle Clifford as one of the Best TV Performances of 2020. You can watch the first two seasons of P-Valley on Starz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phoebe Robinson a multi-talented stand-up comedian, New York Times best-selling writer, and actress. You also know her from the Two Dope Queens podcast and her solo podcast Sooo Many White Guys. Phoebe's latest project is the new Freeform show Everything's Trash based on her book Everything's Trash, But It's Okay. She not only stars in the show but co-wrote and co-produced it. New episodes of Everything's Trash air Wednesday nights starting July 13 on Freeform TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angela Sarafyan is probably best known for playing the host Clementine Pennyfeather on the HBO series Westworld. She has appeared in a number of shows including American Horror Story, Blue Bloods and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Angela has also starred in films like The Immigrant, A Beautiful Life and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.Sarafyan returns to Westworld for a fourth season which airs Sunday nights on HBO and HBO Max.This interview was recorded Aug. 4, 2021 after her comedy/horror film King Knight premiered at Canada’s Fantasia Fest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Asher Perlman is a performer, a comic, a cartoonist for The New Yorker and an Emmy Award-nominated writer for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He is an alumnus of The Second City, and a performer with The Improvised Shakespeare Company. For more of his work visit Asher's website.  Drawing we discuss: Jukebox cartoon Chicago cartoon His first cartoon published in The New Yorker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack McBrayer is a comic and two-time Emmy Nominated actor who you know best as Kenneth the page from the series 30 Rock. He's been in numerous films and shows like Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Wreck-It Ralph, Phineas and Ferb and Wander Over Wonder. Jack's latest project is the Apple TV Plus series Hello Jack! The Kindness Show. It's aimed at preschoolers and takes place in Clover Grove where Jack plays Jack, one of the town's most thoughtful and caring residents. He greets everyone with kindness and humor and his mission is to spread compassion and creativity and inspire others to do the same. You can watch Hello Jack! The Kindness Show on Apple TV Plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leslie Bibb is an accomplished film and television actor. You know her best from films like Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as well as from series like What if…?, ER, The League and, most recently, Jupiter's Legacy. Her latest role is as Satan in the new Netflix series God's Favorite Idiot. The show was created by Ben Falcone and stars him and his wife Melissa McCarthy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Goldblum doesn’t need an introduction. But if you have never heard of him, just know that he’s an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated actor, jazz musician, movie star and host of the National Geographic show The World According to Jeff Goldblum which streams on Disney Plus. This week, Goldblum returns to one of his most iconic roles, Dr. Ian Malcolm, in the film Jurassic World Dominion.This interview was recorded Nov. 10, 2021 ahead of the season two premiere of The World According to Jeff Goldblum. Read: CNET's story on Goldblum's Disney Plus series The World According to Jeff Goldblum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marianna Burelli is an accomplished Latin American actor who is making her US debut in the new Disney Plus series Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion. The comedy follows an everyday Mexican American teenager who is chosen by a magical luchador mask that transforms her into Ultra Violet, a superhero fighting crime. She eventually teams up with the Black Scorpion. Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion premieres June 3 on the Disney Channel and Disney Plus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam Jay is a stand-up comic and Emmy-nominated writer. You might know her best from her 2020 Netflix special Three in the Morning or for her work as a writer on Saturday Night Live. She stars in the Peacock series Bust Down which she co-created. And Sam is the writer, co-creator and host of Pause with Sam Jay on HBO and HBO Max. The show follows her as she explores a variety of topics and divisive cultural issues through a series of chats with her friends as well as sketches and interviews. Pause with Sam Jay is one of the most original series in a long time. There isn't any other show like this on TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shaun Toub wasn’t sure he wanted to star in an Israeli production when he was pitched the script for Tehran, a spy thriller about the machinations between Israel and his home country of Iran. But the character of Faraz Kamali, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer intent on catching an Israeli computer hacker and Mossad agent named Tamar, was too good to pass on. The fact we’re never sure who the good guys and bad guys are has made the Apple TV Plus series a hit in both countries, he said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and daytime talk show host gets ready to host the 500th episode of the Tamron Hall Show on ABC, she shares her thoughts on the many powerful and productive conversations she says have made the show popular with viewers. The third season, now airing, has just been nominated for four daytime Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is back for a 13th season. Joel Hodgson, who created MST3K, and Emily Marsh join Jonah Ray and robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot to watch bad movies