Interviews with the Cast and Crew
I’ve had the great opportunity the interview actors and filmmakers whenever they have done press tours in Minneapolis. Here are they are plus bonus articles that have run in various publications.
2022
- “Studio 666” – Foo Fighters
- “The Green Mile” – David Morse
- “Dog” – Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin
- “Severance” – Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Tramell Tillman, Britt Lower, and Zach Cherry
- “Uncharted” – Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Sophia Ali, Tati Gabrielle
- “The Afterparty” – Jamie Demetrieu, Ilana Glazer
- “The Tragedy of Macbeth” – Denzel Washington, Corey Hawkins, Alex Hassell
- “Cobra Kai” Season 4 – Xolo Maridueña, Mary Mouser
- “Scream” – Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Melissa Barrera, Jack Quaid, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mikey Madison, Marley Shelton, Dylan Minnette, Sonia Ammar
- “The 355” – Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, Sebastian Stan
2021
- “The Tender Bar” – Ben Affleck, Daniel Ranieri, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe
- “The Matrix Resurrections” – Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Priyanka Chopra Jonas
- “Swan Song” – Mahershala Ali, Benjamin Cleary
- “Encounter” – Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Micheal Pearce, Lucian-River Chauhan and Aditya Geddada
- “House of Gucci” – Lady Gaga
- “Being the Ricardos” – Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, JK Simmons, Nina Arianda, Aaron Sorkin
- “Single All the Way” – Philemon Chamber, Michael Urie, Kathy Najimy, Jennifer Coolidge, Jennifer Robertson
- “Licorice Pizza” – Alana Haim
- “King Richard” – Aunjanue Ellis, Demi Singleton, Saniyya Sidney, Tony Goldwyn
- “Belfast” – Kenneth Branagh, Ciaran Hinds, Jude Hill
- “The Shrink Next Door” – Kathryn Hahn, Casey Wilson, Georgia Pritchett
- “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary” – Chris Columbus
- “Last Night in Soho” – Edgar Wright, Anya Taylor-Joy
- “The Harder They Fall” – Zazie Beetz, Jonathan Majors, Jeymes Samuel
- “Finch” – Tom Hanks, Miguel Sapochnik
- “Mass” – Ann Dowd, Reed Birney, Jason Isaacs
- “Dune” – Denis Villeneuve, Stellan Skarsgard, Rebecca Ferguson
- “Halloween Kills” – Jamie Lee Curtis
- “The Addams Family 2” – Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz
- “The Many Saints of Newark” – Michael Gandolfini, Alessandro Nivola, Ray Liotta, Leslie Odom, Jr, Billy Magnussen, Corey Stoll, Michela De Rossi, and director Alan Taylor
- “Midnight Mass” – Hamish Linklater, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel, Annabeth Gish, and Kristin Lehman
- “The Guilty” – Jake Gyllenhaal, Antoine Fuqua
- “The Morning Show” – Billy Crudup, Julianna Margulies, Mark Duplass, Hasan Minaj, Desean Terry, Nestor Carbonell, Mimi Leder
- “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” – Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield
- “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” – Max Harwood
- “Candyman” – Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
- “CODA” – Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant
- “Mr. Corman” Season 1 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- “The Suicide Squad” – James Gunn, Margot Robbie, Daniela Melchoir, Joel Kinnaman, John Cena, Jai Courtney, Nathan Fillion, Flula Borg, Alice Braga, Mayling Ng, Juan Diego Botto, Joaquín Cosio
- “The Last Letter From Your Lover” – Shailene Woodley, Felicity Jones, Jojo Moyes, Callum Turner, Nabhaan Rizwan, Augustine Frizzell
- “Joe Bell” – Connie Britton
- “Old” – M. Night Shyamalan
- “Ted Lasso” Season 2 – Brendan Hunt, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple, Cristo Fernández, Tooheb Jimoh
- “Loki” – Richard E. Grant, Tara Strong
- “Schmigadoon” Season 1 – Cecily Strong, Aaron Tveit, Dove Cameron, Ann Harada, Barry Sonnenfeld, Cinco Paul
- “The Tomorrow War” – Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, Sam Richardson
- “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” – Peter Ostrum, Paris Themmen, Julie Dawn Cole,
- “Good On Paper” – Iliza Schlesinger, Margaret Cho, Ryan Hansen
- “Central Park” – Josh Gad
- “Physical” Season 1- Rose Byrne, Rory Scovel, Annie Weisman
- “In the Heights” – Melissa Barrera, Leslie Grace, Corey Hawkins, Daphne Ruben-Vega, Gregory Diaz, Jimmy Smits, Olga Merediz, Jon M. Chu, Quiara Alegría Hudes
- “Lisey’s Story” – Julianne Moore, Joan Allen, Dane DeHaan, Ron Cephas Jones, J.J. Abrams
- “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” – Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, Michael Chaves
- “The Kominsky Method” Season 3 – Paul Reiser, Sarah Baker
- “Army of the Dead” – Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder
- “Jupiter’s Legacy” – Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Matt Lanter, Mike Wade, Tenika Davis, Andrew Horton, Ian Quinlan, and Elena Kampouris
- “Four Good Days” – Glenn Close, Mila Kunis
- “The Mosquito Coast” – Justin Theroux, Melissa George, Logan Polish, Gabriel Bateman
