In Conversation With

By The Hollywood Reporter

What's In Conversation With about?

Welcome to In Conversation With, a Hollywood Reporter podcast produced in partnership with Apple TV+. In each episode we sit down with the creators and stars of some of TV's most compelling shows and hear more about what went into bringing these stories to life.

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In Conversation With episodes:

01.11.2021
Introducing 'Must Watch: Netflix Edition'
Each week, Observer senior entertainment reporter Brandon Katz and Hollywood Reporter contributor Jean Bentley highlight the new Netflix titles they're excited about. Recent guests: Daniel Fienberg from The Hollywood Reporter, Joanna Robinson from Vanity Fair, and Megan Vick from TV...
07.08.2020
Josh Gad - 'Central Park'
This week, The Hollywood Reporter speaks with Josh Gad, co-creator and star of 'Central Park' — Apple TV+’s new animated musical comedy. The Broadway vet discusses the exhaustive work of mounting multiple musical numbers in each episode, collaborating with different...
07.03.2020
J.K. Simmons - 'Defending Jacob'
The Hollywood Reporter speaks with J.K. Simmons about his work on Apple TV+’s limited series 'Defending Jacob,' in which he plays William "Bloody Billy" Barber, a man who is serving a prison sentence after a grizzly murder. The Oscar-winning actor...
06.26.2020
M. Night Shyamalan - 'Servant'
This week, The Hollywood Reporter checks in with M. Night Shyamalan, director and executive producer of 'Servant' — Apple TV+’s psychological thriller about a young couple whose already-unusual life is turned upside down with the arrival of a mysterious nanny....
06.19.2020
Ryan White - 'Visible: Out on Television'
For Pride Month, The Hollywood Reporter talks with Ryan White, director, and executive producer of 'Visible: Out on Television' — Apple TV+’s five-part documentary series about the history of LGBTQ people being reflected in the media. The filmmaker, whose docs...
06.12.2020
Rob McElhenney - 'Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet'
The Hollywood Reporter chats with Rob McElhenney, co-creator and star of 'Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet' — Apple TV+’s satire of the oft-dysfunctional video game industry. The multihyphenate explains how the cast and crew pulled off a quarantine special, remotely filmed...
06.08.2020
Michelle Dockery - 'Defending Jacob'
The Hollywood Reporter chats with Michelle Dockery, who stars in Apple TV+’s limited series 'Defending Jacob', as a mother whose 14-year-old son is accused of murdering his classmate. The actress speaks with THR about getting into the mindset of a...
05.27.2020
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani - 'Little America'
Welcome to In Conversation With, a Hollywood Reporter podcast produced in partnership with Apple TV+. In each episode we sit down with the creators and stars of some of TV's most compelling shows and hear more about what went into...
05.22.2020
Gugu Mbatha-Raw - 'The Morning Show'
The Hollywood Reporter sits down with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, star of The Morning Show — Apple TV+’s debut drama that premiered in 2019. The actress, who broke out in the films Belle and Beyond the Lights, revisits her season one arc...
05.22.2020
Gugu Mbatha-Raw - 'The Morning Show'
The Hollywood Reporter sits down with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, star of The Morning Show — Apple TV+’s debut drama that premiered in 2019. The actress, who broke out in the films Belle and Beyond the Lights, revisits her season one arc...
04.26.2017
Lena Dunham Interviews Samantha Bee on Trump, Trolls and Comedy's Fraught New Normal
Late night's queen of the Trump takedown gets grilled by the 'Girls' mastermind on her White House Correspondents' Dinner special and the "raging negativity" of politics.
04.12.2016
L.A. vs. N.Y. Cuisine Debate with Chefs Michael Voltaggio and Eddie Huang
The two TV personalities serve up their opinions on sushi ("L.A. is definitely on top"), which city is innovating more ("New York is a meat grinder. People will shit on you") and Manhattan’s most overrated restaurant ("It looks like a...
04.06.2016
Bernie Sanders and Spike Lee: The Hollywood Reporter's Full Conversation
Filmmaker Spike Lee interviews Presidential Nominee Bernie Sanders for The Hollywood Reporter's 2016 New York Power issue.
12.16.2015
The Roman Polanski Interview: His Personal Holocaust Story (Podcast)
In an exclusive, hour-long phone interview from Paris, the Oscar-winning director recalls the spiraling darkness of a childhood ravaged by the Holocaust, the loss of his mother at Auschwitz, his father’s pain and what liberation felt like.
02.06.2015
THR Song Nominees Summit: Common, Diane Warren, Other Nominees Talk Music, Oscars (2015)
Ex-New Radicals members Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois, Glen Campbell collaborator Julian Raymond and Mr. 'Awesome' Shawn Patterson also joined THR's Scott Feinberg for a 50-minute conversation that covered a wide variety of ground.