Wrap Magazine
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How Oscar Favorite ‘Cold War’ Turned a Personal Story Into a Sweeping Epic
TheWrap foreign magazine: Director Pawel Pawlikowski based the story on his parents’ volatile relationship, but he says he wanted to set it in “the epic backgrounds” of post-World War II Europe
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‘Champions’ Director Says Disabled Actors Rewrote His Hit Spanish Movie
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “After casting, we rewrote the entire screenplay using the personalities of the people, their experiences, their real lives,” says director Javier Fesser
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How ‘Dogman’ Took a Revenge Story and Added a Touch of Buster Keaton
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “The story we took inspiration from was more focused on violence and revenge,” says director Matteo Garrone of his Italian Oscar submission
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‘Birds of Passage’ Directors Say They Found the Real Story of Narco Trafficking From the Women, Not the Men
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s very hard to see Pablo Escobar become a hero to a generation, because his process was really a process of destruction,” says director Ciro Guerra
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‘Border’ Director Ali Abbasi: Here’s How I Shot the Scene That Made Cannes Squirm
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Of course the troll sex was animalistic — “it would be strange if they were f—ing on a sofa with a whiskey in their hand,” says the Iranian-Swedish director
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How ‘Never Look Away’ Juggled Art, Love and the Madness of German History
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Our county, Germany, has been at the center of every craziness, of every madness, of every abomination of the 20th century,” says director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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Top 50 Film Schools of 2018 Ranked, From USC to ASU
TheWrap magazine: Who’s up, who’s down and who are the hot newcomers in TheWrap’s third annual ranking of the top U.S. schools for filmmaking, dealmaking and new media
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Inside Netflix’s Historic Upset of HBO for Most Emmy Nominations
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Quality and quantity are not mutually exclusive,” says Cindy Holland, Netflix’s head of original programming
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How ‘St. Elsewhere’ Star Christina Pickles Got Another Emmy Shot at Age 83 (Video)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: ‘When you’re old you have to be funny,” the veteran actress says of her role in the web series “Break a Hip”
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Trevor Noah’s First Thought Every Morning: ‘What Can We Talk About That’s Not Him?’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I wouldn’t mind the level of material or the quantity of material if it didn’t have such adverse effects on people’s lives,” says the Emmy-nominated “Daily Show” host
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How Jeff Daniels Landed 2 Emmy Nominations for Playing a Hero and a Villain: Both ‘Wildly Complex’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I never bought that I was a movie star,” the star of “The Looming Tower” and “Godless” says of his award-worthy second act on the small screen
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How ‘Ozark’ Star Jason Bateman ‘Lives Close to the Median’ Between Drama and Comedy
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It’s hard to differentiate between the comedic and the dramatic,” the actor-director says
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How Pasek and Paul Could Score an EGOT for Adding a Hanukkah Song to ‘A Christmas Story’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “‘We’re definitely going to write a klezmer jazz song where you play the violin,” Justin Paul remembers telling actress Ana Gasteyer
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Why ‘Westworld’ Season 2 Focuses on a ‘Woman Who Comes to Power’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It’s a thing we as a society are trying to navigate,” showrunner Lisa Joy says
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How Emmy Underdogs Kelly Jenrette and Melvin Jackson Jr. Turned Brief Roles Into 2 Unlikely Noms (Video)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I think we were equally surprised,” says Jenrette after she and her husband mounted long-shot campaigns for recognition
