“Acting Up” features intimate conversations with the creatives, executives, and decision-makers who are truly moving the needle when it comes to representation in Hollywood and beyond. In each episode, theGrio’s Entertainment Director Cortney Wills gets real with actors, writers, producers, directors, executives, and insiders who shape how our communities are represented on screens big and small. Through poignant commentary and in-depth interviews, she explores how Hollywood continues to influence so many aspects of our lives, from beauty standards to political participation, from how the rest of the world sees Black America to how they see themselves.

Episode 3

It comes down to choice, with Da’Vine Joy Randolph


March 8, 2024 - 29:16

Episode 2

Say it loud: The influential and complicated legacy of James Brown


February 16, 2024 - 28:17

Episode 1

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Origin, inhumanity &  inequity


January 22, 2024 - 29:07

Episode 14

The ring before spring: Black women and the MRS degree


September 29, 2023 - 53:40

Episode 13

Return to Wakanda


November 12, 2022 - 28:37

Episode 12

Trees of Peace


November 5, 2022 - 37:23

Episode 11

Taking in ‘Till’


October 15, 2022 - 36:02

Episode 10

Michelle Buteau: Survival of the Thickest


October 8, 2022 - 27:20

Episode 9

Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me 


October 1, 2022 - 18:02

Episode 8

The Silent Twins


September 24, 2022 - 40:52

Episode 7

Beneath the “Surface” 


September 9, 2022 - 29:25

Episode 6

There’s No Stopping Nicole Beharie


September 9, 2022 - 38:03

Episode 5

Nathalie Emmanuel: The Invitation


August 27, 2022 - 35:02

Episode 4

Hell of a Week with Charlamagne Tha God


August 20, 2022 - 23:05

Episode 3

Trials to Triumphs


August 12, 2022 - 29:49

Episode 2

Amanda Seales is Black Outside Part 2


August 8, 2022 - 30:27

Episode 1

Amanda Seales is Black Outside Part 1


August 2, 2022 - 31:28

Episode 51

Inside ABFF


August 2, 2022 - 26:35

Episode 50

Rising Troublemaker


May 16, 2022 - 29:59

Episode 49

O-T Fagbenle: Becoming Barack


April 29, 2022 - 24:40