CELEBRITY INTERVIEWING: CONCLUSION

This Celebrity Interviewing Series may have taken a few months more than expected to complete, but I couldn’t be prouder of the final edited posts here! 

(Unfortunately, I couldn’t get around to including more foreign examples and red-carpet interviews. This may be something to do at a later time.) 

And I couldn’t be more grateful for those who gave their time to speak and correspond with me! Mara Webster, Jenelle Riley, and Bethany Watson, you are some of my greatest heroes! You have wonderfully accomplished careers with plenty still in your futures, but also are genuinely good people who ask your celebrity guests some of the best project/career-focused questions! 

The celebrity moderator is supposed to ask questions of the guest they’d like to know answers to, act as a medium by asking questions on behalf of others (the audience, the forum/venue, the project’s producers, and the guests’ representatives), and also share the space with the guest (but usually not take away their spotlight). The best moderators are able to have a professional but also positive rapport with their guest, know when to be serious or humorous, while also actively listening and appreciating their guests’ answers by keeping the conversation going for whatever running time they’ve been given. 

Plus, a round of applause to the actors I featured in these posts: Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Johnson, Leo DiCaprio, Michelle Yeoh, Rebecca Hall, Jake Gyllenhaal, Nicole Kidman, Steven Yeun, Hilarie Burton Morgan, Sterling K. Brown, Pamela Adlon, Constance Wu, and others! You are all so talented! 

Celebrity Interviewing 105: Variety's Actors-On-Actors Conversations

Awards Season is a time of speculation and competition for those in the entertainment industry celebrating itself. The anticipated nominated persons in film & television all gather at various functions for interviews and photo-ops promoting the year’s works to be nominated and then hopefully win.

For those who work in the business, it’s a small world. So even when working against each other they’re also making connections for future collaborations. They’re all rooting for themselves but have to/should/usually remain at least cordial with and respectful of their peers.

Variety’s Actors-on-Actors series gives actors an opportunity to sit-down with each other, talk about their appreciation for each other’s works, their careers, share some behind-the-scenes stories, and also learn more about each other’s processes.