Wrap Magazine
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From Battling Brain Cancer to Directing an Oscar Contender: Maria Sodahl’s Dramatic Journey to ‘Hope’
TheWrap magazine: “I hate sentimental cancer movies, and I didn’t want to do something like that,” Sodahl says of turning her own diagnosis into art
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How a Severed Hand Led to Taiwan’s Oscar Contender ‘A Sun’
TheWrap magazine: “I imagined that the incident happened on a rainy day, and the hand dropped into a hot pot,” says director Chung Mong-hong
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Elisabeth Moss on How Her ‘Thoughtful’ Career Choices Led Her to ‘Invisible Man,’ ‘Shirley’
TheWrap magazine: “I am interested in playing everything from superhero women to antiheroes,” the actress tells TheWrap
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Orion Lee’s Secret to Becoming a Leading Man in ‘First Cow’: Take It One Scene at a Time
TheWrap magazine: “I’d never played a lead before on screen, but I knew I could do scenes,” says the actor in Kelly Reichardt’s quiet drama
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How ‘The Truffle Hunters’ Turned Dogs Into Cameramen for Documentary
TheWrap magazine: “We lost a lot of cameras (that) flew off into the trees,” says co-director Gregory Kershaw
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How Guatemalan Horror Film ‘La Llorona’ Used Genre to Examine Genocide
TheWrap magazine: Director Jayro Bustamante says his Oscar entry was a way to use horror elements to examine issues that viewers don’t want to talk about
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‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Star Sidney Flanigan on Why She Set Aside Music for Her First Film Role
TheWrap magazine: “Reproductive rights have always been under threat, so artists (should) keep using their tools to make people aware,” says the first-time actress
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‘Ma Rainey’ Star Colman Domingo on Being Black in Hollywood: ‘You Always Have to Fight to Get Your Worth’
TheWrap magazine: “I think of that line that Viola (Davis) says in the movie: ‘They want your talent, but they don’t want all of you,’” says the veteran actor
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How Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Became 1930s-Style Tunesmiths for ‘Mank’
TheWrap magazine: The Nine Inch Nails composers were hired to write the score but ended up also creating music to play over radios in David Fincher’s film
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Forget the Beatles: Daniel Pemberton Wrote a New Song for ‘Chicago 7’ Instead of the Fab Four
TheWrap magazine: The composer and singer Celeste collaborated on “Hear My Voice” for a spot in the film in which Aaron Sorkin wanted to use “Here Comes the Sun”
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Koné Bakary’s Road to the Oscars: Recite a Poem, Land a Big Role
TheWrap magazine: Bakary was a student who had never before acted when he was cast as the lead in the acclaimed African film “Night of the Kings”
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From Welder to Actor – The Unlikely Rise of ‘I’m No Longer Here’ Star Juan Daniel Garcia
TheWrap magazine: “I didn’t know if I could lose a day of work to go meet these dudes, or if they even wanted to work with me,” says the young Mexican actor
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From ‘Unorthodox’ to ‘Asia’ – Inside Shira Haas’ Busy Pandemic
TheWrap magazine: “Being at my home when all this amazing craziness is happening helps me to process it, maybe,” says the actress who stars in Israel’s Oscar entry
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How Mads Mikkelsen Got His Buzz on for Oscar Contender ‘Another Round’
TheWrap magazine: “It was an interesting premise to dive into the idea of what positive stuff comes out of alcohol,” Mikkelsen said
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How Rod Lurie and Rita Wilson Turned Personal Tragedy Into a Moving Song for ‘The Outpost’
TheWrap magazine: “I realized that the song should be about trying to find a meaning in the life that you are leading, because you could go at any point,” says Lurie