and make wisecracks. The venerable show first premiered in 1988 and has won a Peabody Award winning and been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards. You can watch new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 starting May 6 at the website mst3k.com or by accessing the Gizmoplex app on iOS, Android and on platforms like Apple TV, Roku and Amazon FireTV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Giovanni Ribisi is an Emmy Award-nominated actor who has been in numerous films like Avatar, Lost in Translation, Saving Private Ryan and Gone in 60 Seconds. He's also been in shows like Sneaky Pete, Friends, My Name Is Earl and On The Verge. His latest project is playing the real life mob boss Joe Colombo in the Paramount Plus series The Offer. The show takes place in the 70s and details the extreme efforts producer Al Ruddy went through to get the film "The Godfather" made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natasha Leggero is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian. She's been in shows like Another Period, Burning Love, Key and Peele, Broke and Modern Family. She has four stand up specials including Coke Money and The Honeymoon Stand-up Special which became the basis for her podcast the Endless Honeymoon which she hosts along with her husband and fellow comic Moshe Kasher. Her newest show is Rat in the Kitchen on TBS which she co-hosts alongside Chef Ludo Lefebvre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After nearly three decades working as a model and actor in movies and TV shows including The Jamie Foxx Show and NYPD Blue, Garcelle Beauvais signed up as the first Black cast member in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2020. She hopes the reality TV inspires women to see that life, and their career, doesn’t end when you reach a certain age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Burns notes we’re living in complicated times, punctuated by misinformation, racial inequities, the climate crisis and threats to our democracy. Which is why it’s worth revisiting the story of Benjamin Franklin, the man who showed the world what it means to be an “American.” In his new PBS documentary, Burns also shows us why Franklin, over 250 years ago, did social media right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Dastmalchian is an actor who may know best from films like The Suicide Squad, Dune, Ant-Man, Blade Runner 2049, The Dark Knight as well as shows like MacGyver, Twin Peaks and The Flash. David is also a comic book writer and wrote the 2019 series Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter for Dark Horse Comics. In March, he released a second volume of four issues aptly titled Count Crowley Amateur Midnight Monster Hunter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bomani Jones is an Emmy Award-winning sports journalist who hosts the long-running ESPN radio show/podcast The Right Time with Bomani Jones. His latest project is the new HBO series Game Theory with Bomani Jones where each week he breaks down the world of sports through a mix of topical news, in-depth analysis, interviews with special guests and field pieces. The show airs Sunday nights on HBO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Hodgman is the host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, the co-creator with David Rees of Dicktown on FX/Hulu, the author of books like Vacationland and Medallion Status. He is best known for his time as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his portrayal of PC in Apple's iconic Mac and PC ad campaign. New episodes of Dicktown air on Thursday nights on FXX and all available episodes can also be streamed on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Cho is an award-winning playwright, producer and screenwriter who co-wrote Pixar's new film Turning Red. The movie follows Mei Lee, a confident, dorky eighth grader torn between being the perfect daughter to her mom and the chaos of adolescence. To complicate things more, whenever Mei gets too excited, she turns into a giant red panda! Turning Red debuts exclusively on Disney Plus on Friday March 11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fans of the popular TV series 7th Heaven may remember watching Barry Watson grow up as oldest son Matt Camden. In a new action series on The CW, Watson gets to play the adoptive dad to a superpowered teenage girl who finds out she’s not from Earth. The twist: Watson is also a military man who’s been assigned to help the US investigate extraterrestrial threats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harold Perrineau is a prolific actor. He's been in shows like Oz, Lost and Sons of Anarchy as well as films like Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Smoke, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luherman, the Best Man and Zero Dark Thirty. His latest project is the Epix series From where he plays a sheriff of a mysterious small town that traps all those who enter. The unwilling residents search for a way out while trying to survive the terrifying creatures that come out at night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Michelle Bathé has had an amazing career playing strong women in TV shows including “First Wives Club,” “This is Us” and Amazon Prime Video’s film, Sylvie’s Love. Up next is NBC’s The Endgame, in which she stars as Val Turner, a very ethical FBI agent with a complicated backstory. Her job: to get inside the head of a brilliant international arms dealer, played by the smooth talking Morena Baccarin. The high-stakes thriller airs Feb. 21 on NBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award-winning chefs Kristen Kish, Jeremy Ford and Justin Sutherland, who you might know best from shows like Top Chef and Iron Chef, are back for a second season of Fast Foodies on TruTV. In every