The Movie of Your Life with Richard Roeper

Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti discusses her autobiographical one-woman comedy show, "Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares", coming to Chicago for five performances at Steppenwolf’s downstairs theater, and why playing herself in a show she wrote feels more vulnerable than performing someone else’s material.

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Richard Roeper interviews stand-up comedian and podcaster Holly Brown about her dark comedy podcast "Everybody Knows But Me", inspired by her father’s deathbed confession that he had twin sons everyone else in the family knew about. Brown, a Valley girl raised in Los Angeles whose dad worked on ’90s sitcoms including Frasier, explains how she uses sitcom structure, actors, and sound design to process grief, family dysfunction, and healing through humor, and teases whether she eventually meets her half-brothers.

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Richard Roeper interviews Steve Sarowitz, Paylocity founder and chairman/financial backer of Wayfarer Studios and Wayfarer Theaters. Sarowitz addresses recent legal controversy involving Justin Baldoni, saying accusations were false and his Baha’i faith and loyalty to Baldoni helped him endure the ordeal.

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Richard Roeper talks with filmmaker and actor Beth Lane about her Netflix documentary Unbroken, which chronicles the true story of seven Jewish siblings hidden for two years outside Berlin during World War II, the only known family of seven to survive the Holocaust together before being separated in foster care after arriving in America.

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Actor Gary Cole discusses returning to the Chicago stage for the first time in 25 years to star in Mia Chung’s Catch as Catch Can at Steppenwolf Theatre during its 50th anniversary season (running through July 12). Cole also shares favorite films, his first impactful theater movie, a surprising in-room Entourage casting, and his choice of a dream set to observe.

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Richard Roeper welcomes journalist-filmmaker David Greene and Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor to discuss their documentary Louder Than Guns, created after the Covenant School tragedy in Nashville to explore whether music, conversation, and community can help bridge America’s gun divides. Join Greene and filmmaker Doug Pray June 24th at Wayfarer Theaters Highland Park for a screening of the film and Q&A.

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Richard Roeper welcomes Corey Hendrix, a West Side Chicago actor known for The Chi, Fargo, and The Bear, discussing how Chicago’s theater and improv communities shaped his craft and his commitment to authenticity in Chicago-set stories. He shares advice for aspiring actors, details preparing for Sweeps’ sommelier arc in The Bear through tastings and experts, and names the films that were influential to him.

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Actor and longtime comic Jeremy Piven, known for his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning work as Ari Gold on Entourage, discusses his storied film and television career. Piven is currently on the road and Chicago area folks can see his stand-up June 12–14 at the Chicago Improv in Schaumburg. Tickets at improv.com.

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Richard Roeper hosts Olivia Newman and Shelby Van Pelt to discuss the Netflix film adaptation of Van Pelt’s "Remarkably Bright Creatures", starring Sally Field. Newman describes the key adaptation challenges and casting Alfred Molina as Marcellus’s voice.

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Denise Richards stars in the indie thriller "Dirty Hands" now available on Apple TV and Prime Video. Richards discusses how promoting the film has changed following the sudden death of actor and co-star Patrick Muldoon and also reflects on her Seinfeld “The Shoes” guest spot, her 1990s run (Starship Troopers, Wild Things, The World Is Not Enough, Drop Dead Gorgeous), her interest in comedy, and her moviegoing memories.

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