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The Best Episodes of Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

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The Best Episodes of Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 2 Episode 3 - Comedy Actresses
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Comedy Actresses

    S2:E3

    TV's leading funny ladies – Rachel Bloom, Gina Rodriguez, Allison Janney, Niecy Nash, Lily Tomlin, Ilana Glazer – disclose the best advice they ever got, the moment they knew they wanted to become actors and their funniest fan interactions.

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  2. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 5 Episode 9 - Actresses
    9.0/10(92 votes)

    #2 - Actresses

    S5:E9

    Rebecca Ford, Renée Zellweger, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Lopez discuss the craft of acting.

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  3. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 2 Episode 1 - Drama Actresses
    8.8/10(75 votes)

    #3 - Drama Actresses

    S2:E1

    Six of the year's most sought after drama actresses engage in a candid conversation about sex scenes and nudity as they get older. Sarah Paulson, Julianna Margulies, Kerry Washington, Constance Zimmer, Kirsten Dunst, Regina King, and Jennifer Lopez discuss the advantages of working with female directors, the new landscape of television, and what their first big splurge was.

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  4. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 4 - Drama Actresses
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    #4 - Drama Actresses

    S3:E4

    Nicole Kidman ('Big Little Lies'), Jessica Lange ('Feud: Bette and Joan'), Chrissy Metz ('This Is Us'), Elisabeth Moss ('The Handmaid's Tale'), Oprah Winfrey ('The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks') and Reese Witherspoon ('Big Little Lies') talk about how they prepare for intense scenes and gender equality in Hollywood.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 4 Episode 10 - Actresses
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Actresses

    S4:E10

    Glenn Close, Lady Gaga, Kathryn Hahn, Nicole Kidman, Regina King and Rachel Weisz discuss the craft of acting.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 1 Episode 11 - Actresses
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #6 - Actresses

    S1:E11

    The year's most notable actresses join together for The Hollywood Reporter's Actress Oscar Roundtable - Brie Larson (Room), as well as 2016 best actress nominees Jennifer Lawrence (Joy), Cate Blanchett (Carol, Truth), and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years), 2016 supporting actress nominee Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs), and actresses Jane Fonda (Youth), Helen Mirren (Trumbo, Woman in Gold), and Carey Mulligan (Suffragette).

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  7. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 2 - Comedy Actresses
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Comedy Actresses

    S3:E2

    Pamela Adlon ('Better Things'), Minnie Driver ('Speechless'), America Ferrera ('Superstore'), Kathryn Hahn ('I Love Dick'), Issa Rae ('Insecure') and Emmy Rossum ('Shameless') talk about typecasting in Hollywood, male nudity vs. female nudity and their most embarrassing moments on set.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 3 - Drama Actors
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Drama Actors

    S3:E3

    Riz Ahmed ('The Night Of'), Sterling K. Brown ('This Is Us'), John Lithgow ('The Crown'), Ewan McGregor ('Fargo'), Billy Bob Thornton ('Goliath') and Jeffrey Wright ('Westworld') talk about what scenes they were nervous to approach and the process of letting a character go.

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  9. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 6 - Drama Showrunners
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Drama Showrunners

    S3:E6

    This season's 2017 Drama Showrunner Roundtable features Ava DuVernay ('Queen Sugar'), Ryan Murphy ('Feud: Bette and Joan'/'American Horror Story: Roanoke'), Noah Hawley ('Fargo'/'Legion'), Lisa Joy ('Westworld'), Jenji Kohan ('Orange is the New Black') and David E. Kelly ('Big Little Lies').

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 12 - Writers
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Writers

    S3:E12

    Scribes behind six of the season's most unusual scripts — including Darren Aronofsky (mother!), Anthony McCarten (Darkest Hour), Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) and Fatih Akin (In The Fade) — reveal the struggles and satisfactions of bringing their words to the screen ("Rule number one: Don't bore an audience") and say nothing is off limits (even porn).

