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My Hollywood StoryIt’s a special bonus episode … featuring Ruth E. Carter!With her 2026 Oscar nomination for costume design for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners – her fifth! – two-time winner Ruth E. Carter is now the most-nominated Black woman in Academy history. Listen in to this special bonus episode featuring an exclusive Q&A between Ruth and the Soho House West Hollywood members who attended her taping in November 2025 wherein she reveals her approach to building a character’s personality into her designs, the importance of infusing joy into her work and other trade secrets that have made her a living legend.
Find Ruth’s original episode, published December 17, wherever you get your p...
2026-01-2815 minMy Hollywood StoryIt’s Jay Roach… Mike Myers insisted that he direct Austin Powers even though Jay had never helmed a major comedy before!How did a brainy kid from Albuquerque diverge from his pre-law studies and go on to helm two of the biggest comedy franchises of all time? Filmmaker Jay Roach joins "My Hollywood Story" for an introspective - and often very charming - look back at a movie career peppered with a rarefied mix of cinematic juggernauts (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents), high-brow deep-dives into American politics (HBO's Recount and Game Change) and at least one scathing indictment of an enduring TV news brand (Bombshell). Jay also reveals how he met his wife Susanna Hoffs (of The Bangles!) and how m...
2026-01-211h 10My Hollywood StoryIt’s Gus Van Sant ... he beat out Mel Gibson and Robert Redford to direct Good Will Hunting!How did a Kentucky native turn a love for photography into a directing career that’s made him Oregon’s most iconic storyteller? Filmmaker Gus Van Sant joins My Hollywood Story for a contemplative conversation about his wide-ranging film canon, including his latest film, Dead Man’s Wire. Van Sant reveals the unconventional path he traveled from art student to making seminal indies Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho and the Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting and Milk. Listen in as Van Sant also shares stories about the late River Phoenix, the disappointment of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and th...
2026-01-141h 01My Hollywood StoryIt’s Kaitlin Olson… she got paid to scream at Larry David! (LIVE)In honor of High Potential's triumphant season 2 return, we are re-airing our Kaitlin Olson episodes!
How did a shy kid from suburban Portland overcome a childhood trauma to become one of her generation’s most prolific comedy actors? Stacey welcomes Kaitlin Olson, Hacks’ two-time Emmy nominee – and Sweet Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia! – as she relives her weirdest day-jobs, Groundlings adventures, her bizarre Curb audition, falling in love with her Sunny boss and why she nearly passed on ABC’s mega-hit series High Potential.
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2026-01-121h 09My Hollywood StoryIt's a special bonus episode... featuring Kaitlin Olson!
In honor of High Potential's triumphant season 2 return, we are re-airing our Kaitlin Olson episodes!
How does Kaitlin know when she loves - or loathes - a role that's offered to her? And will there ever be an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia feature film? Tune in to this special bonus episode of My Hollywood Story to hear Kaitlin's previously unreleased responses from his post-interview audience Q&A. She's a hoot!
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2026-01-1207 minMy Hollywood StoryIt’s Patricia Clarkson… director Brian DePalma boosted her role in The Untouchables because he knew she was in debt!How did the New Orleanian daughter of a politician mom and academic dad ditch speech pathology studies for drama school and go on to earn an Oscar nomination and Golden Globes and Emmy statues? Patricia Clarkson joins “My Hollywood Story” to discuss her legendary acting career, including her recent turn playing the late American labor-rights activist Lilly Ledbetter. Listen in as Patricia reflects on her most career-shaping projects - from 1998’s High Art through her two-time Emmy-winning run on HBO’s Six Feet Under - and how she overcame relentless bullying from disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein over an awards campaign...
2026-01-071h 10My Hollywood StoryIt’s Charlie Sheen… his 1996 Friends guest role was his first professional acting gig in front of an audience!How did the son of an iconic performer (and brother of a Brat Packer) break out in a Best Picture winner and become TV’s highest-paid actor before having Hollywood’s most public drug-fueled meltdown of all time, and live to tell the story? Listen in as Golden Globe-winner Charlie Sheen - now eight-years sober - holds nothing back about his wild ride in Hollywood, including why his family feared for him in doing Platoon; how steroids affected his Major League performance; the secret his revealed to his Spin City cast in 2002; and why he takes full responsibility for the...
