The Hollywood Interview

 ALEXANDER SIDDIG joins Alex for a personal journey through his film acting career.  From "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia" reprising a role made famous by Alec Guinness, to the Roger Corman-like new movie "Skylines" released by Vertical Entertainment  in select Theaters, Drive-ins, On Demand and ...

Sigourney Weaver.  Revered as the leading American actress who combines indomitable strength with old world elegance, Sigourney Weaver comes by both naturally.

Sigourney Weaver sat down with Alex over lunch at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons, looking every bit the elegant lady in a tailored red suit and discussed her movie c...

Alex looks back during these tough days of global pandemic to his days of underage sneaking into R rated movies.  Raging Bull, Two Minute Warning, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver and of course a generation's first love - Pretty Baby and Brooke Shields.

Enjoy this cinematic tour through a teenager's lens.  Also Caligula, Black Sunday, King of The Gypsies, Death on the Nile, A Bridge Too Far in the background.

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Cult Movie expert Danny Wolf joins Alex Simon for The Hollywood Interview Late Show to discuss controversy over Martin Scorcese's "The Irishman".    The two filmmakers expose the evolving appetite of the movie going audience in the age of Marvel fandom.

True cinephiles, Danny and Alex cruise through the subject of modern film history touching upon Taranatino, De Palma, Friedkin, Frankenheimer and John Waters.  Cult movies and other...

Helen Mirren recounts her career. Playing English queens Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II.  Caligula, Excalibur, Gosford Park and Prime Suspect.  Alex and Helen discuss her early years at the Royal Shakespeare Company and her Russian heritage.  Religion and Hillary Clinton.

Helen Mirren was voiced by Fiona Cooke of Extraextracasting.com

Hang out for a Special Feature at the end of the interview - Fiona Cooke of Extra Extra Casting give...

Dennis Hopper and Alex discuss big roles; Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and True Romance.  How sobriety was a big part of the Hopper career rebirth.  How Dennis invented the music video.  Film financing and screenwriting.

Dennis Hopper was played by Vernon Scott.  Vernon is an actor and voice actor.  He can be found on Facebook.

Please be aware there is mature language including racial slurs in this episode.

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The Hollywood landscape is littered with tragedies, broken promise and self-destruction. Many promising artists stumble once and never recover from that initial fall. In the history of American film, there has never been a phoenix-like story of survival and rebirth quite like that of Dennis Hopper.

Surrounded by some of the film, art and political world’s most s...

Patrick Swayze passed ten years ago today, September 14, 2009, at age 57. Of the over 600 people I've interviewed since 1996, Patrick was, by far, the nicest. A real person. No pretense. No diva, movie star nonsense. Just another guy that I was having a chat with. In a time when we see ex-Nazis (and other despots) living to the century mark, the untimely passing of someone like Patrick Swayze is made all that much more palpable. Ou...

Even the most seasoned (and jaded) journalists are faced with a subject who brings butterflies to the stomach, akin to what we felt at our first school dance. The prospect of chatting with the iconic Lauren Bacall had this effect on me. It was 2007 and Bacall had just finished work on Paul Schrader’s “The Walker,” opposite Woody Harrelson. Our chat on the phone became one of the great conversati...

Sidney Lumet was the first director I interviewed whose one-sheet posters hung on my wall as a kid. He was an idol, an icon, and an inspiration. I wasn't yet 30 in April 1997, when I met him at The Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills for our interview at the press junket for "Night Falls On Manhattan," one of his solid, authentic urban dramas that blended crime, politics and personal revelations that became his signature. Lumet's b...