Emmys
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‘James Brown: Say It Loud’ Grapples With a Big Question: Was He the Most Important Black Man in America?
TheWrap magazine: The four-part docuseries is the latest from “The Legacy of Black Wall Street” director Deborah Riley Draper
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How the ‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Creators Got Their Decidedly Grown-Up Animated Series Off the Ground
TheWrap magazine: “This was a very personal story,” says EP Amber Noizumi. “The only way to tell it was in a new way”
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Why the ‘Franklin’ Hair and Makeup Designer Embraced All That Is ‘Completely Absurd’
TheWrap magazine: For Alessandro Bertolazzi, 18th-century French aristocratic style was the epitome of ridiculousness, so why not embrace it?
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Why It Took David Oyelowo 10 Years to Make ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’
TheWrap Magazine: The actor faced excuse after excuse from reluctant studios until the success of “Yellowstone” helped pave the way for his western
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Why ‘Fargo’ Season 5 Makes a Case for Being Nice
TheWrap magazine: “How do people who want to be nice to their neighbors get their country back from this discourse that is so filled with vitriol?” says writer-producer Noah Hawley
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‘Quiz Lady’ Stars Awkwafina and Sandra Oh Had a Hunch They Could Be Funny Together
TheWrap magazine: “I was like, ‘I don’t care which [part] you play, as long as you’re down! Just pick one!’” Awkwafina says
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Shadows, Classic Movies and Caravaggio: Inside the Lush Cinematography of ‘Ripley’
TheWrap magazine: DP Robert Elswit says director Steven Zaillian wanted to convey the stark sociopathy of Tom Ripley in black and white
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‘The Regime’ Production Designer Was Inspired by Dictators and an Ex-POTUS for the HBO Limited Series
TheWrap magazine: “Mar-a-Lago was one of my references,” Kave Quinn says
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How Aja Naomi King Deepened the Story Told in ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
TheWrap magazine: In the book on which the series is based, King’s character, Harriet, is minor. Not so here. “We are really, consistently going on this journey to explore Harriet’s life,” the actress says
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Hoa Xuande Still Finds It ‘Bewildering’ That He’s the Star of ‘The Sympathizer’
TheWrap magazine: While making the HBO limited series that has catapulted him into the spotlight, the Australian actor would think to himself, “Am I really here? Is this all a dream?”
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How the ‘X-Men 97’ Team Revived — and Updated — a Beloved ’90s Series
“The storytelling needed to be more sophisticated and pay off in bigger ways” for the new animated show to work, EP Brad Winderbaum says
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Ken Burns on ‘The American Buffalo’ and the Tragedy of Mass Eradication
In his latest docuseries, the five-time Emmy winner explores the near-extinction of the buffalo in the context of the Native American experience
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Why Jerrod Carmichael Put Himself Under the Microscope in His Reality Show
TheWrap magazine: “I made this because of personal problems that I had and I like to use whatever tools I have available to solve them,” Carmichael says of his HBO show
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How Shrewd Casting Helped Turn ‘The Traitors’ Into a Massive Hit in Season 2
TheWrap magazine: The cast made entirely of reality TV vets and public figures added a wild-card element that even surprised the producers, who often sat “open-mouthed as this played out,” EP Toni Ireland says
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Maisie Williams Unpacks the ‘All-Consuming’ Job of Playing Catherine Dior in ‘The New Look’
TheWrap magazine: To play Dior, a member of the French Resistance who survived Nazi camps, Williams lost 25 pounds and isolated herself from her cast mates
