In honor of Dear White People, whose fourth and final season is now available on Netflix, star Logan Browning joins the show (35:05) to talk about how the series has represented a diverse range of perspectives and backgrounds among its student

Justin Chon – “Documenting the Undocumented”

Sep 15th, 2021 1h 8m

This week we're discussing undocumented immigrant narratives with two very special guests. Pulitzer-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of the media advocacy nonprofit Define American, joins us as the ideal expert who can speak

Asia Kate Dillon – “Beyond the Binary”

Sep 8th, 2021 1h 43m

This week we'll be learning about non-binary gender identity and exploring how film and TV represent characters that are neither exclusively male or female. This episode is inspired by Billions star Asia Kate Dillon, who will join us in the lat

Simu Liu - "(Not) Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting"

Sep 1st, 2021 1h 43m

This week's theme is a special twofer: We're tackling the martial artist stereotype, and its close relationship to portrayals of Asian masculinity in Western pop culture. Our special guest is none other than Simu Liu (48:33), star of Shang-Chi

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – “Horror Noire”

Aug 25th, 2021 1h 20m

Candyman star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II joins the show (47:34) to discuss how the franchise’s first all-Black creative team updated the horror classic to tell stories about how American society makes monsters of Black men and other truths about the

Marlee Matlin on ‘CODA’ and Authentic Deaf Portrayals

Aug 18th, 2021 1h 34m

In the second season premiere, “Amplifying Deaf Representation,” Marlee Matlin joins the show (1:01:13) to share about her unparalleled career as a deaf actor, from her Oscar-winning screen debut in 1986’s Children of a Lesser God to her latest

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Hollywood Remixed is back for Season 2!

Aug 9th, 2021 56s

Hollywood Remixed is back! We are thrilled to announce that our podcast, which takes a topical approach to inclusion and representation in Hollywood, is coming back for a second season. Each episode, we'll take a deep dive into a single theme –

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Introducing 'Must Watch: Netflix Edition'

Jan 11th, 2021 1m 4s

Each week, Observer senior entertainment reporter Brandon Katz and Hollywood Reporter contributor Jean Bentley highlight the new Netflix titles they're excited about. Recent guests: Daniel Fienberg from The Hollywood Reporter, Joanna Robinson f

Stephanie Beatriz – "Nine-Nine Characters but a Latina (Usually) Ain't One"

Dec 25th, 2019 1h 4m

In the first season finale of Hollywood Remixed, the Rebeccas turn the spotlight on the most disproportionately underrepresented onscreen demographic: Latinas. While they constitute about 20 percent of American women in real life, on television

John Boyega - "Episode VII: RAAACE IN SPAAAAACE"

Dec 18th, 2019 53m 32s

Onscreen, outer space is often packed with imaginative characters that come in literally all colors – but how does real-life racial diversity factor into these stories? In the seventh episode of Hollywood Remixed, the Rebeccas explore the way s

Born This Way – "Defying Limitations in the Face of Cognitive Disability"

Dec 11th, 2019 44m 23s

In a year that has seen critical acclaim for the coming-of-age film The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring former Special Olympics athlete Zack Gottsagen, Hollywood is learning that there is a place in the industry for people living with intellectu

Marja-Lewis Ryan - “Generation Q: Talking TV Lesbian Evolution with the Showrunner of the New L Word”

Dec 4th, 2019 56m 23s

Lesbian representation on television has come a long way since TV’s first same-sex kiss between two women, on a 1991 episode of NBC’s L.A. Law. Just look at Ellen DeGeneres in 1997, whose simultaneous sitcom and real-life coming-out made headli

Lorene Scafaria – "Exposing Hollywood's Stripper Tropes with the Director of Hustlers"

Nov 27th, 2019 1h

Strippers and exotic dancers have been a rite of passage on many a major actress' filmography, from Joanne Woodward (in 1963's The Stripper) to Jennifer Aniston (in 2013's We're the Millers). But most of these portrayals tend to depict the prof

William Jackson Harper – “Did I Do That? Revenge of the (Black) Nerd”

Nov 20th, 2019 49m 50s

Pop culture has traditionally not been kind to nerds in general – they're usually the butt of the joke, considered romantically undesirable and portrayed as social misfits. And black nerds – both onscreen and in real life – often contend with a

Sterling K. Brown – “From Huxtable to Pearson: Hollywood’s Best Black Fathers”

Nov 13th, 2019 50m 30s

While the news media has created a narrative that often characterizes black men as absentee or deadbeat from the household (statistics dispute this narrative), film and television have, over the years, created many memorable — and very present

Henry Golding – “Long Duk Who? The Rise of the Asian Leading Man”

Nov 6th, 2019 33m 11s

Although Asian men have existed in Western cinema since Sessue Hayakawa in the silent era, they have often been maligned as geeks, Fu Manchus – and sometimes annoying neighbors in yellowface. The Rebeccas trace the lineage of Asian male actors

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Season 1 Premieres November 6th!

Oct 29th, 2019 1m 13s

”Hollywood Remixed” is a topical, diversity-focused podcast from The Hollywood Reporter, hosted by Rebecca Sun and Rebecca Ford. Each episode will be dedicated to a single theme – a type of character or story that has been traditionally underre