Variety’s ‘Actors on Actors’ Earns Daytime Emmy Nomination

By Jordan Moreau

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Variety has earned another Emmy nomination for its “Actors on Actors” series, but the first at the Daytime Emmy Awards.

The PBS SoCal series brings together two actors for a candid conversation about their recent roles and thoughts on Hollywood. The nominated season includes interviews with actors promoting their TV projects including: Bill Hader (“Barry”) with Jason Bateman (“Ozark” and “Arrested Development”), Michael B. Jordan (“Fahrenheit 451”) with Issa Rae (“Insecure”), Sharon Stone (“Mosaic”) with Debra Messing (“Will & Grace”), Jonathan Groff (“Mindhunter”) with Maggie Gyllenhaal (“The Deuce”), J.K. Simmons (“Counterpart”) with Edie Falco (“Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders”), and Jeff Daniels (“Godless” and “The Looming Tower”) with Laura Linney (“Ozark.”)

“” has previously won two Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, out of a total of five nominations.

“Actors on Actors” is nominated in the special class series category alongside “Close Up With the Hollywood Reporter,” “
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Light in the Water,” “
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Quiet Heroes,” and “
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