Movie Interviews

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Tom Hanks Says Self-Doubt Is 'A High-Wire Act That We All Walk'

1:29pm August 29, 2016

"No matter what we've done, there comes a point where you think, ... 'When are they going to discover that I am, in fact, a fraud?' " Hanks says. Originally broadcast April 26, 2016.

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'Southside With You': Meet The Actors Who Portray Barack And Michelle Obama

10:12pm August 27, 2016

by NPR Staff

The romantic comedy opened in theaters Friday and is loosely based on President Obama's first date with Michelle Robinson when they were in their 20s, working at the same Chicago law firm.

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Rachel Weisz Plays With Identity In 'Complete Unknown'

8:44am August 27, 2016

Rachel Weisz plays a woman who reinvents herself through the years in her new movie "Complete Unknown." NPR's Scott Simon talks to her about the film.

Floyd Norman was Disney's first African-American animator. He's shown above in 1956, working as an "apprentice inbetweener" on Sleeping Beauty.

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At 81, Disney's First African-American Animator Is Still In The Studio

5:04am August 26, 2016

by NPR Staff

First hired in the 1950s, Floyd Norman is still drawing. "Creative people don't hang it up," he says. "We don't walk away, we don't want to sit in a lawn chair. ... We want to continue to work. "

John Krasinski's character returns to his small hometown when his mother (Margo Martindale) is hospitalized with a brain tumor in The Hollars.

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Actor John Krasinski Takes Stock Of His 'Lottery-Ticket Life'

4:06pm August 24, 2016

Krasinski says he's thankful for his big break "every single day." Three years after the wrap of The Office, he continues to branch out. He's now directing and co-starring in the film The Hollars.

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Nate Parker attends the 'The Birth Of A Nation' Premiere during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Nate Parker's Past, His Present, And The Future of 'Birth Of A Nation': Episode 14

10:52am August 24, 2016

by Gene Demby

News of a 1999 rape case against Nate Parker raises some age-old questions about culture. Can art be separated from its creator? What moral obligations, if any, do the consumers of culture bear?

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With 'Hell Or High Water,' Jeff Bridges Returns To The American West

5:48pm August 21, 2016

The actor discusses his new film, a return to a genre Bridges knows quite well: the Western. He talks with host Farai Chideya.

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Interview With Jonah Hill And Todd Phillips On New Film 'War Dogs'

10:07am August 21, 2016

Jonah Hill and Todd Phillips talk with Rachel Martin about their "War Dogs," which tells the mostly-true story of two pot-smoking 20-year-olds who win a $300 million U.S. government weapons contract.

Kubo is swept up by origami wings in the new film, Kubo and the Two Strings, an action-adventure, stop-motion animation by Laika studios.

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A Samurai's Son Makes Stop-Motion Magic With Music And Origami

5:19pm August 19, 2016

by NPR Staff

Kubo and the Two Strings is a sprawling new fantasy film from Laika animation studios. Filmmaker Travis Knight says it's all about merging brand new technology with age-old art and craft.

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In the 10 years it took Natalie Portman to adapt Amos Oz's autobiographical novel, A Tale of Love and Darkness, she grew into the role of the lead character, Fania — the mother of young Amos, who has immigrated to Palestine from Eastern Europe.

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It Took A Decade, But Portman 'Just Had To Make' Her Latest Film

6:28pm August 18, 2016

by NPR Staff

In the years it took Natalie Portman to adapt Amos Oz's autobiographical novel, A Tale of Love and Darkness, she grew into the role of the lead character, Fania — the immigrant mother of young Amos.

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