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The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott

Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott delivers your weekly dose of pop culture with the Parting Shot. Every week you’ll get celebrity interviews, award show coverage, and the rundown on exactly what to watch, read, and listen to in culture. Consider the Parting Shot your one stop shop for everything pop culture.

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00:31:39

From ‘Reba’ to ‘Happy's Place’: Melissa Peterman on...

The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott ·

2025/11/07

For Melissa Peterman, the first season of NBC’s Happy’s Place was a dream come true; getting a second season is an embarrassment of riches. “Getting a pilot is the lottery. Getting that pilot picked up is another gigantic win that is getting rarer and rarer.” Peterman plays Gabby, friend and co-worker of Bobbie, played by Reba McEntire, owner of the fictional tavern Happy’s Place. The sitcom reunites Peterman and McEntire, who first appeared together on Reba. “I think there is value in the second

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00:26:51

Glenn Close Was 'Very Impressed' With Kim Kardashian...

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2025/11/05

Considering the number of iconic women that have worked on Ryan Murphy projects, it’s shocking Glenn Close hasn’t. That’s changing with Hulu’s All’s Fair. “I was intimidated until I started to understand the tone. And once I understood the tone, then it became really fun,” Close told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Close plays Dina, a powerful lawyer in an all-female firm that includes actors Kim Kardashian, Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash and Naomi Watts, among others. “To bring all that energy...and all that

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00:36:15

Michael Chernus on 'Devil in Disguise' and Honoring...

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2025/10/31

This week, I have a serious and emotional conversation with actor Michael Chernus about his challenging new role as John Wayne Gacy in Peacock's Devil in Disguise. He shares how he mentally prepared to play the serial killer and why this limited series is different by focusing on the victims of these horrific crimes. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://link.newsweek.com/join/for-the-culture Follow me: https://linktr.ee/halanscott Subscribe to Newsweek’s YouTube:

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00:24:50

Padma Lakshmi on ‘Padma's All American’ and What...

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2025/10/29

Padma Lakshmi’s new cookbook, Padma’s All American, is a natural extension of her Hulu series Taste the Nation. In fact, the documentary laid the groundwork for the book, says the former Top Chef host. “Once we had done the show, I had all these communities I had already embedded myself in,” she told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Beyond recipes, the book carries an important message: Lakshmi “was trying to...really highlight the positive effects of having all these contributions from immigrants.” For

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00:21:36

Marion Cotillard on 'Disappearing' Into Her ‘Morning...

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2025/10/23

“I need to get obsessed by projects so I can be involved in. I want to be entirely disappearing in a project.” And that’s exactly what Marion Cotillard has done in joining season four of The Morning Show (Apple TV+). Cotillard plays Celine Dumont, the new board president of the fictional news network who hails from a French dynasty and has plans to shake things up. The Oscar-winning actress found her first TV series “very different from a movie,” but leaned into the “best advice” from co-star Billy

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00:27:07

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Is a Nuclear...

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2025/10/22

The most terrifying thing about nuclear weapons isn’t the warheads, but how quiet we as a society have become about them. The Cold War-era fear of total annihilation has morphed into a dangerous cultural amnesia that Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow finds deafening. With her newest film, A House of Dynamite, she is determined to make the world listen again. “I think the fact that the conversation has drifted off has a lot to do with the fact that nuclear weapons have sort of been

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00:26:18

Patricia Arquette on the 'Chilling' Psychology of the...

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2025/10/22

Even before Patricia Arquette signed on to play Maggie Murdaugh in Hulu’s Murdaugh: Death in the Family, she was already “obsessed” with the infamous case of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh. “I had been following it and watched documentaries and different shows about it,” she told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. “I was just really doing a deep dive looking at Narcissistic Personality Disorder.” One of the things that really fascinated Arquette about Maggie was her slow, tragic realization of her

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00:28:29

Nicholas Sparks, M. Night Shyamalan and Their...

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2025/10/16

How do you write a love story where the central characters can’t touch? Well, if anybody can, it’s Nicholas Sparks. “This is a difficult love story to pull off,” Sparks told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott about his new novel Remain, which he collaborated on with director M. Night Shyamalan, who is adapting the book into a feature film. “One of the reasons we're doing this, of course, is, hey, maybe some of my readers who don't see M. Night films will go see Remain. Maybe some of his fans who would never

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00:29:06

Jason Clarke on Playing Alex Murdaugh: 'I'm Not Going...

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2025/10/15

To play Alex Murdaugh, Jason Clarke wasn’t going to turn the man into a caricature, telling producers, “I’m not going to play a bad guy here,” Clarke told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Instead, Clarke focused on the “tragedy of Roman proportions” in Hulu’s ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family,’ based on the true story of a South Carolina man convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife and son. “We’re not here to sensationalize it or even to replay it. We’re there to open it up.” Clarke has two other big projects

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00:28:00

Tonatiuh on the Timely Power of Kiss of the Spider Woman

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2025/10/10

This week, Tonatiuh joins Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott to discuss the powerful new film, Kiss of the Spider Woman. We explore the importance of Latin excellence on screen and why this story is so topical for queer and trans communities today. We also break down the incredible, star-making performance at the heart of the film by Tonatiuh and what it was like to work alongside powerhouses of talent like Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and director Bill Condon. Subscribe to my newsletter:

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00:24:31

Keira Knightley on 'The Woman in Cabin 10' and the...

