Writer and producer Our Lady J, also known as Yona Speidel, talks The Burroughs, queer storytelling, career pivots and why she's done chasing one lane. This is a great chat if you’ve ever been interested in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry.  

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Judith Light talks The Terror: Devil in Silver on AMC+/Shudder, career reinvention and why there's nothing to get in life — only what you can give. If you grew up with her on Who’s the Boss? or were moved by her performance in Transparent, then this chat is for you.  

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Luke Gulbranson went from Summer House to the campaign trail. Now he's running for Congress in Minnesota and making his case. 

"Congress doesn't work for the people. It works for the party, it works for the president, it works with private and special interests. I'm sick of it,” Gulbranson told Newsweek.  

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Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey on World of Wonder, Stop! That! Train! and why RuPaul was born to lead a disaster movie. 

In a media landscape that Bailey describes as its own disaster movie, "tectonic, seismic change" and all, Stop! That! Train! is their answer: an hour and a half of joyful, unapologetic stupidity at a moment when joy feels like its own act of resistance. "There is power in that," Barbato said. "It's a reason to leave the house for crying out loud." 

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Director Adam Shankman on Stop! That! Train!, bringing comedy back to theaters and why stupidity is exactly what we need. 

"I hope I did my part to drag that into our current time," he told Newsweek. "It's unapologetically queer, but I made it for everybody." 

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Will Sharpe has been on a roll since White Lotus, and now he's taking on one of fiction's most iconic roles — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Starz original series ‘Amadeus.’ Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott chats with Sharpe about keeping Mozart grounded, the chemistry with co-star Paul Bettany and what it's like to navigate a career that just keeps getting bigger. 

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Tony and Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf reflects on her remarkable Broadway season, Death of a Salesman, co-star Nathan Lane and the enduring legacy of Roseanne’s Aunt Jackie. 

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Sally Field opens up about playing Tova in Netflix's Remarkably Bright Creatures, based on the bestselling book—a story about loneliness, loss and an unlikely bond with an octopus. (Yes, an octopus.) “It has always been hard for me to find roles that I wanted to do, even in supposedly the prime of my motion picture career,” Field told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. 

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Michelle Pfeiffer and Nick Offerman talk Apple TV’s Margo's Got Money Troubles, working with David E. Kelley and that infamous Catwoman Oscars snub for Batman Returns. (She was robbed!) This is one you’re not going to want to miss.  

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Richard Gadd follows Baby Reindeer with Half Man, an HBO limited series about two repressed ‘brothers’ in Glasgow. “I came up with the two characters ,and I couldn't shake them.” 

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