Rebecca Ford

Los Angeles

Senior Hollywood Correspondent at Vanity Fair

Senior Awards Correspondent at @VanityFair. Previously @THR. LA-based world-wanderer.

Articles

Jason Segel and Kristen Bell Will Always Remember 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

In Reunited, Awards Insider hosts a conversation between two Emmy contenders who have collaborated on a previous project. Who would have thought that a raunchy comedy featuring a naked breakup scene and a Dracula musical would change everything for its two lead actors? The 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, about a freshly dumped guy who takes a solo vacation to Hawaii and discovers his ex is at the same resort with her new fling, did just that for Jason Segel and Kristen Bell.
Molly Gordon’s So Much More Than The Bear’s Dream Girl

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

“I’ve never been in something that people watch,” says Molly Gordon, “which is a very different experience.” She’s talking about her breakout turn in the bittersweet Emmy favorite The Bear and underselling her résumé a little: Gordon has been on Ramy and Animal Kingdom, as well as indie movies like Booksmart. But it’s true that playing the woman trying to get into the locked freezer of Carmy’s heart has put a more intense spotlight on Gordon.
Molly Gordon’s So Much More Than The Bear’s Dream Girl

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Rebecca Ford

15 hours agoMore Jeremy Allen White? I'm in! I've honestly been loving Hulu lately. Sometimes, it's tempting to cut back on streaming subscriptions to save a bit of extra cash each month, but this particular platform isn't one I'm willing to give up just yet. That's because, back in March, I was gripped by the …
Inside 'Squid Game' Season 2’s Killer Merry-Go-Round Competition

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk can still remember playing Mingle, a schoolyard game in which contestants must form groups based on numbers that are called out. If you’re left without a group, you’re out. In Hwang’s memory, one game came down to him, his best friend, and one other boy. The number “two” was called out. “If we two just hugged each other, then we would be done,” he says.
First Look: Colin Farrell Falls for Margot Robbie in 'A Big Bold Beautiful Journey'

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie were both looking for some magic. Each of them had recently made the biggest projects of their careers. Robbie’s was Barbie, the $1.4 billion blockbuster hit that earned eight Oscar nominations. Farrell’s was The Penguin, the gritty HBO series in which he transformed (with about three hours a day of prosthetics and makeup) into Gotham City’s infamous villain.
Stop Asking Mike White’s Casting Guru If You Can Be on ‘The White Lotus’

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Casting director Meredith Tucker and White Lotus creator Mike White have been friends and collaborators since they met in an acting class during their freshman year at Wesleyan University. They’ve worked together on many of White’s projects, including 2007’s Year of the Dog, 2016’s Mamma Dallas, and 2017’s Brad’s Status, and she also helped out on his hit series Enlightened. Over the years, they’ve developed a shorthand that has served them well.
Jessica Biel Kills Again in ‘The Better Sister’

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Jessica Biel has already stabbed a man to death for mysterious reasons and (allegedly) murdered her neighbor. In her latest TV series, she’s playing another troubled woman: a high-profile media executive who may or may not have killed her husband. “When you line ’em up like that, it’s like, Okay, what is wrong with you? What is your problem?’” says Biel with a slight smirk.
‘Last of Us’ Director Neil Druckmann on the Twists, Deaths, and Controversies of “The Price”

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Neil Druckmann, the creative force behind the Last of Us video games, gets why viewers of the TV show would expect any episode he directs to be packed with action. He sort of expected that too. But the episode of the series he just helmed is relatively light on brutality—unless you count heavy-duty emotional violence.
Helen Hunt Thinks Her ‘Hacks’ Character’s Shocking Exit Was “Surprising and Inevitable”

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the eighth episode of season four of Hacks. Helen Hunt is a big fan of late-night talk shows. “I’m very plugged into that world and how it’s shifted,” she says.
Kristen Stewart Waited Her Whole Life to Direct 'The Chronology of Water'

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

I hop on the phone with Kristen Stewart the very same day that she’s putting the final touches on her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water. “I could start crying,” she says. “I’m sorry, I’ve come in kind of hot.”She has come in kind of hot, words spilling out of her fast and furiously and full of passion. She’s been trying to make this movie for eight years—and waiting to direct her whole life. Stewart’s acting career needs no introduction.