The Reel

The Reel

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The Envelope podcast pulls back the curtain to reveal intimates stories from this award season’s top contenders. A-list actors, directors and showrunners join Los Angeles Times entertainment reporters Yvonne Villarreal and Mark Olsen for conversations about their personal lives and creative processes — and how it all fuels their art.

Recent Episodes

  • Why Nava Mau 'needed' 'Baby Reindeer' and how Hiroyuki Sanada shaped 'Shōgun' from the start

    3 months ago
  • Tyler James Williams on frustrating 'Abbott' fans, 'Hacks' star Paul W. Downs on the comedy 'crisis'

    3 months ago
  • Naomi Watts on the new ‘Feud’ and Issa López on ‘True Detective’ discourse

    5 months ago
  • Cynthia Nixon on pulling double duty for HBO, Max and Lulu Wang on her leap to TV

    5 months ago
  • Aja Naomi King on "Lessons in Chemistry" and the "Elsbeth" team on expanding "Good Wife" universe

    5 months ago
  • Maya Erskine talks "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" secrets and Viet Thanh Nguyen on adapting "The Sympathizer"

    6 months ago
  • Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell talk 'Barbie,' songwriting and imposter syndrome

    9 months ago
  • America Ferrara on the life-changing 'Barbie' and Nadia Stacey on the 'no wigs' rule for 'Poor Things'

    9 months ago
  • Diane Warren on 'The Fire Inside' and Rodrigo Prieto talks 'Killers of the Flower Moon' and 'Barbie'

    9 months ago
  • Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ story

    10 months ago