episode, the chefs recreate a celebrity's favorite fast food item and then make their own "remix" version of it. This season, the celebrity guests include: Joel McHale, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Reggie Watts, Nikki Glaser, Adam Pally, Natasha Leggero and Jillian Bell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director and screenwriter Roland Emmerich earned the nickname ‘master of disaster’ for bringing us notable sci-fi epics including Stargate and Independence Day. But he says his focus is really on ordinary people asked to do extraordinary things. In his newest movie, Moonfall, two Nasa astronauts and a conspiracy theorist have to save humanity after something knocks the moon out of orbit. Yep, that’s pretty extraordinary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrien Brody is an accomplished actor. He's been in films like The Thin Red Line, Midnight in Paris, The Darjeeling Limited, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch. He's also been in shows like Chapelwaite and Succession. Notably, at 29, Brody won an Oscar for his performance in the film The Pianist. His latest film is Clean which he co-wrote, produced and composed the music for. He plays a tormented garbage man called Clean who tries to live a quiet life of redemption. When Clean becomes the target of a local crime boss, he must reconcile tensions using the violence of his past. The film debuts on Jan. 28 in theaters and on demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George MacKay has been in such films as Defiance and Captain Fantastic. He played Will Schofield in the Academy Award-winning film, 1917. Starting Jan. 21, George can be seen in the new Netflix film Munich - The Edge of War. The film is a thriller that takes place in the years leading up to World War II and features Jeremy Irons as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. George plays the Prime Minister's secretary and finds himself at odds with a former friend who works for the German government. Both friends become reluctant spies trying to expose a Nazi secret. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chukwudi Iwuji is a Nigerian-British actor who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and won two Olivier Awards. He's been in such shows and series as When They See Us, Designated Survivor, The Underground Railroad and appeared in films like John Wick: Chapter 2. Starting Jan. 13, he can be seen in the new HBO Max series Peacemaker which stars John Cena reprising his role from the 2021 film The Suicide Squad. The series was created by James Gunn who also cast Chukwudi in his upcoming Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Joseph Gordon-Levitt launched HITRECORD a decade ago, the goal was to give people a place to come together and collaborate online on creative projects – everything from poems, to songs to TV shows. Fast forward to 2021 and HITRECORD has found a new way to bring people together online with Class Projects, a subscription-based service where you learn by doing and getting feedback from creative professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prentice Penny is the Executive Producer and showrunner for the HBO series Insecure. He wrote and directed the Netflix film Uncorked. He has worked as a writer and producer on series like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Hustle, and Scrubs. The series finale of Insecure airs on HBO and streams on HBO Max on Dec. 26. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Bullion is perhaps best known for playing Billy Kitchen in the series Peaky Blinders. He's also been in such shows and films as The Bastard Executioner and Dune. Bullion can be seen in season two of The Witcher on Netflix. He plays the role of Lambert opposite Henry Cavill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam McKay is the Academy Award-winning writer and director behind such films as The Big Short, Anchorman, Vice and Step Brothers. Dr. Amy Mainzer is an astronomer, professor and the principal investigator of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE). Adam's new film is Don't Look Up which Amy was the science advisor on. The film follows two astronomers, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, who discover a comet that will destroy the Earth. The cast includes Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Rob Morgan, Cate Blanchet, Tyler Perry, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, among others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Netflix’s first gay holiday romantic comedy, Philemon Chambers says the true star is the way this LGBTQ+ story puts the focus on people just trying to find love and connecting with family. And as a gay Black actor, Chambers is glad to see the entertainment industry and services like Netflix embrace more stories and offer them to a mainstream audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Dae Kim is best known for his roles as Jin-Soo Kwon in Lost, Gavin Park in Angel and Chin Ho Kelly in Hawaii Five-0. He's been in a number of films and series including Raya and the Last Dragon, Hellboy, Avatar: The Last Airbender, 24 and The Good Doctor. He currently stars in the National Geographic show: The Hot Zone: Anthrax which follows the 2001 anthrax scare that took place just after 9/11 attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Pally is best known for starring as Max Blum in the series Happy Endings and as Dr. Peter Prentice in The Mindy Project. He also starred in Making History, Kroll Show, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Crossing Swords and The Mandalorian as well as films like Iron Man 3, Dirty Grandpa and Sonic the Hedgehog. He reunited with Happy Endings creator David Caspe for the show Champaign ILL. He stars alongside Sam Richardson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Goldblum