Channel: SAG-AFTRA Foundation

Category: Entertainment

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Description: We're excited to release a Career Conversations with John C. Reilly from our Actors Archive, recorded on November 12, 2018, moderated by Stacey Wilson Hunt. Academy Award-nominated John C. Reilly is one of the most diverse actors working today, with an impressive range of roles in dramas, comedies, musicals, and foreign films. He has been acknowledged by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the Tony Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards as well as the Grammys, among others. Mr. Reilly has worked with top directors such as Martin Scorsese in both Gangs of New York and The Aviator; Brian De Palma in Casualties of War; Robert Altman in A Prairie Home Companion; Terrence Malick in The Thin Red Line; Rob Marshall in Chicago; Roman Polanski in Carnage; Wolfgang Petersen in The Perfect Storm; Lynne Ramsay in We Need to Talk About Kevin; Paul Thomas Anderson in Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia; and Adam McKay in Step Brothers and currently, starring in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, which is not discussed in this 2018 conversation. He has starred in the hit comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Step Brothers, Cyrus, and Guardians of the Galaxy. He voiced the title character in the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Wreck-It Ralph and was the voice of Eddie in Sing. Mr. Reilly’s work in the world of independent films includes The Lobster, The Good Girl, Cedar Rapids, The Promotion, Terri, Year of the Dog, Criminal, and The Anniversary Party. Mr. Reilly’s many theater credits include True West, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, and A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway, as well as Steppenwolf productions of The Grapes of Wrath and A Streetcar Named Desire.