Podcast

It Happened In Hollywood

From The Hollywood Reporter Film History, Film Interviews, TV & Film

On this podcast, Seth Abramovitch, senior writer at The Hollywood Reporter, takes you behind the scenes of the indelible pop culture moments that shaped Hollywood history — with special guests who were actually there. In a town where everything old is eventually new again, Seth gives listeners a front-row seat to the way things were. Welcome to IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD!

Theme music composed by: Paul Masvidal and Sean Malone

Film History chart
#9
Episodes
89
Releases
Weekly
Typical length
44 min
On air since
2018
Latest episode
2 months ago

Episodes

89 episodes, newest first

  1. Julie Klausner: ‘Difficult People’

    Show notes

    The showrunner and star discusses her groundbreaker sitcom in front of a live audience at Televerse.

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    49 min
  2. Richard Linklater: ‘Boyhood’

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    The season 9 finale sees the director tell Seth how he pulled off one of the most audacious feats in movie history.

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    52 min
  3. Nicolas Winding Refn: 'Drive'

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    The enigmatic director reflects on the breakthrough that turned a getaway driver into a pop culture icon.

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    30 min
  4. Guy Maddin: 'My Winnipeg'

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    The acclaimed filmmaker about memory, mythmaking, hometowns and turning personal history into cinematic gold.

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    45 min
  5. Mary Harron: ‘I Shot Andy Warhol’

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    The director on her extraordinary docudrama about the near-assassination of an art world superstar.

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    34 min
  6. John Badham: 'Saturday Night Fever'

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    The director remembers how a TV heartthrob, a light-up dance floor and a white suit ignited the disco era.

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    41 min
  7. Tom Courtenay: 'The Dresser’

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    The legendary British actor looks back on the film that earned him an Oscar nomination and a front-row seat to Albert Finney at his most ferocious.

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    35 min
  8. Jonathan Lynn: ‘Clue’

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    Seth sits down with the writer-director who turned a board game into one of Hollywood's greatest cult comedies.

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    43 min
  9. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer: ‘Splash’

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    The Imagine duo relay the David-vs.-Goliath tale of Hollywood’s dueling mermaid movies — minting a superstar out of Tom Hanks in the process.

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    47 min
  10. Eric Roberts: ‘Star 80’

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    The star of Bob Fosse’s final film unpacks the obsession, ambition and moral rot behind one of Hollywood’s darkest true crimes.

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    38 min
  11. Amy Heckerling: ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’

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    The director reveals how she transformed Cameron Crowe’s undercover reporting into a defining portrait of messy, horny, sun-bleached youth.

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    48 min
  12. Andrew McCarthy: ‘Pretty in Pink’

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    The reluctant heartthrob from John Hughes’ 1986 teen classic revisits Brat Pack mania and the last-minute ending that changed everything.

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    45 min
  13. Henry Thomas: ’E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’

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    The star of the beloved sci-fi film from 1982 looks back on how a tearful, instinctive audition won him screen immortality and childhood superstardom.

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    44 min
  14. Jane Alexander and Lynne Littman: ‘Testament’

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    The Oscar-nominated star and director of the 1983 nuclear war drama join Seth as the podcast kicks off a new season.

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    41 min
  15. Mira Nair: 'Salaam Bombay!'

    Episode 75

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    The writer-director joins Seth to share tales of the making of this gritty and entrancing tale of life in the slums of India.

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    36 min
  16. Larry Smith: 'Eyes Wide Shut'

    Episode 74

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    Cinematographer Larry Smith describes executing Stanley Kubrick’s exacting vision on what would be his final film.

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    52 min
  17. William Petersen: 'Manhunter'

    Episode 73

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    The star of Hollywood’s first take on Hannibal Lecter reveals the obsessive lengths gone to by Michael Mann to craft a procedural masterpiece.

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    41 min
  18. Adrian Lyne: ‘Jacob’s Ladder’

    Episode 72

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    The director revisits the making of his nightmarish 1990 vision of life after the battlefield starring Tim Robbins.

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    27 min
  19. Patty McCormack: ‘The Bad Seed’

    Episode 71

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    The star of the 1956 thriller that introduced the “evil child” genre joins Seth to retell the making of a horror classic.

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    57 min
  20. Philippe Rousselot: ‘Diva’

    Episode 70

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    The Oscar-winning cinematographer walks Seth through the making of the gorgeous cult French film from 1981.

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    41 min