doesn't need an introduction. But if you have never heard of him, just know that he's an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated actor, jazz musician, movie star and host of the National Geographic show The World According to Jeff Goldblum which streams on Disney Plus. In each episode, Jeff explores a topic or subject that he wants to learn more about like magic or monsters or dogs. If you're a fan of Jeff Goldblum, you already know he is a certain kind of wonderful, which is on full-display here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From his turn as bad-boy billionaire investor Russ Hanneman in HBO’s Silicon Valley to lending his voice to Mickey Mouse for Disney, Chris Diamantopoulos knows how to bring characters to life. This month, he stars as two very different kinds of bad guys for Netflix’s Red Notice, an action comedy starring Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson, and in True Story, a crime drama series with Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edgar Wright is the writer and director behind films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The Sparks Brothers. Krysty Wilson-Cairns is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who co-wrote the Sam Mendes' film 1917. Wright and Wilson-Cairns co-wrote the screenplay for Edgar's newest film Last Night in Soho which stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith and Thomasin McKenzie. Last Night in Soho is currently out in theaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In addition to stand-up comedy, producing and acting, Roy is a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy and NAACP Award-winning The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Roy also hosts two podcasts: Beyond The Scenes, the all-new original podcast from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Roy’s Job Fair. Recent acting credits include roles in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, AMC’s Better Call Saul, and The Last O.G. on TBS. Filmed on October 16th at the Gothic Theater in Denver, Colorado, Roy Wood Jr.: Imperfect Messenger is Roy’s third hour-long special for Comedy Central. His previous specials for are Roy Wood Jr.: No One Loves You and Roy Wood Jr.: Father Figure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Last Man is based would have big expectations. But she also knew the 20-year-old story, about a mysterious event that kills everyone with a Y chromosome, needed updating. The mystery centers around a cisgender man, a capuchin monkey and a world run by women, including trans and non-binary survivors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Emily Hampshire has been in a number of films and TV shows including Boy Meets Girl and 12 Monkeys. She is best known for playing Stevie on the Emmy Award-winning series, Schitt's Creek. Currently Hampshire can be seen along with Adrien Brody in the Epix series Chapelwaite. The show is based on the Stephen King short story "Jerusalem's Lot" and takes place in the 1850s. It follows Captain Charles Boone, played by Brody, who after the death of his wife at sea, relocates with his children to the manor he grew up in located in Maine. He hires Rebecca Morgan, an aspiring writer played by Hampshire, to help him with the children. But there is more to the house than meets the eye. Fun fact: the character of Rebecca was not in the original short story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Soman Chainani finished the final book in his children’s series The School of Good and Evil in 2020 and was going to take the year off and go on new adventures. Instead, Covid-19 lockdowns kept him inside. So he decided to rewrite classic fairy tales and give them a modern, un-Disney like twist. The result is Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alfre Woodard is an award-winning actor and producer who has performed in numerous films, TV shows and plays. She won four Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award and two Grammy Awards. She has been in shows like Desperate Housewives, St. Elsewhere and True Blood and films like 12 Years a Slave and the remake of The Lion King. You can now see her on the Apple TV Plus show See. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Siddiq Saunderson plays Dennis Coles aka Ghostface Killah on the Hulu series Wu-Tang: An American Saga. The show is based on the true story of the Wu-Tang Clan. It’s set in early ’90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic and follows the Clan’s formation. Saunderson is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. He’s also been on the series Messiah and played a version of Mercutio in the film R#J. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BD Wong first got his break playing Song Liling in the Broadway musical M. Butterfly. He won a Tony Award for his performance. Over his career, Wong starred in films including the Jurassic Park series, Father of the Bride films and Mulan. He's performed in numerous TV shows including Law and Order: SVU, Oz and Gotham. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his performance as Whiterose on the series Mr. Robot. Wong can currently be seen in the second season of Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens as Wally, Awkwafina's father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Connie and Patrick on a very special episode of I'm So Obsessed as they celebrate the 2021 Emmy Awards. Over the past year and a half, they talked with a number of actors and artists who are either nominated for an Emmy, or have worked on shows nominated for one. This episode is a compilation of some of those conversations. Sit back, grab some popcorn and pregame for the Emmy Awards ISO-style. