Carol“I remember very clearly the day when we shot the scene when Carol and Therese first have lunch together. It was such an extraordinary scene, and we got to do it in these long takes. It was our first real back and forth scene with dialogue,” says Mara, who plays ... More

Carol“At the premiere in Cannes, we were nervous, but that really was an amazing night. I felt like I was in a fairytale,” the director recalls. “There was a lot of advance word of mouth on Carol, so I felt anxious about the film being looked at and all of ... More

Room“We had been inside this tiny, 10-foot-by-10-foot room that had been built for us for a month. It had been hard being inside that room, and everybody was like, ‘I can’t wait until we escape,’” explains Larson, who stars in Room, a harrowing account of a young woman and her ... More

The Big Short “The big moment for me was when I first watched the rough assembly of the movie, which our editor did an amazing job with,” the film’s director Adam McKay says. “I’ve never seen one that played as well as this. Usually it’s a mess, with long parts of ... More

Son of Saul “The first time we were shown around the set—this is the gas chamber, this is the crematorium, this is the bunker—was the first concrete moment when I felt it was going to be alright,” says the Son of Saul star. “It somehow felt familiar, and like this was ... More

The Danish Girl  “There is a scene in the film, in which my character Lili is still living as Einar, and she goes out in Paris to a peep show,” Redmayne says of his role as a transgender woman in 1920s Europe. “There are men watching this woman dance, and Lili ... More

The Danish Girl  “A defining moment for me on The Danish Girl was Alicia Vikander’s London screen test with Eddie. It was the first time I saw Alicia bring Gerda to life. But it was also the first time I saw Eddie as Lili Elbe,” says Hooper, the film’s director. “I ... More

The Big Short “There aren’t any times when I sit back after a take and think, I nailed it! I always had the sense that if I felt satisfied at the end of shooting a scene that I should retire right then,” Carell says of the film The Big Short, which ... More

Lydia Hearst’s done time on catwalks around the world and has lent her name to any number of worthwhile philanthropic causes, but what truly excites the 31-year-old actress is blood. Well, fake blood at least. Hearst, who was recently honored as a Rising Star by the Napa Valley Film Festival, has a ... More

If you ask jewelry designer and historian Aja Raden to name one of the big loves of her life, she will, without question, say jewels. “As a little kid, I would take anything shiny—even fake jewelry—and stash them away in treasure boxes,” she admits. “It’s been a singular obsession of mine ... More