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If you’re not familiar with T’Nia Miller just yet, you're in luck! Not only is she phenomenal in The Haunting of Bly Manor which just dropped on Netflix, but she’s also got loads of other must-see titles on her resume including Sex Education, Years and Years, and more. Hear all about those titles, Miller's experience in drama school, what it was like landing a role on Bly Manor, and a few spoiler details in this edition of Collider Ladies Night!

Katherine Langford has already accomplished quite a bit since 13 Reasons Why arrived on Netflix in 2017, making her a household name and earning her a Golden Globe nomination. She starred in one of my personal favorites of 2018, Love, Simon, Rian Johnson’s smash hit, Knives Out, and also just headlined the new Netflix series Cursed. Now she adds yet another wildly impressive title to her resume with the release of Spontaneous. The movie marks Brian Duffield’s feature directorial debut and stars Langford as Mara, a high school senior who manages to find love right when her classmates start exploding. Is the condition contained to a few students? Is it contagious? Will it affect the entire senior class? No one knows, forcing them to live as though every day could be their last. Hear all about Spontaneous as well as Langford's experience working on Knives Out, Cursed and more in this edition of Collider Ladies Night! Spontaneous arrived on VOD on October 6.

Geraldine Viswanathan broke out big time with Blockers in 2018 and even though that was her very first major Hollywood production, her talent was already undeniable. Cut to 2020 and the release of her newest feature, The Broken Hearts Gallery. Again, it was already abundantly clear that Viswanathan was mighty talented, but Broken Hearts Gallery shows off next-level comedic sensibilities, confidence and the commanding screen presence necessary to lead a feature. Viswanathan set the bar pretty high right out the gate with Blockers, but watching her hone those skills as she moves from project to project solidifies her boundless potential. Check out this edition of Collider Ladies Night to hear all about her earliest inspirations, booking Blockers, working with Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney on Bad Education, jumping into her first drama for Hala, her run on the TBS series Miracle Workers, and so much more!

If you’re looking for a mood booster right now, we’ve got “sunshine personified” right here for you - Gabourey Sidibe. While chatting with Antebellum directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz on The Witching Hour, they noted that Sidibe has a beauty, soul and spirit that radiates out to everyone around her. It’s something you can feel in much of her work, on her Instagram page, and now, having had the pleasure of chatting with Sidibe for 40 minutes about her journey in Hollywood, I'm lucky enough to say I felt it firsthand. Check out this edition of Collider Ladies Night with Sidibe to hear all about her experience making Precious, what happened after she was nominated for an Academy Award, her journey working on American Horror Story, what it was like seeing Janelle Monae command the set of Antebellum, and so much more!

There’s a college professor out there who deserves a very big thank you because that professor was instrumental to Carrie Coon’s journey to Hollywood. Coon has already given us loads to celebrate including a Tony Award nominated performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, phenomenal films like Gone Girl and The Post, and also some standout TV series, one of the most unforgettable of the bunch being The Leftovers. But, back in college, Coon wasn’t set on pursuing a career in acting. In fact, her career path could have taken her in eight other directions. If you'd like to hear more about that, Coon’s transition from stage to screen, what it was like making her feature debut in a David Fincher movie, what to expect from the upcoming Julian Fellow’s series, The Gilded Age, and so much more, check out this edition of Collider Ladies Night! Coon's latest movie, The Nest, hits select theaters on September 18th and arrives on VOD on November 17th.

Erin Moriarty has quite a bit to celebrate right now with the big debut of The Boys Season 2. Not only does the bold and wildly entertaining show deliver big in round two overall, but Moriarty gets the opportunity to stand out even more as Annie figures out how she’s going to handle what’s really going down at Vought. On this edition of Collider Ladies Night, Moriarty talks about watching movies with her dad as a kid, getting her start in musical theater, making The Kings of Summer, powering through some work lulls, two key Starlight scenes from the first three episodes of the new season, and so much more!

Emmy Raver-Lampman is excellent in Umbrella Academy Season 1, but just wait until you see how much she excels in Season 2. In all honesty, I was floored when I saw Allison’s storyline in Season 2 and how Raver-Lampman makes the absolute most of it. But, when I got the chance to speak to her for Collider Ladies Night and got a clearer sense of her journey from Marymount Manhattan College to Netflix star, her ability to shine more and more like that made so much sense. We’re talking about a talent who made her Broadway debut before graduating college, starred in a number of national tours, was part of the original ensemble of one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time, Hamilton, and then seamlessly made the transition to starring in a hit Netflix show. Raver-Lampman is oozing with talent and has proven time and time again, that she’s going to keep taking it to the next level from project to project - or, in the case of Umbrella Academy, from season to season. The second season of the show picks up right where Season 1 left off, in a sense. Five (Aidan Gallagher) does manage to time travel with all of the Hargreeves siblings to escape Vanya’s (Ellen Page) 2019 apocalypse, but he brings them back to the 1960s and scatters them all throughout a three-year period. So now Allison is all alone in the segregated South. It’s quite the storyline to take on but Raver-Lampman excelled big time with it, turning Umbrella Academy into a highly entertaining series that can also inspire positive change in the process. Check out Raver-Lampman’s full episode of Collider Ladies Night to hear all about her days of being a rule-breaker in New York City, how she scored her Broadway debut, what it was like being part of the original cast of Hamilton, tackling Allison’s storyline in Season 2 of Umbrella Academy and how she hopes they’ll use the lessons Allison learned in Season 3.

I hope you’re ready for another tour de force performance from Yvonne Strahovski because that’s exactly what she delivers in Stateless which is now available to watch on Netflix. In this edition of Collider Ladies Night, Strahovski looks back on her journey to Hollywood, beginning with her penchant for spoofing commercials as a kid. After making the move to the US, Strahovski would go on to work on Chuck for its five-season run, see Dexter through to its controversial conclusion, and score Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her work in The Handmaid’s Tale, and then some. Now that list of accomplishments grows via Stateless. Hear all about that and more in this episode of Collider Ladies Night with Yvonne Strahovski!

Between her performance in Relic and everything she’s accomplished over the course of her career, it’s tough to imagine Emily Mortimer having been an extremely shy kid who feared being called on in class. Over the years, Mortimer has worked with some of the best of the best in the business like Martin Scorsese and Wes Craven, she wrote and starred in her own show with good friend Dolly Wells, and now she’s part of the powerhouse ensemble in the phenomenal IFC Midnight release, Relic. Hear all about her experience shedding her shyness, the career-changing pep talk she got from husband Alessandro Nivola, working on Scream 3 with Wes Craven, working with Martin Scorsese and so much more in this edition of Collider Ladies Night!

Listen to Collider.com editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub's 90 minute conversation with Derek Cianfrance, director of Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, and the HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True. Cianfrance explains in great detail the ups and downs of crafting the six-hour series, starring Mark Ruffalo as twin brothers.

Check out Gayle Rankin’s full episode of Collider Ladies Night to hear all about her experience first signing on for HBO’s Perry Mason, what it was like starring in the show alongside heavyweights like Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow, and why she thinks the series will appeal to fans of the source material and newcomers as well. On top of that, she also detailed her journey to scoring her very first gigs, what it was like working on such a big set piece in The Greatest Showman, the key to understanding Sheila when she first signed on for GLOW, and so much more.

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga director David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) talks about filming in Iceland, creating the pop songs, alternate cuts, and working with stars Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams and Dan Stevens.

Ladies Night with Anna Camp (The Lovebirds, Pitch Perfect, Perfect Harmony, True Blood) It wasn’t until I started prepping for this episode of Collider Ladies Night that I fully realized how much Anna Camp has accomplished over the years and how much she’s contributed to a number of iconic franchises. I have a feeling I’m not alone with this, but I first took note of her work after catching her as Sarah Newlin on True Blood, but in addition to that unforgettable HBO series, Camp has also appeared on The Office, Mad Men, The Good Wife, and then some. And even when it comes to short-lived shows that didn’t get the love they deserved, like let’s say Amazon’s Good Girls Revolt, Camp still delivered material that made a long-lasting impression, with fans still spreading love for the series long after it ended. All of this and we haven’t even mentioned Camp’s work on the big screen yet! Of course the Pitch Perfect franchise made an indelible impression on many, but Camp is currently in the midst of quite the string of new release including two Netflix movies and another feature film that’s bound to show off significant range for the star who’s become extremely well known for her comedy chops, playing big personalities, and also nailing accents. Clearly there’s a lot to cover here so get ready for a very fully episode of Collider Ladies Night! Camp explained why she once thought she’d just stick to the New York theater scene and how her first pilot season changed that dramatically, she recalled her experience auditioning for Mad Men and True Blood, and whether or not there’s interest in making more Pitch Perfect films. On top of that, get ready to hear all about Camp’s new movies including The Lovebirds which you can watch right now on Netflix, Here Awhile which is set to hit VOD on June 9th, and Desperados which is schedule to drop on Netflix on July 3rd.

Welcome back for a brand new episode of Collider Ladies Night! If you’ve got any interest in comedy, no matter the format - sketch, film, television, scripted, improvisation, you name it! - this episode is a must watch because we’re putting the spotlight on Lauren Lapkus. She first started gaining notoriety in the industry with Are You There, Chelsea? starring opposite Laura Prepon and soon thereafter it was on to the groundbreaking Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black, but there was a lot that came before that. Lapkus is here to pave the way from scoring a very unexpected role in a children’s theatre production of Beauty and the Beast to her latest milestone, getting her first starring role in a big feature, the new Netflix movie The Wrong Missy.

If you caught the clip we recently shared from this episode of Collider Ladies Night, you know that it took Malin Akerman some time to start carving her own path in the industry. She said, “I was truly a follower,” and that she took whatever came her way. But now she's using that past experience to take hold of career, to take projects that speak to her creatively and also to change Hollywood for the better. And that right there makes her the perfect guest for Collider Ladies Night. Akerman's resume includes a little bit of everything from comedies like The Heartbreak Kid and Couples Retreat to big budget studio films like Watchmen, acclaimed shows like Billions, and so much more. The latest to join that growing list? To the Stars, a coming-of-age drama that takes place in 1960s Oklahoma. It stars Kara Hayward as Iris Deerborne, a school outcast who finally makes a friend when Liana Liberato's Maggie Richmond moves to town. At first, it's a dream come true; Maggie showers Iris in nothing but love and support while trying to play catch-up on all the school fun Iris missed out on. The closer they grow, the more they realize how much they really do need each other to break through external pressures and embrace who they really are. Akerman's work on To the Stars playing Maggie's mother may be all wrapped up now that the movie is available to watch On Demand, but that certainly doesn't mean things are slowing down for Akerman whatsoever. She's got two other films cooking, and she's not just acting in them; she's producing them as well! Akerman is making the move behind the lens for Nicol Paone's feature directorial debut, Friendsgiving, and she's also getting her hands dirty in Chick Fight, which Akerman described as Bridesmaids meets Fight Club. Want to take a walk down memory lane with Akerman and hear all about her journey from wanting to be a child psychologist to her first acting gigs, the lessons learned from working on Watchmen, her future goals, and so much more? We've got you covered with this new episode of Collider Ladies Night!