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Academy Award-winning actress Nia Vardalos is also a screenwriter and producer. Best known for her writing of and acting in the hit film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, she has also written and appeared in Larry Crowne with Tom Hanks and I Hate Valentine’s Day. In this interview, Vardalos talks about her hope to do Broadway, her marriage to actor Ian Gomez, family dynamics, and her advocacy for women’s roles in Hollywood.

An actor best known for his role on the hit drama series Mad Men, Slattery’s other starring roles have included the TV shows Homefront, Desperate Housewives, and movie roles where he played Dwight Eisenhower in the biopic Churchhill, and also Iron Man 2, Ant-Man, and Captain America. Slattery’s a mainstay on the stage and he talks about performing nude and behind-the-scenes stories about the auditioning process for screen and stage.

Miriam Shor is an award-winning actress whose star began to shine on stage in 1998 when she played Yitzak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Shor’s impressive resume covers stage (The Wild Party, Scarcity), TV (The Americans, The Good Wife) and movies (Bedazzled, Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Here, she talks growing up in America and Italy, her early acting aspirations through school, and the successes and failures of being an actress.

American actor Lucas Hedges is best known for playing Patrick Chandler in Manchester by the Sea (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. His screen, stage, and TV credits also include Moonrise Kingdom, Kill the Messenger, Lady Bird, and The Slap. In this interview, he talks about wanting to act since he was a young child, the ability to cry on camera or stage, and how he doesn’t have social media even though he’s a millennial.