Little Gold Men is the inside story of Hollywood, from awards shows and red-carpet premieres to the hard work and whisper campaigns that get people there. Weekly episodes feature obsessive, expert conversations about the best of television and film, with special guest appearances from stars, creators, and critics.
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How Jon Hamm Designed Two Modern American Villains: “I Can’t Just Play This Guy as a Buffoon”
The Emmy winner is nominated this year for two very different roles—both of which speak rather presciently to our current political moment.
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How Will the Presidential Election Affect This Year’s Oscar Race?
The outcome of the 2016 election was ever present at the Academy Awards that followed four months later. Could this year be the same?
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How Ripley Changed Dakota Fanning: “If I Can Do That, I Can Do Anything”
After nearly 25 years onscreen, Fanning just received her first Emmy nomination for the Netflix series. She tells Vanity Fair why it represents her next chapter in Hollywood: “People feel like they know me, but then they also don’t.”
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How Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Biopic Could Shape This Year’s Oscar Race
With A Complete Unknown, the Oscar nominee could be back in the race for the first time since his breakout in Call Me by Your Name. But that’s only the beginning of the awards potential for this movie.
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For Lessons in Chemistry, Brie Larson Learned How to Experiment
She couldn’t quite crack brilliant scientist Elizabeth Zott for the Emmy-nominated show until she had her own epiphany.
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Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning Never Saw Martha as a Villain
“She’s so much more than that,” says the newly minted Emmy nominee of her breakout role in the Netflix hit series.
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Viggo Mortensen Speaks His Mind: On Amazon’s “Shameful” Decision, Green Book’s “Disingenuous” Critics, and Indie Film’s Unclear Future
The Oscar nominee, whose acclaimed new film, The Dead Don’t Hurt, has just hit VOD, offers his frank assessment of Hollywood.
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Ready or Not, We’re Predicting the Emmy Nominations
This week on Little Gold Men, the hosts explore why Shōgun, The Bear, and Baby Reindeer are expected to clean up and which shows remain on the bubble.
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Julianne Nicholson’s Life Didn’t Change After Mare of Easttown, and She’s Just Fine With That
Fresh off her Emmy win, the veteran scene-stealer had an offer to star in a glitzy new TV show. She turned it down to make Janet Planet—an indie gem that feels like a career statement.
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Jacob Anderson Loves Doing “Insane” Things on Interview With the Vampire—Including That Wild Finale
“There’s a version of this show that is very stoic and takes itself too seriously, and I don’t think any of us ever wanted to make that show,” says the star of AMC’s hit vampire series. “And thank God!”
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Jodie Comer Knew Her Bikeriders Accent Would Be Polarizing: “She’s Lost Her Mind!”
The Emmy winner tells Vanity Fair why her bold performance in the acclaimed film required taking a big risk.
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Jessica Lange, Living on the Edge: “What Would It Take to Teeter Off That High Wire?”
The Oscar-winning icon speaks about her remarkable spring on screen and stage, and why she feels more liberated as an actor than ever.
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8 Brilliant Underdogs That Most Deserve Emmy Nominations This Year
From the unhinged chaos of the best Real Housewives franchise to the career-best work from industry veterans Zahn McClarnon and Carla Gugino, we implore the Television Academy to keep their eye on this group of contenders.
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Why Bo Burnham Turned Down John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in LA
Mulaney breaks down his fascinating talk show experiment, from his favorite segment to potentially doing a second season in a new city (but only if “everybody was there”).
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Predicting the Big Winners at This Year’s Tony Awards
On this week’s roundtable episode of the Little Gold Men podcast, the panelists discuss Broadway’s biggest night, when a play with music just might outshine all the musicals.
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How Jonathan Bailey Juggled Wicked With Fellow Travelers: “It Was Fame From the Waist Down”
The Bridgerton breakout on his busiest season yet, costarring with Matt Bomer in a groundbreaking queer love story, and the spot where two very different characters intersect: “Tim, if he’d been born 60 years later, may have played Fiyero in the school production of Wicked. And he would have loved the shiny boots.”
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After Nearly 30 Years Onscreen, The Bear’s Liza Colón-Zayas Found Her Breakout
The Bronx-born stage and screen veteran on bonding with Philip Seymour Hoffman, facing years of rejection, and the pandemic-forced turning point that brought her to this moment.
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Will Anything About This Year’s Emmys Surprise Us?
With Shōgun now ruling the drama races, Baby Reindeer has the limited-series field all to itself. But TV’s biggest night may offer up some big twists elsewhere.
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Jonathan Groff Didn’t Want to Spend 7 Years as a “Singing Teenager” on Glee
The Tony nominee and star of Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along takes a walk down memory lane, reminiscing about falling in love with Sondheim, his first days as an actor in New York, and why he turned down a starring role on Ryan Murphy’s musical series.
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William Jackson Harper’s Wild, Wonderful Year on the New York Stage
The Good Place alum has hit a career high in back-to-back plays over the past 12 months—bringing him his first Tony nomination, and an opportunity to reflect on some tougher years in his journey as an actor.