- “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse” – Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lauren London
- “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” – Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder
- “Yes Day” – Jennifer Garner, Edgar Ramirez, Jenna Ortega, Miguel Arteta, Julian Lerner, Everly Carganilla
- “Da 5 Bloods” – Spike Lee
- “Coming 2 America” – Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Tracy Morgan, Jermaine Fowler, Nomzamo Mbatha, Rotimi, Teyana Taylor, Bella Murphy, Akiley Love
- “Cherry” – Tom Holland
- “Nomadland” – Chloe Zhao
- “Judas and the Black Messiah” – Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr, Ashton Sanders, Dominique Thorne, Algee Smith, Darrell Britt-Gibson
- “Land” – Robin Wright, Demian Bichir
- “Bliss” – Salma Hayek
- “Malcolm & Marie” – John David Washington
- “Firefly Lane” Season 1 – Katherine Heigl, Sarah Chalke
- “Supernova” – Stanley Tucci, Harry Macqueen
- “One Night in Miami” – Leslie Odom Jr, Eli Goree, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Aldis Hodge
- “The Sister” – Russell Tovey, Neil Cross, Amrita Acharia, Kate Harwood
- “Cobra Kai” Season 3 – Mary Mouser, Courtney Henggeler, Xolo Maridueña, Vanessa Rubio
- “Dickinson” Season 2 – Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Hunt, Anna Baryshnikov, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Alena Smith
2020
- “Sylvie’s Love” – Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eugene Ashe, Ryan Michelle Bathe
- “Promising Young Woman” – Carey Mulligan, Emerald Fennell
- “News of the World” – Tom Hanks, Paul Greengrass, Helena Zengel
- “Soul” – Pete Docter
- “Wonder Woman 1984” – Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot
- “Mr. Iglesias” Part 3 – Gabriel Iglesias
- “I’m Your Woman” – Rachel Brosnahan, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Arinze Kene, Julia Hart
- “The Prom” – Jo Ellen Pellman, Ariana DeBose
- “Mank” – Amanda Seyfried
- “SuperIntelligence” – Bobby Cannavle, Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone
- “Uncle Frank” – Judy Greer, Lois Smith, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi
- “The Princess Switch: Switched Again” – Vanessa Hudgens
- “Freaky” – Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton
- “The Witches” – Kristin Chenoweth, Anne Hathaway
- “Tehran” – Daniel Syrkin
- “Clouds” – Neve Campbell, Fin Argus, Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Iseman, Justin Baldoni
- “The Haunting of Bly Manor” – Henry Thomas, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Victoria Pedretti, T’Nia Miller, Amelia Eve, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, and Amelie Bea Smith
- “The War with Grandpa” – Robert De Niro, Oakes Fegley, Laura Marano, Cheech Marin, Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle
- “Then Came You” Press Junket – Kathie Lee Gifford, Craig Ferguson
- “The Glorias” Press Junket – Lorraine Toussaint
- “Kajillionaire” Press Junket – Evan Rachel Wood, Miranda July
- “The Devil All the Time” Press Junket – Antonio Campos
- “Tenet” Press Junket – John David Washington, Elizabeth Debicki
- “Chemical Hearts” Press Junket – Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams, Richard Tanne, Coral Pena, Kara Young
- “Words on Bathroom Walls” Press Junket – Charlie Plummer, Taylor Russell
- “Radioactive” Press Junket – Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Marjane Satrapi
- “Trolls World Tour” Press Junket – Rachel Bloom
- “You Should Have Left” Press Junket – Kevin Bacon
- “7500” Press Junket – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Patrick Vollrath
- “The King of Staten Island” Press Junket – Judd Apatow
- “Birds of Prey” Press Junket – Margot Robbie, Chris Messina, Cathy Yan, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollet-Bell
2019
- “1917” Press Junket – Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman
- “Working Man” Interviews – Talia Shire, Peter Gerety, Robert Jury
- “Jojo Rabbit” Press Junket – Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin Mckenzie
- In Conversation: Anthony Russo from “Avengers: Endgame”
- In Conversation: David Harbour from “Stranger Things 3”
2018
2. “Beautiful Boy” Q&A with Timothee Chalamet and Nic Sheff
2017
1. In Conversation: The Filmmakers Behind “An Inconvenient Sequel”
2. “American Assassin” press junket with Michael Keaton, Dylan O’Brien, Taylor Kitsch, Shiva Negar
3. In Conversation: Nadji Jeter on the Power of “Wonder”
4. In Conversation: Chris Bernardi from Pixar’s “Coco”
5. “Downsizing” Press Junket with Hong Chau
2016
1. In Conversation: Marlon West, Head of Effects Animation on “Moana”
2. Linklater, A Dream Collaborator: A Conversation with the Cast of “Everybody Wants Some!!”
2015
1. A Conversation with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon on “Carol”
Bonus: click HERE for the version that ran in “City Pages”
2. An Interview with Craig Schultz and Steve Martino from “The Peanuts Movie”
3. A Warm Return Home for “No Escape” Filmmakers John Erick and Drew Dowdle
Bonus: click HERE for the version that ran in “City Pages”
2014
1. A Roundtable Interview with Bennett Miller on “Foxcatcher”