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After denouncing gender inequality in the industry in 2017, Nicole Kidman publicly pledged to shoot with a female director every 18 months. Eight years later, she has gone far beyond this promise, having already collaborated with 19 female directors. Listen to 2025 Women In Motio ... Show More

Listen to Dame Donna Langley, Chief Content Officer of NBCUniversal and 2024 Women In Motion Award winner, on the importance of supporting women directors and the powerful female friendship at the heart of Wicked, now a 10-time Oscar-nominated film. Women In Motion is a program b ... Show More

Ahead of the 97th Academy Awards, listen to Best Supporting Actress nominee Zoe Saldaña as she reflects on her role in Emilia Perez, the power of representation in cinema, and the need to create space for women and people of color in the industry. Women In Motion is a program by ... Show More

Francine Stock meets Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett to discuss Ocean's 8 and their plans to tackle gender inequality in the film industry. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher argues that all-female reboots smack of women-only train carriages, and that women should have their own storie ... Show More

In front of an audience at Chapman University, the trailblazing actress, producer, director and activist reflects on the unlikely path to her breakthrough role in the indie film 'Real Women Have Curves'; becoming the first Latina ever to win the best actress in a comedy series Em ... Show More

The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood (Beacon, 2020) by Naomi McDougall Jones is a brutally honest look at the systemic exclusion of women in film—an industry with massive cultural influence—and how, in response, women are making space ... Show More

Susan Sarandon, the actor whose five decade career has earned her six Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award for Best Actress, joins the pod to talk about her early days as a God-fearing Catholic kid in New Jersey. She details the unexpected and serendipitous path that l ... Show More

Sean Baker made Oscar history, becoming the first person to win four Academy Awards for directing, editing, writing and producing a single film, Anora. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh joins Samira to look at this year's Oscar winners and what they say about cinema today. The RSC's co-artisti ... Show More

Today on Work in Progress, Sophia is joined by Natalie Portman (@natalieportman)! Natalie is known worldwide as an Academy Award winning actress, director, producer, and activist. Born in Israel, she immigrated to the US with her parents at the age of 3 and began auditioning when ... Show More

In front of an audience at Chapman University, the actress, singer, songwriter, businesswoman and philanthropist reflects on child stardom, the hurdles of transitioning to an adult career and her 2024 acting gigs, which have brought her, respectively, a piece of the Cannes Film F ... Show More

Reem Al Habib is a renowned Saudi Arabian actress and director, celebrated for her significant contributions to the film industry in the region. She is best known for her roles in popular productions such as Takki, The Matchmaker, and Kidnap.Reem has made history as one of the or ... Show More

Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theatre, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles, yet with her US citizenship scrutinised due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant ... Show More

Look, I don’t like to brag but in case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve got Kate Winslet on How To Fail this week. ACTUAL KATE WINSLET! The one and only! And oh my goodness, what an incredible guest she is: acutely intelligent, funny and brilliantly forthright. We covered so much ground ... Show More