Wendi McLendon-Covey – St. Denis Medical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NkZGmN1Eg&t=5s As a comedy vet, what really jumps out about St. Denis Medical . . . about Justin Spitzer and his team’s writing? The thing I love about the writing on the show is that although these characters are flawed, they are good people. Look around at the people you work with in any…

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Shemar Moore – S.W.A.T.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65TGxrwPL4 When we spoke a year ago — for what was supposedly the “final” season — you hinted maybe there was still some life left in the show. Did you know something? I didn’t have any inside information. It just didn’t make sense to me. We were popular on Netflix [in reruns], Charles Barkley…

March 4, 20250Comments

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Tom Green – Tom Green Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChYdtdCMa7k Do these three Prime projects combine to form a single, cohesive portrait? And why the urge to take a look back now? They do all sort of complement each other. The documentary comes out first, and then the standup special, and then the series — which is about about my life on the…

February 24, 20250Comments

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Noah Centineo – The Recruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czt_Mh_qdsw&t=1s Has Owen learned anything at all from his misadventures in season one? Is he better-equipped this year? Over the course of the first season, he’s just data-collecting. He doesn’t have the footing to take the punches — psychological and physical and emotional. Season two’s really about him gaining traction and punching back —…

February 21, 20250Comments

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Tasya Teles – Shoresy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ODkmHszNc The show enters uncharted territory in season four. Tell us about that. It’s the first one we’ve filmed in summertime — which presents some challenges for the Bulldogs because we’ve seen them only in the wintertime, on the ice, being hockey players. We haven’t seen them in their time off. The challenges that…

February 14, 20250Comments

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Kacey Rohl – Star Trek: Section 31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63k1Otp9qtM This film is very much the Dirty Dozen of Star Trek — which is inherently tricky for a “utopian” franchise . . . Rob [Kazinsky], my castmate, spoke to this so eloquently at New York Comic-Con. Of course, Star Trek fans appreciate the utopia — and the sheer mention of “Section 31” makes…

February 7, 20250Comments

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Christy Carlson Romano – Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQxt5N2IlrQ This series stands out from the reality TV crowd given that you’re only competing against yourself. Everyone could potentially be a “winner.” The show is not a competition — it’s a reason why I was really happy to go on it. So often, we think of reality shows as, “How do we get…

January 27, 20250Comments

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Arielle Kebbel – Rescue: Hi-Surf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Lk1bAt72U Exactly how big of a challenge did filming so much in the water present? It’s like nothing I’ve ever done before. The ocean is the No. 1 diva — you’re always working around her. She changes constantly — the wind changes, the water changes, every beach that you’re filming on changes, so the…

January 21, 20250Comments

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Sam McCarthy – Goosebumps: The Vanishing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NsYcYtDBtc Were you a Goosebumps reader at all as a kid? My mother [Carol Schneider] narrates audio books. So my first time getting exposed to Goosebumps, she was narrating the audio book for Night of the Living Dummy; that was put into my psyche growing up. But I wasn’t a big, hardcore fan. Disney/Francisco…

January 10, 20250Comments

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Kayla Wallace – Landman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zxh49-bsIk&t=7s Taylor Sheridan is one of the most prolific and popular TV creators working today. What was it like learning you’d nabbed a role on one of his shows? It’s definitely a core memory. My husband [fellow actor Kevin McGarry] was filming me as I found out. I missed a call from Taylor Sheridan,…

January 8, 20250Comments

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