The Conversations program offers screenings followed by inspiring Q&A’s with leading actors and casts, as well as Career Retrospectives with preeminent actors who explore the process and profession with an audience of fellow artists. Conversations focus on personal experiences and artistic influences that inform and shape careers; discuss current and past projects; share valuable insights into the craft and industry; and preserve creative legacies.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s remote Conversations at Home series is our re-envisioned, virtual production of our established in-person Conversations
Conversations at Home offers remote Q&As and career retrospectives with actors, directors and casts to discuss the craft of acting, their creative processes and award-nominated projects with our audience of SAG-AFTRA members. All Conversations at Home are moderated by seasoned arts and entertainment writers/journalists.
From September 2021 – March 2022, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation produced over 100 Conversations at Home Q&As with top awards contenders including the cast of Ted Lasso, the cast of Squid Game, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Billy Crudup of The Morning Show, Ariana DeBose of West Side Story, Nicole Kidman of Being the Ricardos, Javier Bardem of Being the Ricardos, Jared Leto of House of Gucci, the cast of Belfast, Troy Kotsur of CODA, the cast of Spencer, Andrew Garfield of Tick, Tick…Boom, the cast of West Side Story, Kirsten Dunst of The Power of the Dog, Evan Peters of Mare of Easttown, the cast of CODA, Margaret Qualley of Maid, the cast of Yellowstone, Nicolas Cage and Alex Wolff of PIG, Regina Hall of Nine Perfect Strangers, the cast of MASS, Adrien Brody of CLEAN, Alexander Dreymon of The Last Kingdom, and more. Our Conversations at Home playlist is available here.
Live Conversations are presented in Los Angeles, New York and cities nationwide. We offer two types of Conversations: screenings of films and television shows followed by Q&As with casts and principals, and two-hour Career Retrospectives with influential actors of our time. All Conversations are professionally moderated, recorded and available in our video gallery.
Our collection of over 350 Career Retrospectives with notable actors and broadcasters includes Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Stewart, Harvey Keitel, Oscar Isaac, Eugenio Derbez. Udo Kier, Tim Blake Nelson, Frankie Faison, Jason Isaacs, Rami Malek, Darren Criss, Patricia Clarkson, Michael B. Jordan, Michelle Yeoh, Hugh Jackman, Bradley Cooper, Adam Driver, Morgan Freeman, Leonardo DiCaprio,Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Aniston, Mahershala Ali, Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Sir Ian McKellen, Al Pacino, Dan Rather, Kirk Douglas, Diahann Caroll, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Russell, Robert Duvall, Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston and hundreds more live in our permanent archive, with many available for viewing or listening online.
In New York, we host a special Conversations series in partnership with BroadwayWorld.com to celebrate the vibrant theater community in the city and feature actors with careers on both stage and screen including Audra McDonald, Liev Schreiber, Chazz Palminteri, Chita Rivera, Stockard Channing, Ellen Burstyn, David Hyde Pierce, Judy Greer, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jim Parsons and Keith Carradine.
