Introducing the Smackdown Panel for '38
Monday, August 31, 2020 at 1:54PM Are you ready for the seventh episode in this super-sized Supporting Actress Smackdown season? Up next in 15 days is 1938. [UPDATE 09/16 - THE SMACKDOWN IS NOW PUBLISHED] That was only the third year of the Supporting categories at the Oscars but you can already see some tropes forming. Here's where you can watch the nominated performances/films.
Let's meet the panelists
PLEASE WELCOME...
STEVEN WEBER
Steven Weber is an actor of stage, screen, and film, most recently seen on “Ballers”, “13 Reasons Why”, “Get Shorty” and opposite Fran Drescher in NBC’s “Indebted”. Earlier television roles include NBC's "Wings" and Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip" where he received wide critical praise. His film credits include The Flamingo Kid, Hamburger Hill, Single White Female, The Temp, Jeffrey and Dracula: Dead and Loving It!. His Broadway credits include “The Real Thing,” "The Philanthropist" and "The Producers". He is also a notable audiobook narrator, winning awards for his reading of “Stephen King’s It”, among many others. [Twitter | IMDb]
BRITNEY YOUNG
Britney Young is an actress currently starring in the last season of the hit Netflix show GLOW. She has also appeared on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Better Things and Those Who Can't. She is currently social distancing at her parents house, going through her childhood closet, reading up a storm and binge-watching shows she's seen about a million times already. [Twitter | Instagram | IMDb]
JOANNE ROBINSON
Joanna Robinson is a senior writer for Vanity Fair and hosts several podcasts including the magazine’s shows Little Gold Men and Still Watching. You can find her on Twitter at @jowrotethis or, in the before time, haunting the back row of your local movie theater. [Twitter | Vanity Fair]
CLÁUDIO ALVES
Cláudio is a Portuguese film writer who's been an avid cinephile since his parents decided to take their surprisingly quiet baby to watch the latest Disney picture. After studying Theatre in college, he worked as a costume designer for several small productions and started writing for the Portuguese website Magazine.HD. Since then, he's written for Filmin PT, Photogenie.be, The Film Experience, the Portuguese blog of SundanceTV, and participated in the 2017 Young Critics Workshop at the Ghent Film Festival. Currently he's working as a designer on a show written by a beloved friend and inspired by Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and the novel on which it's based. He's openly gay and the proud owner of a feline angel by the name of Maggie The Cat. [Twitter]
HOSTED BY...
NATHANIEL ROGERS
Nathaniel is the creator and owner of The Film Experience. He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and a longtime Oscar pundit here at TFE. His writing has also appeared at other publications including Vanity Fair, Vulture, Slate, Towleroad, and Winq.
If you are a working actor, a renowned critic, film historian, a novelist, or an arts professional of some kind, chances are good that he has meant to invite you to a Smackdown panel, or would have if he happened to know you were obsessed with supporting actresses. [Twitter | Contact | Instagram]
NOW PLEASE ENJOY THE 1938 SMACKDOWN
Reader Comments (29)
What a great panel! Jeffrey was my first gay experience at the movies, so I'm particularly stoked for Steven Weber. (Plus I see him at the grocery store, so it would be fun to say "great job on the smackdown" to him.)
Omg...the guy who gets a stiletto in his eye from Single White Female!! so exciting :) and I'm rooting for Billie Burke all the way, love her warbling comic wit.
Great list of names for this panel. I look forward to what the panel will say about this lineup because when it comes to earlier film it can be quite unpredictable to how someone will respond. Personally I support Bainter's win and I look forward to some discussion of her as a performer as she's so underrated as an actress from her period
I have a thing for Steven Weber.
Steven Weber was a huge crush of mine when I was a teenager. My current crush is Claudio Alves 😅
Great panel!!
Really looking forward to this Smackdown, I'm a classic movie head and the 30's/40's are my favorite period. Four of the best character actresses of their time, and a soprano in her only notable movie, going head to head is very exciting.
I love Joanna Robinson! She is a great podcaster and a terrific voice on twitter as well. I'm looking forward to her mysterious first book....
I used to watch Steven Weber on TV series "Wings"in the 1990s. He looks magnificent.
Wow, what a fun panel! Really like Britney Young and Steven Weber, and about time Claudio joins in!
@Sean: I'm also totally hoping Billie Burke takes this one, I thought she and her movie were delightful.
It's JEFFREY! (And other favorites.)
Love Britney Young in GLOW. Carmen is one of my favorite characters, if not *the* favorite among so many great ones!
Nathaniel...
Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ask Steven Weber for any fun tidbits from the set of SINGLE WHITE FEMALE? :)
This is such a fun group! Love Webber from a couple titles, love Joanne from a couple podcasts. And I'll get to know what Cláudio's voice sounds like!
!!! Joanne Robinson who I've loved listening to so many times AND Steven Weber (was a devoted Wings viewer, and liked him a ton in the The Shining). Nice line-up! Looking forward to it.
OMG. I just watched Jeffrey the other day ... and here is Steven Weber! Such a lovely actor.
Heard Weber was terrific in the television remake of The Shining. Has anyone seen it?
Excited to hear from all of them but so cool to have Steven Weber on! Hope there's lots of discussion on who else would have been amazing that year - terrific film year but not as big a fan of these nominees overall.
Damn. Nathaniel GURL. You made it.
Fabulous panel!
GShaq -- i wish this meant i'd made it but thank you!
everyone -- it's been the saving joy of this summer to be able to have done these panels. everything else has sucked (as you all know!~)
Britney Young! She's been SUCH A JOY whenever I see her on my screen. Looking forward to hearing her thoughts on things.
I had such gay fantasies about Steven Weber after seeing Jeffrey. Omg.
Congratulations, this is an amazing panel!
Britney Young's acting in GLOW was so good! I miss that show.
Joanne Robinson !! i'm a big fan of all of her podcasts, and there are a lot of them, so glad tot welcome her to a smackdown.
You got The Shucker for your podcast?????
Can we get different cute quality headshots with every Cláudio post? <3 <3 <3
These panels are consistently brilliant!
You have the legend from Single White Female and Wings on the panel!
Nick T -- I hate hearing my own voice, so I'll never listen to this episode of the podcast. That being said I hope you don't find it as bad as I do.
I also hope you guys enjoy this smackdown. I was so nervous when recording the conversation, I'm afraid it's all repetitive ramblings on my part, Still, it was great fun to do one of these and to discover some of these films which I'd never watched. I won't spoil my thoughts on the performances but this was a fascinating bunch and I'm very interested in seeing how the reader's votes influence the final result. It's a tight race.