In all the years that I’ve produced Variety‘s Actors on Actors conversations, I’ve resisted the temptation to divulge how exactly the sausage gets made. When fans gripe on social media, for instance, about how our magazine didn’t pair two obviously compatible actors together, I haven’t taken to X to explain that we really tried, but […]

This interview is part of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series. Watch the full video interview now at CNN.com/Watch (or on the CNN app) and on Variety’s YouTube channel starting at 11:59 p.m. ET. Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott first met as young, eager, internet-savvy members of Brooklyn’s alternative stand-up scene, who didn’t fit into […]

Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage haven’t seen each other for seven years — not since the 2019 conclusion of “Game of Thrones,” the megahit HBO fantasy series that launched Harington’s career and cemented Dinklage’s, earning him three Emmys. But they spent the better part of a decade working together, enduring brutal conditions to tell an […]

This interview is part of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series. Watch the full video interview now at CNN.com/Watch (or on the CNN app) and on Variety’s YouTube channel starting at 11:59 pm ET. From 2012 through 2018, Kerry Washington played Washington, D.C.—fixer Olivia Pope alongside Tony Goldwyn’s President Fitzgerald Grant on “Scandal,” the Shonda […]