Candice Frederick

Much like in writer-director Miranda July’s most personal works — including her new film, Kajillionaire, and book, aptly titled Miranda July — we’re catching her in flux. She had just finished lifting weights before she hustled into her car to hop on the phone for this interview. “I’m slightly winded,” she admits to Shondaland.
But since Kajillionaire’s premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival back in January, July has had a lot of time to further ruminate on its complicated themes of f...

It should come as no surprise that after 10 seasons of zombie apocalypse drama on The Walking Dead and five seasons following the same madness in a different location on its spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead, AMC further extended its doomed landscape into another era with The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Is it necessary? Absolutely not. Does it work? Meh, sometimes.
Exploring what life looks like for the ones born during an apparently never-ending apocalypse is certainly an intriguing, previously...

You might think that after years of tirelessly advocating for our democracy, earning Tony and Emmy Awards, and cementing icon status as pragmatic lawyer Miranda Hobbes on Sex and the City, Cynthia Nixon has done it all. But when it came to the role of sensitive yet successful Gwendolyn Briggs, the campaign manager to a two-fisted governor of California (Vincent D’Onofrio) in showrunner Ryan Murphy’s Ratched, the actress was in unfamiliar territory.
“I just thought, ‘I’m amazed that Ryan has t...

Janelle Monae and her directors tackled slavery's terrible legacy. But re-enacting scenes of bandage demanded reserves of strength.

Geraldine Viswanathan and I are not in front of each other—in fact, she's called from L.A., the other side of the country for me—but I can still sense her warmth and openness over the phone, her unabashed laughter coming through even when she’s poking fun at herself....

And use her platform for good. The actress and comedian on her new series 'Woke' and creating joy in quarantine.

THIS DOUBLE EMMY NOMINEE HAS EARNED HER LATEST NOMINATIONS FOR CASTING "INSECURE" AND "WATCHMEN."

Hollywood has hyper-sexualized Black bodies for too long. Sasha Smith and Teniece Divya Johnson are trying to change that.

Jurnee Smollett is no stranger to confronting the supernatural and examining what cannot be seen or even fully explained. After all, she was just 11-years-old when she starred as the title character in Eve’s Bayou, playing a precocious young girl who puts a lethal hex on her father (Samuel L. Jackson). Now she is similarly interrogating the metaphorical and literal monsters that pervade 1950s Jim Crow America as Leti Lewis on Lovecraft Country.
To hear the actress tell it, though, nothing mak...

Genre TV has been dominated by white men for too long. Two of summer's best shows give Wunmi Mosaku and Melanie Scrofano a freedom they haven't seen before.

The two actors are Emmys competitors this year, just one example of "so many parallels" between them, Brown said.

When you think of characters on screen perusing a copy of Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo or Bram Stoker's Dracula, you may instantly conjure up images of white male protagonists at the center of a haunting narrative. And to that end, road trip films and TV series also typically have white male leads. But the fact that showrunner Misha Green's spellbinding Lovecraft Country defies genre stereotypes with fantastic Black talent both in front of and behind the camera isn't what shoul...

At a time when police can kill an innocent Black woman in her home (and face no criminal charges) and a pandemic is inordinately impacting Black and brown people, the notion of a “Black supremacy” seems astounding.
But that is the hill that Terry Crews is apparently willing to die on. The Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor recently sparked a social media backlash with a series of tweets that seemed to suggest that Black liberation is somehow synonymous with white degradation.
Contrast Beyoncé’s new vis...

The 2020 noms are actually...not terrible?

Today, when artists and social media personalities alike seem beholden to the often binary rules of wokeness — where everything is either black or white, right or wrong — it is unnerving to watch Michaela Coel’s irresolute dramedy exploring sexual consent, race and gender, I May Destroy You.
“I’m not aware of that pressure, to be honest,” Coel admits to Shondaland, with a laugh. She adds that part of the reason she isn’t beholden to binaries is because she’s been too busy finishing scripts to...