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Variety Interview Studio Returns to TIFF Featuring Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez, Elton John, Dakota Johnson, Lupita Nyong’o and More

The studio, supported by J.Crew and SharkNinja, will feature Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez, Elton John, Dakota Johnson, Lupita Nyong'o and more.

Talent participating in the studio includes Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, and Sean Baker (“Anora”); Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, Himesh Patel, and Fleur Fortuné (“The Assessment”); Barry Keoghan and Nykiya Adams (“Bird”); Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe, John Turturro, and Sean Ellis (“The Cut”); Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas, and Ron Howard (“Eden”); Elton John, David Furnish, and R.J. Cutler (“Elton John: Never Too Late”); Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Édgar Ramírez, and Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Perez”); Ryan Destiny, Bryan Tyree Henry, Claressa Shields, and Rachel Morrison (“The Fire Inside”); Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, David Siegel, and Scott McGehee (“The Friend”); Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, and Mike Leigh (“Hard Truths”); Anderson .Paak and Soul Rasheed (“K-Pops!”); Pamela Anderson, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, Gia Coppola and Kate Gersten (“The Last Showgirl”); Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, and Mike Flanagan (“The Life of Chuck”); Dakota Johnson and Talia Bernstein (“Loser Baby”); Ben Stiller and David Gordon Green (“Nutcrackers”); John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Corey Hawkins, Malcolm Washington, and Virgil Williams (“The Piano Lesson”); Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore (“The Room Next Door”); Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson (“Rumours”); Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Lamorne Morris, and Jason Reitman (“Saturday Night”); Lupita Nyong’o, Kit Connor, Catherine O’Hara, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, and Chris Sanders (“The Wild Robot”). The film, distributed by Mubi and starring Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid, follows a fading celebrity who decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. Coverage from the interview studio, as well as the magazine’s additional festival events, will be distributed across Variety’s social media platforms and on Variety.com starting September 6 and continuing throughout this year’s TIFF.

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