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  11. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 4 Episode 1 - Comedy Actors
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Comedy Actors

    S4:E1

    Louie Anderson - "Baskets" (FX) Sean Hayes - "Will & Grace" (NBC) Marc Maron - "GLOW" (Netflix) Tracy Morgan - "The Last O.G." (TBS) Ray Romano - "Get Shorty" (Epix) Tony Shaloub - "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon)

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 10 - Actresses
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #12 - Actresses

    S3:E10

    Six top actresses — Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game), Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes), and Jennifer Lawrence (mother!)— open up about risky roles and how the industry's culture of abuse might finally be on the verge of change

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 14 - Actors Live Roundtable
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Actors Live Roundtable

    S3:E14

    In THR's first ever live roundtable, Bryan Cranston (Last Flag Flying), Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name), Robert Pattinson (Good Time), Diane Kruger (In The Fade), Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) and Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) sat down before a studio audience for The Hollywood Reporter's inaugural movie star summit about their craft, the cons of social media and how one ended up with a severed human foot.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 2 Episode 9 - Actors
    7.2/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Actors

    S2:E9

    Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water), Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Snowden) and Dev Patel (Lion) discuss how they go about researching roles, being typecast and what it's like working with celebrated directors.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 1 Episode 10 - Directors
    7.0/10(21 votes)

    #15 - Directors

    S1:E10

    The year's most notable directors join for The Hollywood Reporter's Writer Director Roundtable. The directors include Quentin Tarantino ('The Hateful Eight'), Tom Hooper ('The Danish Girl'), Alejandro G. Inarritu ('The Revenant'), Ridley Scott ('The Martian'), Danny Boyle ('Steve Jobs') and David O. Russell ('Joy').

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 1 - Comedy Actors
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Comedy Actors

    S3:E1

    Anthony Anderson ('Black-ish'), Kevin Bacon ('I Love Dick'), Ted Danson ('The Good Place'), Brian Tyree Henry ('Atlanta'), William H. Macy ('Shameless') and Kumail Nanjiani ('Silicon Valley') talk about tackling unlikable characters, what it's like making comedy in the current political climate and their proudest moments from their shows.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 5 - Comedy Showrunners
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Comedy Showrunners

    S3:E5

    2017 Comedy Showrunner Roundtable features the talented Gloria Calderon Kellett ('One Dat at a Time'), Scott Silveri ('Speechless'), Judd Apatow ('Girls', 'Crashing', 'Love'), Phoebe Waller-Bridge ('Fleabag'), David Mandel ('Veep') and Kenya Barris ('Black-ish')

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 11 - Producers
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Producers

    S3:E11

    THR's Roundtable Series kicks off with superproducers including Jason Blum (Get Out), Eric Fellner (Darkest Hour, Baby Driver, Victoria & Abdul), Seth Rogen (The Disaster Artist) and Ridley Scott (All The Money in the World, Blade Runner 2049) debating tough decisions, surprise successes and sexual harassment in Hollywood.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 13 - Cinematographers
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Cinematographers

    S3:E13

    The lensing experts behind 'Blade Runner 2049,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Mudbound,' 'The Post,' 'Roman J. Israel, Esq.,' 'The Shape of Water' and 'Suburbicon' open up about their craft and finding a balance with their directors.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 5 Episode 10 - Actors
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Actors

    S5:E10

    Stephen Galloway, Adam Driver, Adam Sandler, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Jamie Foxx, Shia LaBeouf discuss the craft of acting.

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  21. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 4 Episode 9 - Actors
    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #21 - Actors

    S4:E9

    Mahershala Ali, Chadwick Boseman, Timothée Chalamet, Richard E. Grant, Hugh Jackman and Viggo Mortensen discuss the craft of acting.

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  22. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 3 Episode 8 - Directors
    6.8/10(15 votes)

    #22 - Directors

    S3:E8

    Six top filmmakers — also including Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049), Angelina Jolie (First They Killed My Father) and Joe Wright (Darkest Hour) — open up about choosing the right projects ("You don't want to end up in a bad marriage"), firing staff and what it feels like to direct a movie that bombs: "People think you move on, but you don't."

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 5 Episode 8 - Directors
    6.5/10(10 votes)

    #23 - Directors

    S5:E8

    Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Todd Philipps (Joker), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes) and Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) discuss their films.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 5 Episode 2 - Comedy Actors
    6.4/10(10 votes)

    #24 - Comedy Actors

    S5:E2

    Sacha Baron Cohen, Jim Carrey, Ted Danson, Don Cheadle, Henry Winkler and Timothy Simons discuss the craft of acting.

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  25. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Season 2 Episode 8 - Directors
    5.9/10(14 votes)

    #25 - Directors

    S2:E8

    The directors of this year's most acclaimed films, Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Mira Nair (Queen of Katwe), Oliver Stone (Snowden), Denzel Washington (Fences), talk about the filmmaking process.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Comedy Actresses" is the best rated episode of "Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/10/2016. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Actresses".