“I’m obsessed with the sense of proving myself [and] proving to myself what I think that I can’t do,” the actor, who’s gearing up for her latest role, told BuzzFeed News.
There were plenty of impressive performances this year, but BuzzFeed Entertainment talked with a group of actors about their particularly outstanding achievements — on screen and off. Here are our features, presented in chronological order of when they were published.
In 2015, BuzzFeed News talked to disappearing '00s star Susan May Pratt, found out the story behind Love and Basketball, and had Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg talk to each other about their career highlights. Here are our best retrospectives of the year, in the order they were published.
BuzzFeed Entertainment talked to the people behind some of the biggest projects of the year (like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Empire, Furious 7, and Making a Murderer). Here's the best of those features, presented in the order of when it was published. Warning: SPOILERS ABOUND!
Samuel L. Jackson tells BuzzFeed News everything you need to know about that flashback scene in Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie. WARNING: Major spoilers ahead!
There was so much to celebrate this year. "Can you feel a brand new day?"
From Empire to The Empire, these are the year's biggest breakout stars.
There's only so much room on our DVRs...and in our hearts.
The Hateful Eight star talks about his frequent director’s use of the racial slur and constantly encountering "people who want to nitpick this whole nigger thing," as he told BuzzFeed News.
“There was a liberation in being able to play in a medium where my body was not the thing in question,” the actor, whose voice is only heard in The Force Awakens, told BuzzFeed News.
♬ "Do you know where you're going to?"♬ Here are 70 of the most iconic black films, through the year 2000.
The stars and the director of this genre-busting sleeper hit — which is returning to theaters for one day to celebrate its 20th anniversary — talk to BuzzFeed News about why it still resonates. “I know you don’t smoke weed. I know this. But I’m gonna get you high today. 'Cuz it’s Friday, you ain’t got no job, and you ain’t got shit to do!”
Samuel L. Jackson tells BuzzFeed News everything you need to know about that flashback scene in Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie. WARNING: Major spoilers ahead!
The Hateful Eight star talks about his frequent director’s use of the racial slur and constantly encountering "people who want to nitpick this whole nigger thing," as he told BuzzFeed News.
Rapper Miles Brock finally came out in this week’s episode of Love & Hip Hop Hollywood. “That moment was everything that I imagined it would be,” he told BuzzFeed News. “It was my biggest nightmare.”
The cast of HBO’s critically beloved show gathered for a reunion as part of the 2nd Annual Paley Festival in New York. Sorry, Stringer and McNulty fans: Idris Elba and Dominic West missed it, but sent videos.
Due to a lack of opportunity in their home countries, black British actors are finding success — and meatier roles — telling Black American stories, sometimes even iconic ones. For David Oyelowo, who plays Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, this is one of those transformative moments.
Ester Dean has written songs for the world's biggest pop stars. BuzzFeed News chats with the singer/songwriter/actor about how some of those songs came together.
The new biopic Straight Outta Compton attempts to humanize a gangsta rap group that gave young black America a profanity-laden battle cry: "You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge."
