The 20-year-old breakout star of Steven Spielberg's reimagining of the classic musical reflects on how she fell in love with musical theater, the year-long process that led to her being chosen over 30,000 others for the part of Maria and how she is handling sudden stardom.

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The first Spanish actress ever to win an Oscar reflects on her unlikely journey from superfan to seven-time muse of Pedro Almodóvar, her opportunities in Hollywood versus Europe and why she, like Almodóvar, feels that the part she plays in their latest collaboration was her most challenging yet.

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The principal songwriters of U2, one of the most popular and influential bands of all time, reflect on the origins of their sound and social conscience, how they’ve managed to stay together longer than almost any other major band and why their first new tune in three years was “Your Song Saved My Life,” which is shortlisted for the best original song Oscar.

Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst.

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One of only six actors who has played James Bond, and the one who has held the part the longest, reflects on why he almost turned down the offer to join the iconic film franchise, what he found most challenging and gratifying about being part of it and what's next for him following his fifth and final installment.

But first: Barbara Broccoli — previously a guest on episode 192 — who, along with her half-brother and EON Productions partner Michael G. Wilson, has overseen the James Bond franchise for the last 27 years, discusses the decision to cast Craig as 007 and his contributions to the franchise.

Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst.

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The English actress best known for playing psychopath Villanelle on 'Killing Eve' reflects on how the actor Stephen Graham helped her early in her career, becoming the youngest-ever winner of the best actress in a drama series Emmy (at the time) and why, prior to 2021, she feared she might never get a shot at acting in films.

Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst.

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The dashing actor best known for playing a BDSM-obsessed businessman in the '50 Shades' trilogy reflects on abandoning modeling for acting, why he signed up to play Christian Grey and the lesser known parts before, between and since that part in which he has demonstrated that he's much more than a pretty face.

Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst.

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The four-time Emmy winner for 'Game of Thrones' opens up about the personal “code” that kept him, as a person with a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, from accepting stereotypical sorts of roles even when they were the only job offers he was receiving, how the part of Tyrion Lannister changed his life and what it was like carrying a musical for the first time.

Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst.

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In front of an audience at Chapman University, the Hollywood trailblazer — a talented actress who was one of the first Black Bond girls, was the first Black comic book-movie superheroine, and remains to this day the only Black winner of the best actress Oscar — reflects on race, beauty, the "Oscar curse" and, at 55, directing for the first time and playing an MMA fighter in the same film.

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In front of an audience at Chapman University, one of only a few filmmakers in Hollywood who makes movies which are consistently embraced by both highbrow critics and mass audiences reflects on his beginnings in Canada, why he once took nine years off from directing features and making six major movies in the last eight years, including, most recently, one he's dreamed of making since age 13.

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The Grammy-winning siblings reflect on their relationship, their different approaches to songwriting and why a Bond song was always on their bucket list: "It was almost the most we've ever wanted to do anything," says Eilish.

Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst.

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