2025-12-311h 34My Hollywood StoryIt's Ruth E. Carter ... she’s dressed Malcolm X, George Costanza, Tina Turner, Black Panther and the vampires of Sinners!How does a self-taught sewer from Springfield, Massachusetts meet Spike Lee and go on to make history as the first Black woman to win a costume design Oscar? Ruth E. Carter joins "My Hollywood Story" for an expansive look inside her legendary career and most impactful collaborations. Listen in as Ruth shares how her stint at an HBCU shaped her artistic sense of self and the path that led her to designing costumes for such groundbreaking films as Do The Right Thing, What's Love Got to Do With It?, Amistad, BAPS and more. She also reveals how Afrofuturism inspired...
2025-12-171h 16My Hollywood StoryIt’s Kumail Nanjiani… his first job was fixing laptops for children on Chicago’s South Side!How did a movies-obsessed kid from Karachi, Pakistan become one of standup’s most respected comedians and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter? Kumail Nanjiani joins Stacey for a wide-ranging chat about the incredible journey that landed him among Hollywood’s most A-list talents. Kumail recalls how early gigs on Saturday Night Live and Portlandia helped shape his comedic tone; what he loved (and what freaked him out) about making HBO’s Silicon Valley; why he chose to address the backlash to his physical transformation for Marvel’s Eternals in his new Hulu standup special Night Thoughts; and the unexpected personal revelations he exper...
2025-12-101h 18My Hollywood StoryIt’s Marlee Matlin… she landed a Seinfeld role because Larry David saw her at the gym with Brad Pitt!How did a Morton Grove, IL teen - who’d become deaf at 18 months old - go on to become the youngest-ever Best Actress winner and forever change the face of disability? Marlee Matlin and her longtime ASL interpreter Jack Jason join “My Hollywood Story” for a moving - and funny - chat about her unprecedented Hollywood journey. Listen in as Marlee shares the joy (and pain) of her 1987 Oscar win for Children of a Lesser God; how she landed on iconic roles on Seinfeld, The West Wing and The L Word; the full-circle moment of Apple’s Oscar-winning CODA; an...
2025-12-031h 15My Hollywood StoryIt’s Scott Cooper… he was an actor on The X-Files before he directed Crazy Heart!How did an athlete from small-town Virginia parlay an acting career into making a movie about Bruce Springsteen? Scott Cooper joins Stacey in front of a live audience at Soho House West Hollywood for the premiere of “My Hollywood Story’s” second season to discuss his career and latest film, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. Listen in as Scott shares why he ditched acting to direct Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace; how The Boss became his family’s guardian angel after they lost their home in the L.A. fires; and what he’s learned about life and storyt...
2025-11-261h 09My Hollywood StoryIt's a special bonus episode... featuring David Oyelowo!Is it ever possible for David to know - while he's filming - if a movie or series is going to be a hit? What are some goals David is still hoping to achieve artistically? Tune in to our final special bonus episode from season one of My Hollywood Story to hear David's wonderfully thoughtful responses to post-interview audience questions. Enjoy!
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2025-09-1607 minMy Hollywood StoryIt's a special bonus episode... featuring Niecy Nash-Betts!Which award-winner director gave Niecy great advice when she most needed to hear it? And how did Niecy (hilariously) solve a child-care conundrum at an audition? Tune in to this special bonus episode of My Hollywood Story to hear Niecy's previously unreleased responses from his post-interview audience Q&A. She doesn't disappoint!