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dallas Liu stars as Shuji in the Hulu series PEN15. The show is nominated for three Emmy Awards including Outstanding Comedy series. Liu can also be seen in the new Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. And Netflix just announced that he will be in the upcoming live-action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amber Nash is an actress and improv comic best known for her role as the former HR director Pam Poovey in the animated series Archer. Over 12 seasons, Pam has become a celebrated role model to many for her unapologetic nature and behaviors. Nash worked on the series Frisky Dingo and is a regular performer at Dad's Garage Theater in Atlanta. She will be starring in and producing the upcoming film How To Ruin The Holidays. Nash is on the board of directors of Project Chimps, a sanctuary for former research chimpanzees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kwame Patterson is best known for playing Monk on the series The Wire. The show changed his life and career. Since then, he's been in films like The Outpost and Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. He's also been in the shows The Oath, Ray Donovan, Snowfall and Lethal Weapon. He current stars as the adult version of David in season 2 of the OWN series David Makes Man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angela Sarafyan is probably best known for playing the host Clementine Pennyfeather on the HBO series Westworld. She has appeared in a number of shows including American Horror Story, Blood Bloods and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Angela has also starred in films like The Immigrant, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2. Her latest project is the comedy horror film King Knight. She plays the role of Willow, a witch who is also an RN. The film premiered in August at Canada's Fantasia Fest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're a fan of comic books or TV shows and films based off of them, then David Dastmalchian is definitely a familiar face. He has appeared in films like The Dark Knight, Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Blade Runner 2049 and Bird Box. David has been in shows like MacGyver, Twin Peaks and The Flash. He will be in the upcoming Disney Plus show What If…? and the film Dune. Starting Aug. 6, you can see him as Polka-Dot Man in the James Gunn film The Suicide Squad. David also wrote the Dark Horse Comic series Count Crowley. Audio clips used in the episode are from The Suicide Squad trailer which is distributed by Warner Brothers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Michele fought early on for the chance to be more than a pretty face on screen and play serious ‘cops, docs and lawyers’ in gritty and serious TV dramas including Homicide: Life on the Streets, ER and Law and Order. Now as Dominique Deverauex on The CW’s reboot of Dynasty, Michele says she can be outlandish, have fun and be over-the-top in a role that Diahann Carroll envisioned as the “first black bitch on television.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lyndsy Fonseca was still a teenager when she got her start on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Since then she's been in shows such as Big Love, Desperate Housewives, Agent Carter and How I Met Your Mother. She was in films like Kick Ass and Hot Tub Time Machine. Fonseca's latest role is as Laura Turner on the new Disney + series Turner & Hooch. I'm So Obsessed is nominated for two Podcast Awards in categories for TV & Film and People's Choice. You can vote for us on the Podcast Awards website between now and the end of July. https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Colter is best known for his starring title role as the black superhero Luke Cage in the Netflix series Marvel's Luke Cage. He can currently be seen as David Acosta, a priest-in-training who investigates miracles and demons on the Paramount Plus series Evil. Colter has been on a number of TV shows including The Good Fight, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, The Good Wife, Ringer, American Horror Story, and The Following. He's appeared in numerous films including Million Dollar Baby, Breakthrough, Before You Know It, Girls Trip, Zero Dark Thirty and Skin. I'm So Obsessed is nominated for two Podcast Awards in categories for TV & Film and People's Choice. You can vote for us on the Podcast Awards website between now and the end of July. https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over four seasons, O-T Fagbenle played the role of Luke on the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale. His latest project is the Marvel film Black Widow in which he plays the character Rick Mason who is to Natasha Romanoff what Q is to James Bond, roughly speaking. Fagbenle is portraying Barack Obama opposite Viola Davis as Michelle Obama in the upcoming Showtime series The First Lady due out later this year. He has also been in numerous TV shows including Doctor Who, Looking, EastEnders and Maxxx which he also wrote, directed, produced and wrote a song that was used. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lyne Renée plays General Sarah Adler in the new season of the FreeForm TV series, Motherland: Fort Salem. The show takes place in an alternate reality where the word is dominated by women and witches are recruited for the military to battle against terrorism. Renée is the daughter of a painter and was born and raised in Belgium. She has appeared in such films and shows as Wrath of Man, The Meyerowitz Stories, Madam Secretary, Here Lies and Love At First Kill. She plays Helena Bergman in the upcoming HBO Max reboot of Gossip Girl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harvey Guillén is an actor best known for his role as Guillermo on the FX show What We Do In The Shadows. He's also been on shows like The Thundermans, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Room 104 and The Magicians. His new film is Werewolves Within, a comedy/horror movie based on the Ubisoft video game. Guillén plays Joaquim, a small town yoga instructor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hannah Berner is best known for her time on the Bravo TV series Summer House. After three seasons on the show she left the world of reality TV to do a stand-up tour across the US aptly named House Broken. Hannah is also a former professional tennis play and host of two podcasts: Berning In Hell and Giggly Squad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Jimmy Wong lends his voice to Din, a young college student with one wish -- to reunite with a long-lost childhood friend. Fortunately, he meets a Wish Dragon ready to grant him three wishes, in the Sony Pictures Animation story coming to Netflix. But wishes are never easy things, especially when you’ve got an impatient dragon who doesn’t understand why anyone would rather reconnect with a friend than ask for the usual riches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Malcolm-Jamal Warner is probably best known for playing Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show. His performance led to an Emmy Award nomination when he was just 16 years-old. Warner is also an accomplished poet, musician, Grammy Award-winner and star of the Fox show The Resident which just concluded its fourth season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mayim Bialik might be best known for the roles she’s played on TV, including as a nerdy scientist in The Big Bang Theory and the star of Blossom. But the working mother of two also has a doctorate in neuroscience and she’s on a mission: to raise awareness about mental health. In a new podcast, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, she and her guests talk openly about stress, uncertainty, fear, isolation and other emotions that affect our wellness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For over a decade, Meredith Koop has worked as a stylist to one of the most famous and noteworthy women in the world, Michelle Obama. The former first lady recognized early on, for better or worse, women are judged by what they wear. So the duo decided to turn fashion into a tool rather than be a victim of it. Part of their success came from embracing a diverse "symphony" of young, forward-thinking, independent designers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Ashley Smith is the head writer and co-executive producer on the HBO series A Black Lady Sketch show. She is the first black woman to be the head writer of a sketch television show. A Black Lady Sketch Show received three Emmy Award nominations and the second season is currently airing on HBO and HBO Max. Previously, Smith was the head writer of the late night show The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET. Other writing and producing credits include Best Week Ever, Fashion Queens and Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly currently star as Amalia True and Penance Adair respectively on the new HBO Max series The Nevers. Amalia is a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance a brilliant young inventor. Both have been "touched" during a mysterious event in Victorian England that has left them and others with abilities.  Before The Nevers, Donnelly was best known for her role as Jenny Fraser on the series Outlander. She has a notable career on stage earning a Best Actress Olivier Award in 2018 for her performance as Caitlin Carney in the play The Ferryman. Skelly has been in a handful of films and TV shows and in 2018 was nominated for a Best Actress Irish Film and Television award for her performance in the film Kissing Candice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If there is one movie that we're obsessed with recently, it's the arm wrestling comedy Golden Arm. It follows a baker named Mel, who is played by Mary Holland (Happiest Season), as she enters the world of competitive arm wrestling. The film is as sweet as it is funny. And it has everything from arm wrestling training montages to appearances by comics like Ron Funches. Holland and the film's director Maureen Bharoocha (SXSW 2020 Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Visionary directing Award nominee) joined us on I'm So Obsessed to discuss Golden Arm which comes out on April 30 in theaters and on digital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sherry Cola is that rare gem of an artist who can be both funny and moving. Her talent comes with many hyphenates like actor, comic and stand-up. For three seasons she has starred as Alice on the Freeform series Good Trouble. She's also been in the shows like I Love Dick, Claws and SafeWord. She created the character Lil' Tasty and was featured in a series of viral and humorous videos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite its convenience, comfort and affordability, fast food tends to have a bad reputation. But three chefs are out to change that by celebrating the best fast food items out there. On the TruTV show Fast Foodies award-winning chefs Kristen Kish, Jeremy Ford and Justin Sutherland, who you might know best from shows like Top Chef and Iron Chef, recreate a celebrity's favorite fast food item and then make their own "remix" version of it. The season one finale of Fast Foodies airs Thursday on TruTV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For seven seasons Taryn Manning starred as Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett in the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black. She has also been in dozens of films and TV shows like Hustle & Flow, Sons of Anarchy and Hawaii Five-0. She can currently be seen along with Bruce Dern and Jeremy Piven in the film Last Call. And she will play the title character in the upcoming