Illeana Douglas's Webseries; Make-up Artist Lois Burwell

Banter

The Banter ()

Kim Masters and John Horn-- Film Writer for the Los Angeles Times-- banter about some of this week’s top Hollywood News stories.

• Netflix strikes a huge deal with The Walt Disney Company for that studio’s content. To go into effect in 2016. How this will transform the landscape of video-on-demand and cable.
  
• Celador, the company that created and owns Who Wants to Be a Millionaire wins a legal fight with The Walt Disney Company over reported unpaid fees from when the show aired on Disney-owned ABC.
  
• Studios send swag to woo voters-- critics, guild and academy members alike.
  

Guests:

• John Horn: Los Angeles Times, @jghorn

Guest Interview

Illeana Douglas ()

In 2008, after three TV pilots failed to be picked up, Illeana Douglas turned her attention to the smaller screen. Now she’s in her fourth season of ‘Easy To Assemble’-- the IKEA branded webseries. But this is not an ad-- at least not in the traditional sense. Douglas explains the rare creative freedom she gets (only two notes in four years) and how essentially IKEA has paid her to go to film school for the last four years.

Illeana Douglas at KCRW

On Set at Ikea

LINKS:
Where to watch: Easy to Assemble 
Illeana Douglas
Easy to Assemble on Facebook

Guest Interview

Lois Burwell ()

Journalist Ari Karpel sits down with Oscar-winning make-up artist Lois Burwell who was tasked with the responsibility to transfrom Daniel Day Lewis into the iconic president for the Spielberg movie Lincoln. Burwell, gives us a sense of what it’s truly like to work as a make-up artist-- stripping away the idea of glamour to the sometimes messy work on set.

LINKS:
Lois Burwell
LincolnMovie.com