Awards

Jurnee Smollett

Emmy Nominee Jurnee Smollett on Finding Joy in Purpose

“With Lovecraft Country, the exhaustion was there yet I felt energized everyday too,” Jurnee Smollett explains. “That’s just the artist’s brain, that we’re wired to be in that cycle. One feeds the other; the exhaustion feeds the energy.”
John Lithgow as E.B. Jonathan in HBO's PERRY MASON.

John Lithgow: Perry Mason, Writing, and the Indelible Mark of Shakespeare

In season one of HBO’s Perry Mason, John Lithgow is magnetic as E.B. Jonathan, the lawyer and mentor to Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys). The six-time Emmy winner morphs into the role to great critical acclaim, showcasing a fragility in the declining attorney as we learn the “unsettling” details of his life.