film Karen based off the meme that rose out of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Taryn is also an accomplished singer having performed in the early-2000s with her brother Kellin in the band Boomkat and as a solo singer since 2009. Her last single was Time Wasted released in August 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Demián Bichir takes on the role of a tech billionaire who thinks he knows best how to handle the world's biggest problems -- and in Godzilla vs. Kong, that problem is the clash of these titans. His role as Apex CEO Walter Simmons contrasts with two other parts he's played in the past year: an astronaut returning to a devastated Earth in George Clooney's "The Midnight Sky" on Netflix and a mountain man teaching Robin Wright how to survive in "Land." All three films, Bichir says, are about realizing "that we're all in this together." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Americans is widely considered one of the best TV series of all time. Alison Wright played Martha Hanson on the show and had without a doubt one of the most unpredictable character arcs on the series. In 2017, she even earned an Emmy Award nomination for her performance. She's also been on the series Sneaky Pete and the film Confirmation. Currently, Alison plays Ruth Wardell on the dystopian post-apocalyptic TNT series Snowpiercer. The show is in its second season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eddie Huang wrote the best-selling memoir Fresh Off The Boat which was later adapted in a sitcom for ABC that ran six seasons. He is a chef and owner of the restaurant BaoHaus in New York which had to close its doors in October because of the pandemic. Huang also hosted TV shows, designed clothes and can now add filmmaker to his long list of accomplishments. His debut feature film is Boogie is a coming of age story about pursuing the American Dream and accepting your identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emile Hirsch is an actor best known for roles in films like Speed Racer, Milk and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. His most beloved character is Chris McCandless in the film Into The Wild directed by Sean Penn. Emile can currently be seen in the horror movie/thriller Son about a mother trying to protect her son from being kidnapped by a cult. This film is as smart and thrilling as it is unsettling. Emile is also a singer/songwriter and we discuss his 2019 album Mnemonic and the mysterious Frenchman who is his collaborator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ed Burns was born out of the low-budget indie film movement in the 90s. Famously he wrote, directed, produced and starred in his first feature The Brothers McMullen. The film launched his career as an actor leading to roles in Saving Private Ryan, The Holiday, 27 Dresses, Man on the Ledge among many others. Burns wrote, directed, produced and stars in the new Epix series Bridge and Tunnel which follows a group of Long Island college grads chasing their dreams in the 80s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Serj Tankian is the lead singer for the band System Of A Down. Their music is a mix of punk, metal and Armenian folk music. In 2006, SOAD won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance of their song B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs). The new film Truth To Power follows Serj and System Of A Down from their formation, their fight for social justice for Armenians and how they developed their unique sound. Outside of SOAD, Serj is an accomplished artist, composer and activist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Netflix series Firefly Lane is based off the novel by Kristin Hannah. It's stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Clarke and follows their friendship from their teens until mid-life. The series also features Brandon Jay McLaren and Jenna Rosenow. You might know Brandon from the show PowerRangers S.P.D. He also stars in the upcoming Disney Plus remake of Turner and Hooch. And Jenna is best known for playing Amber Turner on the long-running Australian drama Neighbours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Skyler Astin is an actor and singer best known for playing Jesse Swanson in Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2. He was in films like Hamlet 2 and Wreck-It Ralph and shows like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Glee and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Astin got his start onstage as part of the original Off-Broadway and Broadway cast of Spring Awakening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mikael Håfström is the writer and director behind such movies as Escape Plan, The Rite and Derailed. In 2004, his film Evil which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language film. Håfström directed the new Netflix film Outside The Wire that stars Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris. The film is set in the near future. A drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phil Rosenthal describes himself as the luckiest man in the world. And if you have watched the Netflix travel and food show Somebody Feed Phil you know why. In each episode, Rosenthal travels to a different city around the world to experience the people, the sights and the food. Before he had his own travel show, Rosenthal was a writer for the show Coach and created, produced and wrote the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Griffin Matthews is an actor, activist and raises chickens. You might remember him playing the role of D'Unte in the third season of the Netflix series Dear White People. He's also been on the series Ballers and Law and Order: SVU. More recently, Matthews can be found stealing scenes (in the best way possible) on the HBO Max series The Flight Attendant. He also