One Nightstand

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. For this episode, Charlotte Owen chats with Phantom of the Opera star Emmy Rossum to discuss the book her therapist swore by, her surprising obsession with Real Housewives of Rhode Island, and whether the Shameless cast group chat is still buzzing. 

Emmy Rossum's One Nightstand picks: 

• Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy

• We Are Too Little: A Memoir [Kind Of] by Hannah Pittard 

• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

• Blood Test: A Comedy by Charles Baxter 

Emmy’s new psychological crime thriller Furious is currently streaming on Hulu.  

Credits

Director of Photography: Marshall Stief 

Assistant Camera: Jasmine Velez

Producer: Aubree LennonAsst. Producer: Mila Grgas

Editor: Matt Hoffman

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. For this episode, Charlotte Owen sits down with Emmy and Tony Award winner John Leguizamo to talk about four incredible titles, his role in The Odyssey — including playing padel with Tom Holland — as well as the book that took him five years to write.  And don’t worry, his turn as Tybalt in Baz Luhrmann's ‘Romeo & Juliet’ comes up too!  

John Leguizamo’s One Nightstand picks: 

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

• Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill

• Dubliners by James Joyce

• Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

John stars in Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster The Odyssey, out everywhere July 17. His first children’s book, Kiki and the Can, hits shelves in early August. 

This episode of One Nightstand is presented by ‘Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass’ 

Credits

Director of Photography: Marshall Stief 

Assistant Camera: Jasmine Velez

Producer: Aubree Lennon

Asst. Producer: Mila Grgas

Editor: Zoë Calman, James Koroni

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. In this episode, Charlotte Owen sits down with SNL alum and Tony nominee Ana Gasteyer to talk about the book she’s desperate to adapt, what it was like working on ‘Mean Girls’ with Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan, and why playing the villain is so fun!  

Ana Gasteyer’s One Nightstand picks: 

• The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts 

• Everybody by Brendan Jacob Jenkins

• Shy by Mary Roger and Jesse Greene

• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner  

Ana is currently starring on Broadway in the Tony-nominated Schmigadoon and will return to the big screen in Never Change! on June 9. 

Credits

Director of Photography: Marshall Stief

Assistant Camera: Jasmine Velez

Producer: Aubree Lennon

Asst. Producer: Mila Grgas

Editor: Matt Hoffman, Cian Smith

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. Charlotte Owen sits down with Top Gun: Maverick star Lewis Pullman to discuss the books he was introduced to while filming Outer Range, what it was like growing up following his famous father (Bill Pullman) around the country, and how he deals with the pressure of working on adaptations like Lessons in Chemistry and Remarkably Bright Creatures.  

Lewis Pullman’s One Nightstand picks: 

• The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

• Close Range by Annie Proulx

• Motel Chronicles by Sam Shepard  

• Classic Crews by Henry Crews  

Lewis currently stars with Sally Field in Netflix’s Remarkably Bright Creatures, streaming now, and he’ll reprise his role of Sentry in Avengers: Doomsday, out later this year. 

Credits

Director of Photography: Marshall Stief

Assistant Camera: Jasmine Velez

Producer: Aubree LennonAsst.

Producer: Mila Grgas

Editor: James Koroni

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. Charlotte Owen sits down with actress, producer, and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus to discuss the author who moved her to tears, her experience at the helm of Veep, and the particular Seinfeld punchline she doesn’t agree with.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s One Nightstand picks: 

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout  

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ new movie The Sheep Detectives is in theaters May 8th.

Credits

Director of Photography: Marshall Stief

Assistant Camera: Jasmine Velez

Producer: Aubree Lennon

Asst. Producer: Mila Grgas

Editor: James Koroni

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. In this episode, Charlotte Owen talks with multihyphenate star Colman Domingo about the title he considered adapting, why he wishes Season 3 of Euphoria was released all at once, and what it’s like working with Steven Spielberg. 

Colman Domingo’s One Nightstand picks: 

• Hollywood by Garson Kanin.

• Theater Kid by Jeffrey Seller.

• The Hinterland; Cabins, Love Shacks and Other Hide-Outs by Gestalten (publisher).

• Pimp by Iceberg Slim.

Colman Domingo is currently starring in Michael and Euphoria and will return to the big screen later this year in Spielberg's Disclosure Day.

Credits

Director of Photography: Jasmine Velez

Assistant Camera: Sam Cowan

Producer: Aubree Lennon

Asst. Producer: Mila Grgas

Editor: James Koroni, Matt Hoffman

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. In this episode, Charlotte Owen sits down with the hysterical Elizabeth Banks to talk about her endless love of Salinger and Colson Whitehead, why she thinks the world needs more Effie Trinkets, and if Matthew Macfadyen is her Mr. Darcy.

Elizabeth Banks’s One Nightstand picks: 

• Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger.

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. 

The full first season of The Miniature Wife starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen is streaming now.

Credits

Director of Photography: Marshall Stief

Assistant Camera: Jasmine Velez

Producer: Aubree Lennon

Asst. Producer: Mila Grgas

Editor: James Koroni

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. In this episode, Charlotte Owen chats with Outlander actor Caitriona Balfe about the importance of intimacy in storytelling, why she thinks Daphne du Maurier wrote women the way she did, and the book she’s gifted more than any other. 

Caitriona Balfe’s One Nightstand picks: 

• Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy.

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey.

• Prophet Song by Paul Lynch.

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

The final season of Outlander is streaming on Starz now. Balfe will also appear in Sense and Sensibility with Daisy Edgar-Jones, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw out later this year. 

Credits

Director of Photography: Konstantin Yelisevich

Assistant Camera: Ian Sanchez

Producer: Aubree Lennon

Asst. Producer: Mila Grgas

Editor: James Koroni

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. In this episode, Charlotte Owen sits down with EGOT winner and New York Times No. 1 bestseller Viola Davis, who shares the book she says brought her “into consciousness,” what she’d like to ask Richard Wright, and why she chose to quote August Wilson after Michael B. Jordan’s iconic win.

Viola Davis’ One Nightstand picks: 

• Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

• Black Boy by Richard Wright

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert 

• Judge Stone by Viola Davis and James Patterson 

Viola’s new novel Judge Stone, a legal thriller co-written with James Patterson, is available everywhere now. 

Credits

Director of Photography: Marshall Stief

Assistant Camera: Jasmine Velez

Producer: Aubree Lennon

Editor: James Koroni

In ⁠One Nightstand⁠, celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books. In this episode, Charlotte Owen sits down with Daniel Radcliffe to talk about the title he still thinks about “all the time,” if he got advance copies of the Harry Potter series, and why his new play is different from anything he’s done before. 

Daniel Radcliffe’s One Nightstand picks: 

• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

• The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester 

• How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr 

Daniel is currently appearing on Broadway in Every Brilliant Thing and starring in NBC’s The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, airing now. 

Credits

Director of Photography: Konstantin Yelsevich 

Assistant Camera: Ian Sanchez

Producer: Aubree Lennon

Editor: James Koroni