Before Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder) became an EGOT-winning actor, she was an observer. Her work takes... more

An outspoken advocate for working families, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has made a career out of taking on Wall Street,... more

“Everything’s changed,” says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. “I’ve changed, and every book is a different person.” It’s true: in the... more

Jenny Slate returns today for her fourth appearance on the program. We discuss how this role in the new FX... more

Actor, writer, director, and producer Seth Rogen came up in an age of abundance—a Hollywood that made big-budget comedies with... more

In their new book, Abundance, journalists Ezra Klein (The New York Times) and Derek Thompson offer a hopeful vision for... more

From Mean Girls to Mamma Mia! to First Reformed, Amanda Seyfried has repeatedly displayed her versatility as a performer. Today, we... more

What does photography need to do now? Artist Tyler Mitchell has been asking (and attempting to answer) that question since... more

In celebration of Oscar Sunday, our conversation with actor Monica Barbaro. Her portrayal of Joan Baez in the Bob Dylan biopic, A... more

In the lead-up to Oscar Sunday, our conversation with actor, writer, and director Jesse Eisenberg. At the top, we unpack... more

One week from Oscar Sunday, we’re joined by Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross. At the top, RaMell describes the formal... more

A celebration of 50 years of Saturday Night Live, featuring stories from Bill Hader, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Jason Reitman. Find... more

For more than a decade, Chris Hayes has been one of our most incisive political thinkers. He joins us this... more

Actor Mikey Madison has delivered the performance of the season with her star-making turn in Anora. She joins us this... more

From The Walking Dead to Minari to Beef, Steven Yeun has become one of the most singular performers in Hollywood today. With his... more

David Lynch was an artist in every sense of the word. Rest in peace to the legendary filmmaker, who passed... more

Writer Emily Witt (“Health and Safety: A Breakdown”) has spent the past two weeks on the ground covering the Los... more

This week, we revisit a soulful conversation around climate change and the restorative power of nature with author Richard Powers.... more

Writer Jia Tolentino (The New Yorker) became a literary sensation in 2019 upon the release of her best-selling essay collection, Trick... more

To close out the holidays, our conversation with actor Harris Dickinson. We discuss his latest role in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl... more

For the holiday week, we’re revisiting one of our favorite conversations with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and critic Hilton Als. At... more

Actor Sebastian Stan has built a career out of shapeshifting. This week, he joins us to discuss the process of... more

For the past 50 years, Nikki Giovanni has been one of our preeminent poets. Rest in Power to the legendary... more

It’s been a year. And while we’re not quite done with it (3:15), we wanted to take a moment to... more

To close out the holiday weekend, we're revisiting our conversation with writer, food expert, and television host Padma Lakshmi. At... more

Today, for your holiday week, we’re returning to one of our favorite 2024 conversations with actor Jeff Daniels. Daniels is... more

Actor, writer, and director Jesse Eisenberg’s latest project, A Real Pain, is perhaps his most personal to date. He joins us... more

Since the turn of the century, actor Josh Brolin has had quite a run. From No Country for Old Men... more

It’s been a week. To help us through it, we’ve enlisted The New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon. We... more

On the heels of his latest book The Message, author Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Sam for a conversation in Los Angeles.... more

Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air) has been a fixture in Hollywood for the past fifteen years. She... more

For the past decade, Jason Reynolds has become an inspiring voice in the literary world. He’s a New York Times... more

Today, culture critic Wesley Morris (The New York Times) returns to Talk Easy for a conversation about The Wonder of... more

Since his directorial debut in 2006, Jason Reitman has made the kind of films they say Hollywood doesn’t make anymore.... more

Director Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t just want to make movies. He wants to change them. This was true in 1969... more

Joaquin Phoenix is one of the greatest actors of his generation. For three decades, he’s moved seamlessly between auteur-driven films... more

For the past couple decades, actor Ken Leung has played scene-stealing characters in films like Rush Hour, Keeping the Faith,... more

To commemorate his 30th birthday, Abbi Jacobson interviews Sam! They talk about Sam's early days in journalism (8:00), his Almost... more

To start, Sam sits with another week in American life, before returning to our timely conversation with Congressman Maxwell Frost... more