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How Daveed Diggs Found Common Ground Between Frederick Douglass and Modern Rappers
TheWrap awards magazine: ‘We have a similar understanding of what it’s like to mine your past for your fame in the present,” Diggs says of his role as abolitionist Douglass in ”The Good Lord Bird“
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How ‘Underground Railroad’ Creator Barry Jenkins Got Permission for That Childish Gambino Needle Drop
TheWrap awards magazine: Jenkins, Thuso Mbedu and William Jackson Harper discuss exploring the reverberations of history for Amazon drama
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‘Solos’ Creator and Director on ‘Power and Potency’ of a Solo Story (Video)
TheWrap Emmy Screening Series: David Weil and Sam Taylor-Johnson break down going on a ”singular journey“ with Helen Mirren and more actors
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Why the Music Doc Series ‘1971’ Wasn’t Just About Music
TheWrap magazine: Director Asif Kapadia says. “It’s not, ‘Listen to this piece of music, and then this one’ — what’s the bigger picture around it?”
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Why ‘City So Real’ Docu-Series Director Steve James Went Back to Chicago to Shoot One More Episode in 2020
TheWrap magazine: ”Television needs to play a role in connecting people more to the world we live in,“ the award-winning filmmaker says
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Directors of ‘Mare of Easttown,’ ‘Oslo’ and Other HBO Titles Talk ‘Fractured’ Filming During Pandemic (Video)
TheWrap Emmy Screening Series: Directors of ”Between the World and Me,“ ”Coastal Elites,“ and HBO Max’s ”It’s a Sin“ also joined
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Bo Burnham Crashes the Emmy Race With Netflix Special ‘Inside’
But his one-man show will be going up against ”Hamilton,“ Beyoncé and the ”Friends“ reunion in a very crowded and competitive category
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Musical Masterminds from ‘Bridgerton,’ ‘Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘The Crown’ and More Debate Challenges of Scoring (Video)
TheWrap Emmy Screening Series: Composers also joined from ”Jupiter’s Legacy,“ ”Amend,“ ”High on the Hog“ and ”David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet“
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How ‘One Day at a Time’ Pulled Off a Fully Animated Final Episode
The animators studied old footage to recreate the actors’ signature moves and add special effects like exploding heads
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‘The Crown’ Star Emma Corrin on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Watching Her Play Princess Diana
TheWrap magazine: ”Personally, I try not to engage with it because I feel like it’s a slippery slope,“ Netflix star says
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Fran Lebowitz Says Good Riddance to Trump: He ‘Never Deserved New York’
TheWrap magazine: ”I wish that when he left, he’d have taken that big pile of junk on Fifth Avenue,“ says the subject of the docuseries ”Pretend It’s A City“
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It’s a Golden Age for New Shows at the Emmys – But Not THE Golden Age
A bumper crop of first-year series could be nominated in top categories, but it’ll be hard to beat the new shows from the early ’70s
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Emmy Season Begins With Clear Favorites – But Are They Safe?
”The Crown,“ ”Ted Lasso“ and ”The Queen’s Gambit“ may be front runners, but the Oscars proved that doesn’t always mean much
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Emmys Reverse Course, Will No Longer Merge Variety Series Categories
Move follows outcry over combining talk- and sketch-based shows
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Issa Rae, Gloria Calderon Kellett Among 6 Appointed to Television Academy’s Executive Committee
Other new appointees include Robert Mills, Dawn Olmstead, Vernon Sanders and Zack Van Amburg