Find Niecy's original episode, published June 12, wherever you get your podcasts!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-niecy-nash-betts-her-first-line-of-on-screen/id1813001039?i=1000712541785
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2025-08-2611 minMy Hollywood StoryIt's a special bonus episode... featuring Billy Bob Thornton!Why does Billy Bob Thornton think it's good for artists to embrace their "afflictions?" And what is his latest TV obsession? (Hint: It stars Adam Scott, but it isn't Severance!) Tune in to this special bonus episode of My Hollywood Story to hear Billy's previously unreleased responses from his post-interview audience Q&A. We hope you like it!
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2025-08-1910 minMy Hollywood StoryIt's a special bonus episode... featuring Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino!What wild storyline did Dan and Amy almost pursue for the Gilmore Girls reboot Netflix reboot? What acclaimed drama series does Amy wish she'd written? Tune in to this special bonus episode of My Hollywood Story to hear the Palladinos' previously unreleased responses from their post-interview audience Q&A. Enjoy!
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2025-08-1212 minMy Hollywood StoryIt's Erin Foster and Sara Foster... Adam Brody is TV's favorite hot rabbi because of them!How did the daughters of an A-list music-producer dad forge their own entrepreneurial path, create a hit podcast and make one of Netflix’s top-rated comedies ? Writer Erin Foster – creator of Nobody Wants This – and her producer-business-partner-actor-co-host sibling Sara Foster join Stacey for an unfiltered chat about what it’s really like to be born into (perceived) fame. The women offer up candid takes on their unconventional upbringing, business ventures, Hollywood highs and lows and how it felt when their show became a lightning-rod for cultural and religious debate.
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2025-07-091h 28My Hollywood StoryIt's Fred Armisen… he was pen pals with John Waters when he was a teenager!How did a drumming-obsessed New Yorker turn a stint playing punk music into one of comedy’s most eclectic careers? Stacey welcomes Fred Armisen to the show to discuss his (almost) unbelievable artistic trajectory, from Chicago-drummer to landing Saturday Night Live to co-creating award-winning series like Documentary Now! and Portlandia. Fred also reveals the wisdom he’s gleaned from John Waters and Lorne Michaels; what it's like to be directed by Tim Burton and play with Devo; and the grief he didn’t expect to feel upon leaving SNL in 2013 after 11 seasons.
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2025-06-241h 14My Hollywood StoryIt’s Lesli Linka Glatter …. she directed Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls, Freaks and Geeks and Mad Men!How did a dancer raised between New York and Dallas accidentally find her artistic calling in Japan and go on to become one of TV’s most prolific directors? Lesli Linka Glatter joins Stacey for a riveting recap of her wide-ranging career — from early mentorship by Steven Spielberg and David Lynch to her emergence as Peak TV’s favorite director. Listen in as Lesli recalls her favorite moments with George Clooney, Lauren Graham, Timothee Chalamet, Robert DeNiro – and many more!
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That Twin Peaks scene with a moose head on the table
A young T...
2025-06-191h 24My Hollywood StoryIt’s Kate Hudson… her first ever TV appearance was on Party of Five! (LIVE)How did an aspiring performer born to famous parents make her own way in Hollywood and earn an Oscar nomination along the way? Kate Hudson joins Stacey for an enthusiastic, introspective stroll through her diverse Hollywood career, kickstarted 25 years ago by a Golden Globe-winning turn in Cameron Crowe’s classic Almost Famous. Kate treated our live audience to heartfelt stories about her folks (Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell!), getting “weird” with Matthew McConaughey, producing Netflix’s Running Point with Mindy Kaling and how singer Sia helped make her music dreams come true.
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2025-06-171h 10My Hollywood StoryIt’s Niecy Nash-Betts…her first line of on-screen dialogue was with Whoopi Goldberg! (LIVE)How did a young mother from South Central with a gift for making people laugh convince Hollywood she was also an awards-worthy dramatic actor? Grotesquerie star Niecy Nash-Betts joins Stacey for a rousing retrospective of her diverse career, from her wild breakout role on Comedy Central’s Reno 911! to her Emmy-winning turn in Ryan Murphy’s Dahmer - Monster. Niecy brings down the house with wild and inspiring stories about working with Robert Altman, Ava DuVernay, Kim Kardashian - and more.
