Hollywood Remixed

Logan Browning – “From School Daze to Dear White People: The Different World of Black College Narratives”

In 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 repr

Justin Chon – “Documenting the Undocumented”

This week we're discussing undocumented immigrant narratives with two very special guests. Pulitzer-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of the media advoc

Asia Kate Dillon – “Beyond the Binary”

This 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

Simu Liu - "(Not) Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting"

This 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.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – “Horror Noire”

Candyman 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 h

Marlee Matlin on ‘CODA’ and Authentic Deaf Portrayals

In 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 O

Stephanie Beatriz – "Nine-Nine Characters but a Latina (Usually) Ain't One"

In the first season finale of Hollywood Remixed, the Rebeccas turn the spotlight on the most disproportionately underrepresented onscreen demographic: Latinas. While they

John Boyega - "Episode VII: RAAACE IN SPAAAAACE"

Onscreen, 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? I

Born This Way – "Defying Limitations in the Face of Cognitive Disability"

In 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 learni

Marja-Lewis Ryan - “Generation Q: Talking TV Lesbian Evolution with the Showrunner of the New L Word”

Lesbian 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 DeGener

Lorene Scafaria – "Exposing Hollywood's Stripper Tropes with the Director of Hustlers"

Strippers 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'

William Jackson Harper – “Did I Do That? Revenge of the (Black) Nerd”

Pop 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 misfit

Sterling K. Brown – “From Huxtable to Pearson: Hollywood’s Best Black Fathers”

While 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 t

Henry Golding – “Long Duk Who? The Rise of the Asian Leading Man”

Although 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 nei