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Emily Mortimer is perhaps best known for her role as MacKenzie McHale in Aaron Sorkin’s beloved HBO series “The Newsroom.” Some of her other memorable performances are in Woody Allen’s “March Point,” Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” and “Hugo” and as Phoebe, Jack Donaghy’s love interest, on the NBC series “30 Rock.” In this hour she talks extensively about one particular, powerful scene in her breakout film, Nicole Holofcener’s “Lovely & Amazing” (which earned her an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress), and about what it was like to play a character named “Emily Mortimer” in her HBO series “Doll & Em.” Plus, of course, we talk SORKIN. And before you run to see Ms. Mortimer in the eagerly anticipated “Mary Popins Returns” at the end of the year, be sure to catch her in the charming Isabelle Coixet film “The Bookshop,” opposite Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson, this Summer.

We could not have a more perfect guest for the first episode of a podcast about “the work” of acting if we build one. The TV guest star extraordinaire, the go-to indie comedy player of our time, the actor's actor--Kevin Corrigan seems to be in everything. From nearly 30 years of experience in front of the camera in indies like Buffalo 66 and Results, studio films like Goodfellas and The Departed and television shows such as Grounded for Life, Community, and The Get Down, he has developed a poignant and often hilarious wisdom about this craft he loves. And in this hour he generously shares it with us. Presented by Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of IFP, the Independent Filmmaker Project Producer and Host: Peter Rinaldi Executive Producer:  Scott Macaulay