Seija Rankin

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When Carrie Coon was in Thailand filming The White Lotus, she had a lot on her mind. Trying not to sweat on camera in the nearly triple-digit temperatures. Preparing to deliver her pivotal monologue that would serve as a thesis for the entire season. Staying in touch with her family across the world in New York. But also: staying completely out of the sun.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Seija Rankin

Celine Song first had the idea for Materialists when she was working at a matchmaking service, but it wasn’t until years later that the idea fully came together. Song was at a charity event in New York, talking to a few donors about her work directing “off-off-Broadway” plays. “Very wealthy people often want to talk to broke artists about what it’s like to try to follow your passion,” she says with a laugh.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Seija Rankin

By Jeff Hiller  Hiller broke out in a big way as Bridget Everett’s BFF-next-door in the dramedy series Somebody Somewhere, but before he was on HBO he was a mainstay in the Joe’s Pub-centric New York comedy scene. And before that he was a gay teen in 1980s Texas. In his memoir-in-essays, Hiller recounts his early days in a small-town Lutheran church and his early days in the entertainment business. Using his now-signature pluck and wit, he tells readers about who he was and who he is.

2 weeks ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Seija Rankin

The night before her THR interview, Leighton Meester watched Friendship, the Tim Robinson cringe comedy about disastrous social encounters taken to absurd extremes — and she hasn’t stopped ruminating about it. “I really will think to myself, ‘What if I said or did the worst thing right now?’ ” she says. “Like I’m pushing against the instinct to do or say something crazy.” Lately, that anxiety feels a little less hypothetical.

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