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Season 2

2016 · 14 episodes

Episodes

1Drama ActressesSix of the year's most sought after drama actresses engage in a candid conversation about sex scenes and nudity as they get older. Sarah Paulson, Julianna Margulies, Kerry Washington, Constance Zimmer, Kirsten Dunst, Regina King, and Jennifer Lopez discuss the advantages of working with female directors, the new landscape of television, and what their first big splurge was.
2Drama ActorsSix of the television season's most eclectic drama actors – including Rami Malek, Bobby Cannavale, Wagner Moura, Cuba Gooding Jr., Forest Whitaker, and Paul Giamatti reveal the challenges of letting emotionally demanding characters go, the nuances of real versus fictional characters, and the little known movies they wish everyone had seen.
3Comedy ActressesTV's leading funny ladies – Rachel Bloom, Gina Rodriguez, Allison Janney, Niecy Nash, Lily Tomlin, Ilana Glazer – disclose the best advice they ever got, the moment they knew they wanted to become actors and their funniest fan interactions.
4Comedy ActorsComedy masters, Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent), Aziz Ansari (Master of None), Anthony Anderson (Black-ish), Tony Hale (Veep), Jerrod Carmichael (The Carmichael Show), Rob Lowe (The Grinder), Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele), divulge their most embarrassing moments, who inspires them and the challenges of taking a comedic look at serious topics.
5Drama ShowrunnersSix of television's top drama series bosses- Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot), Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), Nina Jacobson (American Crime Story), Marti Noxon (UnREAL, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce), Melissa Rosenberg (Jessica Jones) and John Ridley (American Crime)- open up about the stories that made them genuinely nervous, diversity in Hollywood and what it takes to cast their shows.
6Comedy ShowrunnersComedy TV writer-producers including Kenya Barris (Black-ish), Marta Kauffman (Grace and Frankie), Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Alan Yang (Master of None), Nahnatchka Khan (Fresh Off the Boat) and David Mandel (Veep) talk condoms, stunt guests and what they have (and haven't) been able to get away with showing and talking about on the small screen.
7Reality ShowrunnersTV’s top reality talent - Mark Cuban (Shark Tank), Jane Lynch (Hollywood Game Night), Guy Fieri (Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives), Nick Cannon (America’s Got Talent), Mike Darnell (500 Questions) and LL Cool J (Lip Sync Battle) - discuss on-set psychologists, coaxing contestants and America’s first reality star presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
8DirectorsThe directors of this year's most acclaimed films, Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Mira Nair (Queen of Katwe), Oliver Stone (Snowden), Denzel Washington (Fences), talk about the filmmaking process.
9ActorsCasey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water), Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Snowden) and Dev Patel (Lion) discuss how they go about researching roles, being typecast and what it's like working with celebrated directors.
10Actresses2017 Oscars Actress Roundtable with Emma Stone ('La La Land'), Taraji P. Henson ('Hidden Figures'), Annette Bening ('20th Century Woman'), Natalie Portman ('Jackie'), Naomie Harris ('Moonlight'), Isabelle Huppert ('Elle'), and Amy Adams ('Arrival' 'Nocturnal Animals')
11ProducersThe Hollywood Reporter's Full Producers 2017 Oscars Roundtable with Matt Damon ('Manchester By The Sea'), Darren Aronofsky ('Jackie'), Frank Marshall ('Sully'), Emma Tillinger Koskoff ('Silence'), Marc Platt ('La La Land'), and Todd Black ('Fences')
12WritersWriters 2017 Oscars Roundtable with Pedro Almodovar ('Julieta'), Allison Schroeder ('Hidden Figures'), Tom Ford ('Nocturnal Animals'), Kenneth Lonergan ('Manchester by the Sea'), Noah Oppenheim ('Jackie'), and Taylor Sheridan ('Hell or High Water')
13Documentary FilmmakersDocumentary Directors 2017 Oscars Roundtable with Werner Herzog ('Into The Inferno' 'Lo and Behold'), Roger Ross Williams ('Life Animated'), Raoul Peck ('I Am Not Your Negro'), Kirsten Johnson ('Cameraperson'), Josh Kriegman ('Weiner'), and Ezra Edelman ('O.J.: Made in America')
14SongwritersSongwriters Tori Amos, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Sting, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams reveal their process and how to emotionally connect songs to movies.