Latest Underrepresentation Podcast Episodes
Logan Browning – “From School Daze to Dear White People: The Different World of Black College Narratives”
Hollywood Remixed - September 22, 2021 10:31 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn 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 body, and also to share a little bit about her own co...
Justin Chon – “Documenting the Undocumented”
Hollywood Remixed - September 15, 2021 10:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis 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 both to the experience of living in this country with...
Asia Kate Dillon – “Beyond the Binary”
Hollywood Remixed - September 08, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis 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 latter half of the show (57:23) to talk about their grou...
Simu Liu - "(Not) Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting"
Hollywood Remixed - September 01, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis 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 and the Legend of the Ten Rings, out exclusively in t...
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – “Horror Noire”
Hollywood Remixed - August 25, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsCandyman 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 structural violence of gentrification. THR contribut...
Marlee Matlin on ‘CODA’ and Authentic Deaf Portrayals
Hollywood Remixed - August 18, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn 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 performance as the mother of a hearing daughter in w...
Hollywood Remixed is back for Season 2!
Hollywood Remixed - August 09, 2021 10:00 - 56 seconds ★★★★ - 22 ratingsHollywood 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 – a type of storyline or identity that has traditional...
Introducing 'Must Watch: Netflix Edition'
Hollywood Remixed - January 11, 2021 11:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 22 ratingsEach 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 from Vanity Fair, and Megan Vick from TV Guide. Clic...
Stephanie Beatriz – "Nine-Nine Characters but a Latina (Usually) Ain't One"
Hollywood Remixed - December 25, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn 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 they represent 7 percent of women with dialogue (and...
John Boyega - "Episode VII: RAAACE IN SPAAAAACE"
Hollywood Remixed - December 18, 2019 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 22 ratingsOnscreen, 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 sci-fi has dealt with race, from actors of color being...
Born This Way – "Defying Limitations in the Face of Cognitive Disability"
Hollywood Remixed - December 11, 2019 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn 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 intellectual and developmental disabilities. This hasn't always...
Marja-Lewis Ryan - “Generation Q: Talking TV Lesbian Evolution with the Showrunner of the New L Word”
Hollywood Remixed - December 04, 2019 14:16 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 22 ratingsLesbian 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 headlines around the globe (including the cover of Time mag...
Lorene Scafaria – "Exposing Hollywood's Stripper Tropes with the Director of Hustlers"
Hollywood Remixed - November 27, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsStrippers 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 profession as a last resort for desperate women – or simp...
William Jackson Harper – “Did I Do That? Revenge of the (Black) Nerd”
Hollywood Remixed - November 20, 2019 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 22 ratingsPop 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 an additional misperception: the insinuation or accusa...
Sterling K. Brown – “From Huxtable to Pearson: Hollywood’s Best Black Fathers”
Hollywood Remixed - November 13, 2019 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 22 ratingsWhile 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 — father figures. In this week's episode, The Rebecca...
Henry Golding – “Long Duk Who? The Rise of the Asian Leading Man”
Hollywood Remixed - November 06, 2019 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 22 ratingsAlthough 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 in Hollywood, from Bruce Lee’s enduring (and even pos...
Season 1 Premieres November 6th!
Hollywood Remixed - October 29, 2019 19:20 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 22 ratings”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 underrepresented or misrepresented in pop culture ...
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