“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