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2025-06-121h 08My Hollywood StoryIt’s RJ Cutler… he’s the only guy Martha Stewart trusted to tell her story!How did an aspiring theater director and journalism nerd from Long Island become the go-to documentarian of our culture’s most complex personalities? Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker RJ Cutler details the beats of a wild career that’s landed him exclusive access to make documentaries about Anna Wintour, Dick Cheney, Billie Eilish, Elton John and, most recently, Martha Stewart in Netflix’s juicy 2024 tell-all Martha, about the world’s first influencer. And it’s a very good thing!
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American High on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5TrD3LpZyI
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2025-06-101h 14My Hollywood StoryIt’s David Oyelowo…he once filmed a Tom Cruise movie and a Daniel Day-Lewis movie - in the same day! (LIVE)How did a polite British kid defy his Nigerian-parents’ wishes for his becoming a lawyer to emerge one of Hollywood’s most electrifying performers? Golden-Globe nominee David Oyelowo reveals the dramatic journey he traveled from making history as a Black Shakespearean actor to playing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s film Selma. Listen in as David also shares with Stacey his most giddily surreal moments with Forest Whitaker, Tom Cruise, Daniel Day-Lewis and Oprah Winfrey, and why he loved making the Apple TV+ limited series Government Cheese.
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2025-06-051h 27My Hollywood StoryIt's Sharon Horgan… she can pluck anything!How did a Catholic school-girl from rural Ireland fall in love with Roseanne and become one of television’s great auteur voices of the streaming era? Stacey welcomes the BAFTA and Emmy-winning writer and actor Sharon Horgan to the show, who dissects – in her humbly sardonic, oh-so-Irish way – the surprising career milestones (and disappointments) that led her to creating and starring in fan-favorite series such as Pulling, Catastrophe and, most recently, Bad Sisters for Apple TV+. Sharon also shares her top-three favorite Nicolas Cage movies and the enduring love she feels for the late, great Carrie Fisher.
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2025-06-031h 11My Hollywood StoryIt’s Elisabeth Moss… even she didn’t know Peggy was going to be the hero of Mad Men!How did a ballet-trained child actor from L.A. escape the trappings of early fame to become the face of Peak TV? Emmy-winner Elisabeth Moss joins the show for a deep-dive into the evolution of prestige television— from her breakout role on NBC’s The West Wing, to the zeitgeist of AMC’s Mad Men and brutal beauty of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the final episodes of which Moss herself directed. She also dishes on the kindness of Winona Ryder, the loss of Brittany Murphy, feeling starstruck by Natalie Portman and her 25-year friendship with Bradley “Brad” Whitford.
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2025-05-291h 15My Hollywood StoryIt’s Nick Kroll… cover your kids’ ears!How did a self-described late-bloomer from suburban New York go from doing Wayne’s World impressions at school to netting two Emmy nominations and one of Hollywood’s most prolific comedy careers? Writer, actor, producer and comedian Nick Kroll - who co-created Netflix’s very dirty, puberty-themed animated series Big Mouth - reveals to Stacey the friends (John Mulaney!), the icons (Mel Brooks!) and the bizarre jobs (Cavemen!) that helped land him on the comedy A-list.
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Cavemen TV series pilot
History of the World part 1, where Mel Brooks reveals why there a...
2025-05-221h 20My Hollywood StoryIt’s Billy Bob Thornton... grab your french-fried potaters! (LIVE)How did a music-and-baseball obsessed daydreamer with dyslexia escape generational poverty in Arkansas to become an Oscar-winning screenwriter and iconic actor? Listen in as Stacey Wilson Hunt chats with Billy Bob Thornton - the Golden Globe-winning star of Paramount's Landman - about his adventures in Hollywood, including his wild stories about John Ritter, Harvey Weinstein, Val Kilmer, Mike Nichols, Heath Ledger, and more.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Andy Griffith: Romeo and Juliet
Movie trailer for "Giant"
"Jupiter Man" live
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