Oprah Winfrey, Riz Ahmed, Millie Bobby Brown Among Variety’s Sixth Season of ‘Actors on Actors’ on PBS

Erik Anderson March 31, 2017

Oprah Winfrey, Riz Ahmed and Millie Bobby Brown will chat about their craft for Variety and PBS this May

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Variety and PBS SoCal have announced the lineup for the sixth installment of the Emmy award-winning series “Variety Studio: Actors on Actors.” The 5th season aired in January and featured this year’s Oscars contenders.

The show will feature one-on-one conversations between this year’s Emmy contenders. Clips from the season, presented by Shutterstock, will be available to watch on Variety.com starting at the end of May.

This season’s featured conversations include a reunion between Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor (who starred in 2001’s Moulin Rouge! together) and Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld) with Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), inevitably talking about growing up as a child actor in Hollywood.

Oprah Winfrey (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) with Thandie Newton (Westworld)
Sarah Jessica Parker (Divorce) with Michelle Pfeiffer (The Wizard of Lies)
Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies) with Ewan McGregor (Fargo)
Brit Marling (The OA) with Issa Rae (Insecure)
Riz Ahmed (The Night Of) with Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Anthony Anderson (Black-ish) with Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang Theory)
Minnie Driver (Speechless) with Christine Baranski (The Good Fight)
Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) with Constance Zimmer (UnREAL)
Giovanni Ribisi (Sneaky Pete) with Kaitlin Olson (The Mick)
Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) with Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld)
Sterling K. Brown (This is Us) with Pamela Adlon (Better Things)
John Lithgow (The Crown) with Kevin Bacon (I Love Dick)
Milo Ventimiglia (This is Us) with Freida Pinto (Guerrilla)

“In its sixth season, Variety is proud to be partnering once again with PBS SoCal in our annual Actors on Actors series – showcasing the top talent from the best new television programs,” said Variety‘s CRO and Group Publisher Michelle Sobrino-Stearns.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.