co-wrote the documentary musical, Witness Uganda which is based off the true story of Matthews' humanitarian trips to Uganda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The late-iconic American musician and composer Frank Zappa has a continued place in pop culture and politics. In the documentary Zappa, director Alex Winter explores the man and his life with never-before-seen footage from Zappa's personal vault. Winter along with Zappa's son Ahmet Zappa discuss the film, Frank Zappa and his relevance in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You likely know Tiffany Boone best for playing Roxy Jones on the Amazon series Hunters — you know, the one that also stars Al Pacino. In 2020, she starred as Maya in the George Clooney film The Midnight Sky on Netflix and she played a younger version of Kerry Washington’s character on the Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere. She has also been on the shows The Chi, The Following and Grey's Anatomy among others. We recorded this interview in October, when Tiffany was filming the Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy series Nine Perfect Strangers in Australia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The new Netflix show Selena: The Series follows the rise to fame and tragic life of the iconic performer Selena Quintanilla known as the Queen of Tejano music. In the series, Noemi Gonzalez plays Selena's sister and drummer Suzette. Before this show, Noemi appeared in the Hulu series East Los High, Rosewood on Fox, Dark/Web and The Kicks on Amazon. She has also been on the show The Young and the Restless as well as in the films Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones and The Tax Collector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Oyelowo, perhaps best known for his role as Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, knows it's a tricky time to bring out a sci-fi drama that deals with the end of the world as we know it. But The Midnight Sky, directed by George Clooney and arriving on Netflix this December, isn't just a story about goodbyes, he says. It's about people, love, beginnings and -- in the age of COVID-19 -- a reminder of just how fragile our world is. He's also happy to share why he loves the gamesmanship of mixed martial arts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2018, actress Kelly Jenrette was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance as Annie on the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale. The nomination shined a bright spotlight on her work and talent. Before her Emmy nom, Kelly worked on shows like Fuller House and Grandfathered. But in 2020, she starred in two films and a new TV series. She played Brenda in the film Uncorked, Delanda in All Day and a Night opposite Jeffery Wright and Stacy Knox in the CBS series Manhunt: Deadly Games. Not only are those three projects currently on Netflix, but Manhunt: Deadly Games is currently one of the top 10 series on the streaming service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For most of us, 2020 has been a garbage year. But for actress AnnaSophia Robb it has been huge with roles in the Hulu mini-series Little Fires Everywhere (playing a younger version of Reese Witherspoon), in the film Words on Bathroom Walls, and in the series The Expecting on the now defunct video service Quibi. In her youth, she had a very successful career in films like Because of Winn-Dixie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Bridge To Terabithia. She even starred on the CW series The Carrie Diaries as a young Carrie Bradshaw based on the character Sarah Jessica Parker made famous on the series Sex and the City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most iconic examples of athletes using their visibility to protest political and social issues took place at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. After placing first and third respectively in the 200-meter event, runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists atop the medal stand as the Star Spangled banner played. The act was meant to bring attention to human rights. 52 years later Dr. John Carlos, billed as the world's fastest humanitarian, is featured in the new documentary film Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story which covers the years Muhammed Ali was banned from boxing and what it took legally, socially and politically for him to make his comeback. Carlos cites Ali as a friend and peer who would tour schools in the US talking about activism and the importance of fighting for human rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ecologist Carl Safina has made it his life's work to study how humans are changing the world -- and how those changes are affecting non-humans and the planet. In his latest book, Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace, the acclaimed researcher and author examines the lives of sperm whales, chimpanzees and macaws. When we humans aren't getting in their way -- and invading their space -- the way animals live isn't so very different from how we do. It's a realization that may help enable us to save species from extinction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Feig is an actor, producer and filmmaker best known for making the films Bridesmaids, Spy and Ghostbusters. He created the series Freaks and Geeks for which he was nominated for two Emmy Awards as a writer. Paul also directed episodes for shows like The Office (for which he was nominated for another two Emmy Awards) as well as Arrested Development, Weeds, 30 Rock, Mad Men, Nurse Jackie, among others. Paul is an avid gin aficionado and even has his own gin: Artingstall's Brilliant London Dry Gin. He is also the charming and dapper host of Quarantine Cocktail Time on his Instagram account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices