Panelists

Brandon Sklenar

Actor

Julia Schlaepfer

Actor

Aminah Nieves

Actor

“It was amazing, scary, but empowering as an actor because for Season 2 [Taylor Sheridan] really just said, ‘Go. You guys have got this. You know the characters, and there’s the writing, and go.’”

Panelists

Sam Reid

Actor

Mark Johnson

Executive Producer

“I look at a scene Rolin [Jones] has adapted, look at Anne Rice’s original material and play them both at the same time. You have the backstory of what was originally there in the material in the mind of the character and Rolin’s adaptation presented foremost.”

Panelists

Paul Feig

Director/Producer

“Everybody was like, ‘How are you going to get [Emily] out of prison?’ I’m like, ‘Come on – Marvel brings people back from the dead. We can get somebody out of prison!’”

Panelists

Aldis Hodge

Producer/Actor

Ben Watkins

Creator/Showrunner/
Writer/Executive Producer

“I love that as an actor, I get to step in the shoes of a character that is reflecting what the definitive nature of justice should be and can translate and communicate that the experience is not monolithic. But as he walks through, he’s going to fight his hardest to stand up for his morality and never change his ethics. That to me is what a true hero looks like.”

Panelists

Brian Tyree Henry

Executive Producer/Actor

Peter Craig

Showrunner/Writer/

Director/

Executive Producer

“It’s a love story between these two men who have been incarcerated since they were 15, put in a system that told them they can’t be anything and released into the world still trying to figure out what kind of men they want to be. They just decide to pretend to be DEA agents and rob trap houses.”

Panelists

Luke Kirby

Actor

Gideon Glick

Actor

Lou de Laâge

Actor

“This is a show about people who love to create and who love art and will sacrifice anything to do it. I hope that maybe inspires other people that they can do the same.”

Panelists

Denis Leary

Executive Producer/

Actor

“There’s jet planes, cargo planes, tanks … and there’s real soldiers advising you. Off in the distance they’re really drilling for something. You feel really intimidated.”

Panelists

Ellen Pompeo

Executive Producer/Actor

Mark Duplass

Actor

Katie Robbins

Creator/

Co-Showrunner/

Executive Producer

Sarah Sutherland

Co-Showrunner/

Executive Producer

“It’s so glaring to me. These people just make these terrible choices, these unthoughtful choices, and they’re just convinced that they’re the victim. And I find that fascinating.”

Panelists

Billy Bob Thornton

Actor

“Originally there was a bunch of dialogue in those scenes. Taylor and I talked it over. You know what, I don’t know if I should say anything. People are going to get it. We don’t need to put a hat on a hat. It was a very powerful scene even doing it. Getting a coyote to stand still and stare at you is not easy but we managed.”

Panelists

Kathy Bates

Executive Producer/Actor

Jennie Snyder Urman

Showrunner/
Executive Producer

“When we shot that … I just thought, ‘OK, now we’ve got a show. We’ve got two strong women who can duke it out and who can fall in love with each other.’ That’s what the series, I think, is.”

Panelists

Nathan Lane

Executive Producer/Actor

Matt Bomer

Executive Producer/Actor

Nathan Lee Graham

Actor

“It’s more important than ever these days now that we’re in an authoritarian regime, and all of our rights are under threat.”

Panelists

Amber Sealey

Director

Luke Kirby

Actor

“When you see somebody whose body moves differently than yours or or communicates differently from you … presume that they’re a competent human being. Presume that they have a personality and an inner life.”

Panelists

Benito Skinner

Creator/Writer/

Executive Producer/

Actor

Scott King

Showrunner/

Executive Producer

Wally Baram

Actor

“I had had two margaritas, trashed. I told my boyfriend: ‘That’s Charli XCX. I want her to do the music for my show.’ He was like, ‘Feels kinda bold for a party, but go for it, live your life.’”

Panelists

Sterling K. Brown

Executive Producer/Actor

James Marsden

Actor

“I’ve loved this dude for such a long time, and after Jury Duty, where the man makes me pee on myself … to have a role that I knew was going to be rich and layered and fun that he could bring his loveliness to … I think James kills it. Kills it.”

Panelists

Kate Hudson

Executive Producer/Actor

Mindy Kaling

Co-Creator/

Executive Producer

Ike Barinholtz

Co-Creator/

Executive Producer

Dave Stassen

Co-Creator/

Executive Producer

“In a comedy like this, there’s a lot of wild stuff, and … they don’t give us parameters. And they’re not scared about what we might do, which, if someone was doing the show loosely based or loosely inspired on me, I’d be pretty protective, which isn’t good for comedy.”

Panelists

Rachel Tenner

Casting Director

Jeremy Hindle

Production Designer

Theodore Shapiro

Composer

“Ben [Stiller] and I … had been playing around with very different types of sound palettes, but there was this one sort of thematic idea that I thought that Ben was really responding to. He has really good instincts, so we always follow Ben’s ideas …”

Panelists

Michael Fassbender

Executive Producer/Actor

Richard Gere

Actor

Jodie Turner-Smith

Actor

Jeffrey Wright

Actor

“For an audience, you’ve got to lean in a little bit, do a little work yourself. They’re always the things I find most rewarding.”

Panelists

Olivia Milch

Co-Showrunner/

Executive Producer

Regina Corrado

Co-Showrunner/

Executive Producer

Elizabeth Banks

Executive Producer/Actor

Jessica Biel

Executive Producer/Actor

“I think the thing that really stuck with us when I was reading was this idea that siblings get different versions of their parents depending on birth order, and that shapes your identity.”

Panelists

Jack Quaid

Actor

Erin Moriarty

Actor

Antony Starr

Actor

“There [are] so many shows that pull punches now … that want to take the correct boxes and do things right — and this has never been a show that’s done that.”

Panelists

Elisabeth Moss

Director/

Executive Producer/

Actor

Yahlin Chang

Co-Showrunner/

Executive Producer

Bradley Whitford

Actor

Yvonne Strahovski

Actor

“This season is so much about choice — choice whether to go towards the light or go towards the dark. The choices they make are sometimes surprising and you won’t see them coming for sure.”

Panelists

Bella Ramsey

Actor

Craig Mazin

Co-Creator/

Writer/Director/

Executive Producer

Neil Druckmann

Co-Creator/

Writer/Director/

Executive Producer

“There’s definitely some doubt that Ellie has about that lie that Joel told her at the end of Season 1, so I think that plays a big part in the shift in the relationship [in Season 2]. It’s really difficult playing being cold to him … it’s sadder for sure. And it will continue to just get sadder and more cold … so look forward to that.”

Panelists

Noah Wyle

Executive Producer/Actor

John Wells

Executive Producer

R. Scott Gemmill

Creator/

Executive Producer

“There’s no differentiation between the foreground and the background crew. We are all the company, and we are all going to have a very immersive experience. It’s a very atypical way of working, and hopefully, they’ll come away with something very special.”

Panelists

James Weaver

Executive Producer

Melissa Kostenbauder

Casting Director

Adam Newport-Berra

Director of Photography

Ike Barinholtz

Actor

“You don’t read everything on the call sheet, so you would be there acting and go, ‘Oh, that’s Jean Smart. They got Jean Smart. There’s Aaron Sorkin.’ It was crazy how many people showed up.”

Panelists

Colin Callender

Executive Producer/

Founder & Chairman, Playground

Damian Lewis

Actor

“Henry’s favorite pastime when he’s not writing poetry is, he just really gets a kick out of chopping people’s heads off.”

Panelists

Melanie Lynskey

Actor

Christina Ricci

Actor

Bart Nickerson

Creator/Writer/Director/Executive Producer

Ashley Lyle

Creator/Writer/

Executive Producer

“Everything that happens this season in terms of the downward spiral of all these women, and their younger selves, was something that we had thought of from the very beginning.”