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2025/10/10

Keira Knightley is the first one to say her new film The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix) is “rather tense.” That said, “part of the joy of making something that's sort of so tense and twisted and strange is when you're working with really lovely people, you can also have a bit of a giggle,” Knightley told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Knightley plays Laura Blacklock, a journalist on an assignment on a super yacht with billionaires who don’t believe her when she stumbles on a gruesome secret. She says the

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00:25:33

From Sweet Dee to 'High Potential': The Evolution of...

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2025/10/08

As a star and producer on High Potential, Kaitlin Olson is all-in on the ABC dramedy, now in its second season. “The heart and soul of this show is Morgan's family and her children, and I don't want those to ever be cheesy.” Olson’s Morgan is a single mom with an extraordinary gift: She’s able to piece together information to solve once unsolvable crimes. Finding the balance between family and crime was key to Olson. “Getting it right was really important to me.” And having a say as a producer

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00:34:52

You Gotta Be You (And a Little Messy) with Brandon...

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2025/10/03

Get ready to get messy. This week, we're joined by the brilliant and hilarious Brandon Kyle Goodman for a gloriously unfiltered, absolutely NSFW chat. You know them as the writer and voice on Netflix's Big Mouth, but Brandon is a multi-talented force dedicated to helping us all embrace our most authentic, chaotic, and beautiful selves. We dive headfirst into their incredible book, You Gotta Be You, discussing everything from radical self-acceptance to the messy parts of life we're often told to

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00:25:20

Elvira on Her Legacy, Her Halloween Cookbook, and...

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2025/10/01

Elvira firmly believes Halloween requires spooky snacks, and she’s here to provide some inspiration with Elvira's Cookbook from Hell: Sexy, Spooky Soirées and Celebrations for Every Occasion. "I ate every single recipe. I was tasting every single one and they were all great," Cassandra Peterson, the actress behind Elvira, told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. "I do love to cook, however. I don't know about Elvira. I don’t think she cooks so much, but I love cooking." For the past 45 years, Elvira has been

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00:25:12

Beyond Grey's: Jesse Williams Bets on Himself With...

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2025/10/01

For Hotel Costiera, Jesse Williams was drawn to making "something that is global.” The new Prime Video series stars Williams as Daniel De Luca, a former Marine who returns home to Italy to work at a hotel, only to find himself tasked with finding the missing daughter of the hotel’s owner. While he has “no complaints” filming in Positano paradise, “I tried to stay relatively disciplined, but I ate a lot of pasta and bread,” Williams told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Of the character, he related to his

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00:30:29

A Day in the Park with Disney YouTuber David Vaughn

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2025/09/26

For millions of people, a trip to a Disney park is a special occasion, a magical escape. But what if it was your job? What if your office was Main Street, U.S.A., and your daily task was to ride attractions and eat snacks for an audience of thousands? Today we're talking to someone who lives that reality: David Vaughn, one of the most engaging Disney content creators on YouTube and social media. He joins Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott to pull back the curtain to ask him what the job is really like, what

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00:33:24

The Disney Food Blog's AJ Wolfe on Her New Book,...

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2025/09/26

What comes to mind when you hear the term 'Disney Adult'? Is it a stereotype, a punchline, or something much deeper? Today, we're getting the definitive take from the person who literally wrote the book on it. AJ Wolfe, the brilliant creator of the essential YouTube channel, The Disney Food Blog, and now the author of the fantastic new book, 'Disney Adults: Exploring (And Falling In Love With) A Magical Subculture,’ joins Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott on today’s episode of the Parting Shot Podcast. We're

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00:31:09

‘Still Bobbi’: Inside Bobbi Brown’s Impatient Yet...

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2025/09/24

For Bobbi Brown, patience isn't a virtue; it’s an obstacle. The makeup artist and entrepreneur operates on a timeline dictated by instinct, not corporate calendars. “I have no patience,” Brown tells Newsweek’s Parting Shot Podcast in a wide-ranging conversation about her new memoir Still Bobbi. “Like I go in and I say, ‘Oh I love this new product, when are we getting it? February?’ I’m like, ‘Hell no, bring it out in November. I don't care it's not in a package.’” This drive is the engine behind

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00:26:16

Parvati Shallow: Surviving the Game, The Traitors,...

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2025/09/19

She's one of the most iconic and feared players in reality TV history, and this week, the legendary Parvati Shallow joins Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott for a can't-miss conversation. From the cutthroat beaches of Survivor to the paranoia-filled castle of The Traitors, Parvati has mastered the art of the game, but what about the woman behind the "Black Widow" persona? She pulls back the curtain on her most famous strategic moves and dives deep into the powerful lessons on intuition and resilience she

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00:23:35

Robin Wright on the Delicious Clash of 'Alpha...

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2025/09/17

Robin Wright knew that in her new Prime Video show The Girlfriend, which she developed in addition to starring in, she would have to fight the potential for melodrama, because “it could easily go there,” she told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. “This was so much of our discussion in the writer's room. How do we keep it plausible?” Wright plays Laura, whose adult son Daniel (Laurie Davidson) starts dating a suspicious woman named Cherry (Olivia Cooke) and proceeds to spiral out of control. “She does not

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