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Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I'm chatting with Ji-young Yoo, who has some anticipated performances on the horizon. It’s no wonder Variety named her one of the 10 Actors to Watch for 2023.  Ji-Young stars…

Director Pablo Berger never thought he'd earn his first Oscar nomination for an animated feature, mostly because he never thought he'd direct animation. That is, until one morning, when he was looking through his vast library of books and decided to read Sara Varon's 2007 graphic novel Robot Dreams, the…

Of the five international films shortlisted for the Oscars, The Teachers' Lounge has had the longest legs. Debuting at the 2023 Berlinale — and not even in competition — Ilker Çatak's provocative thriller has been a fixture on the festival circuit ever since. Channeling the dark spirit of Michael Haneke…

Prior to American Fiction, Sterling K. Brown was best known as Randall Pearson in the long-running, award-winning NBC family drama series This is Us. The part that director Cord Jefferson was offering him couldn't have been more different: in Jefferson's adaptation of the satirical novel by Percival…

Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I'm chatting with M88 managing partner and co-founder Phillip Sun, who has a unique outlook and philosophy and uses that forward thinking to propel the firm to the top of the…

By her own admission, America Ferrera was not a Barbie girl growing up. But now, two decades into her career, Ferrera will be forever bathed in the warm pink glow of the Mattel brand thanks to her role in Greta Gerwig's Barbie. Ferrera plays a central role as Gloria, a Mattel employee dealing with an…

Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I'm chatting with Power Book III: Raising Kanan  star, Patina Miller. As a major talent across film, television and musical theater Miller portrays Raquel "Raq" Thomas on the Starz…

The prospect of working with Jessica Chastain under the direction of Michel Franco was enough to pique Peter Sarsgaard's interest in Memory, but what really sealed the deal was how Franco had written his character, Saul. Since Franco rarely defines the character on the page, Sarsgaard was given the…

After spending 30-plus years honing his craft for stage and screen, Colman Domingo is more than ready for his close-up. Considering the actor’s versatile resume, which includes memorable performances in Selma, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fear the Walking Dead, or his Emmy-winning role on Euphoria and a…

After strategically withholding Napoleon from the festival circuit, Ridley Scott went guerilla instead, launching his controversial military epic into cinemas like a carefully-thrown hand grenade. The tactic worked, overriding critical reviews that tore apart its history, its script and even its star…

Charles Melton has had a good year; although saying farewell to Riverdale hit him hard, he went head-to-head with Natasha Lyonne for an episode of Poker Face and earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Todd Haynes' May December. Sandwiched between Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, the U.S.-born…

Jeffrey Wright, star of Cord Jefferson's provocative debut feature American Fiction, says he felt a personal affinity with his character Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison in the film, in part because of the challenges Monk experiences with regard to family issues. Monk is an author and a professor of English…