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Rebel Wilson has waded into one of the great acting representation debates of our time. The Pitch Perfect star, who is engaged to a woman, branded the idea that "only straight actors can play straight roles and gay actors can play gay roles" as "total nonsense.” She was responding to a question…

The Directors Guild of America on Thursday unveiled a new Feature Film Diversity & Inclusion report, which spotlights the limited progress that’s been made in the feature space over the last five years, when it comes to the hiring of women and people of color, in stark contrast to what’s transpired in…

In the past few years, Hollywood has been confronted by the MeToo movement, OscarsSoWhite, Black Lives Matter and, presently, members of the trans community calling out what they see as transphobic depictions of themselves in films, on television and in the media. But there is another group traditionally…

UPDATED, 2:00 PM: NBCUniversal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion group has expanded its Spellcheck for Bias partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, in an effort to further bolster authentic onscreen representation and casting opportunities for underrepresented talent. Spellcheck for Bias…

We’ve chatted with Oscar winners, Emmy winners, industry disruptors, rising stars, trailblazers and everything in between but after 154 episodes, Dino-Ray Ramos and Amanda N’Duka are bidding farewell to the New Hollywood Podcast. On November 17, 2017, we launched the New Hollywood Podcast with actor Sinqua Walls to…

From theater to TV to film, Wunmi Mosaku has an extensive resume of high-profile projects to show off her phenomenal acting chops. More specifically, she has been seen in numerous tentpole features (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them), acclaimed series (Black Mirror), thoughtful…

The biblical story of Jesus is considered by many “the greatest story ever told”. In fact, it is so much so that there was a whole movie about the big J titled The Greatest Story Ever Told. Well, if there were a Twitter equivalent of the greatest story ever told, it would definitely be the Janicza Bravo-directed Zola…

Sierra Teller Ornelas has introduced us into the world of Rutherford Falls and we are totally on board. The freshman Peacock comedy marks a reunion between Ornelas and Michael Shur who previously worked on Brooklyn Nine-Nine together. Ornelas’ resume also includes work on acclaimed comedies such as Happy Endings, Split…

When Sung Kang stopped by Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast, we learned a lot about his return to the Fast and Furious franchise with F9, which Universal will release in theaters June 25. He also shared a lot about his time in Hollywood. First thing’s first, he introduced us to his dog, Daeji who is a star all by…

If you have seen Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime Video, you probably already had your breath taken away by its beauty, riveted by the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for fiction. There is one other major takeaway from the series…

It’s a very In The Heights week for Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast. Earlier this week, we had star Anthony Ramos as a guest and, in a bonus episode, we welcome In The Heights director Jon M. Chu as well as the music man who created the original Tony-winning musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda. In the Heights, which opens in…

Although many may know Anthony Ramos from playing John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in the Tony award-winning Broadway force known as Hamilton, the actor and musician has been working and grinding appearing in features such as White Girl, Patti Cake$, Monsters and Men, Trolls World Tour as well as TV series Will and…