Yvonne Orji is best known for playing Molly Carter on the series Insecure. Her performance was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2020. Yvonne is also a stand-up comic and has a new HBO special titled: Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me. The special is a follow up to her 2020 comedy special: Momma, I Made It! Orji is from Nigeria and while she was a grad student, she entered a beauty pageant and performed stand-up for the talent portion of the event. You can watch Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me on HBO or streaming on HBO Max.

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Elijah Allan-Blitz is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, musician and actor. He also creates AR and VR experiences like his Emmy Award-nominated virtual reality experience Take Every Wave: Laird in VR. Other VR experiences from Allan-Blitz include one for Michael Pollan's book How To Change Your Mind and another that was a companion piece for the Ken Burns documentary, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War. His latest project is the Disney Plus short film and AR experience Remembering, which stars Brie Larson.

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Peter Sohn is a filmmaker, animator, story artist and voice over. He's worked on Pixar films like Luca, The Incredibles, Wall-E, Up dating back to Finding Nemo. Sohn directed the film The Good Dinosaur and is directing the upcoming film Elemental.

During his time at Pixar, Sohn has not only gotten to work creating films, but he's become a popular favorite for voicing characters. He played Emile in Ratatouille and Squishy in Monsters University. Most recently Sohn gave a scene stealing performance as Sox the robot comfort cat in the film Lightyear.

Lightyear is now available in 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD as well as for streaming on Disney Plus.

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Patrick Read Johnson is an accomplished writer and filmmaker who has directed movies like Spaced Invaders, Angus, Baby's Day Out, The Genesis Code and co-wrote the story for the film DragonHeart.

His latest project is the film 5-25-77. It's a semi-autobiographical film about a teenager named Patrick from Illinois who wants to be a filmmaker. Three months before Star Wars: A New Hope opened in 1977, he gets to see a working print at Lucasfilm effects house Industrial Light and Magic. Technically, he's the world's first Star Wars fan. Johnson's semi-autobiographical film 5-25-77 is a loving homage to Star Wars and other '70s sci-fi films. But it's also a fantastic coming of age film that artfully showcases how finding out who you are might be as easy as following your dreams.

The film was shot in 2004, but through various financial setbacks is finally being released this week. In fact, what you'll learn quickly from my conversation with Patrick is that it's hard to separate the man from his film and that the making of 5-25-77 is as much an adventure as what's on screen.

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Jaren Lewison is best known from his role as Ben Gross on the hit Netflix series Never Have I Ever. The show was created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. It's a coming of age comedy and drama that follows an Indian-American teen that wants to spruce up her social status. But her friends, family and feelings won’t make it easy on her. You can watch all three seasons of Never Have I Ever on Netflix.

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Julie Ann Emery has enjoyed roles in movies including ‘Hitch’ and TV shows like ‘Breaking Bad.” For Apple TV’s limited series about the tragic events at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina, Emery plays a committed health care provider trying to do right by her stranded patients when everything else goes horribly wrong. Based on true events.

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William Jackson Harper is an actor and playwright. You know him best for his Emmy nominated performance as Chidi on the show The Good Place as well as for his performances in series like Love Life, The Underground Railroad, Jack Ryan and the film Midsommar. William's latest project is the new Peacock original series The Resort which is a coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery. You can watch The Resort on Peacock with new episodes dropping on Thursdays.

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You know Dominic Monaghan best from as Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Charles Pace in the series Lost as well as from films like X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. His latest project is the new series Moonhaven which takes place a 100 years into the future in a Utopian colony on a moon. Moonhaven airs exclusively on AMC Plus with new episodes dropping on Thursdays.

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Stephen Merchant is an actor, comedian, writer and director who's behind such shows as The Office, Extras and Life's Too Short. He's won two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards and an Emmy. He also starred as Caliban in the film Logan. Merchant co-created, as well as wrote, directed episodes for the comedy/thriller series The Outlaws on Prime Video. He stars in the show as part of an ensemble that includes Christopher Walken. Season two of The Outlaws drops Aug. 5.

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Boyd Holbrook is an accomplished actor who's starred in films like Logan, Milk, Gone Girl and The Predator. He played DEA agent Steve Murphy in the Netflix series Narcos and will be in the upcoming series Sandman based on the Neil Gaiman comic book. His latest project is the new film Vengeance written and directed by B. J. Novak (The Office). Vengeance is out in theaters now and The Sandman drops on Netflix August 5.

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Actor Cameron Monaghan grew up before our eyes on Showtime’s Shameless, which tried to humanize the plight of a poor American family on Chicago’s South side. Now he stars in the crime thriller Paradise Highway as a young FBI agent trying to stop human trafficking of young girls in the US.

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