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Actor, producer, and TeaTime Pictures co-founder Dakota Johnson has spent the past six years building a creative partnership with her best friend, Ro Donnelly. Earlier this year, the duo joined Kering at the Cannes Film Festival for a Women In Motion Talk, where they reflected on ... Show More

Listen to award-winning actress Charlotte Gainsbourg as she reflects on growing up in the spotlight, working with her mother and turning to comedy to find joy during her Kering Women In Motion Talk at the 78th Festival de Cannes which marked the 10th anniversary of Kering’s Women ... Show More

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

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

In front of an audience at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, the actress, now marking 25 years in the business, reflects on escaping from a painful childhood through acting, how she wound up the queen of the sci-fi blockbuster and why it meant so much to her to be given the chance ... Show More