PanelistS

Quinta Brunson

EP/Actor

William Stanford Davis

Actor

Chris Perfetti

Actor

Tyler James Williams

Actor

“I’m inspired a lot by what is happening with actual schools. I learned about many schools going into malls — it happened here [in L.A.], actually, with the fires. A school where a friend of mine worked, they wound up in an old Sears because their school burned down…”

Panelists

Jonathan Glatzer

Showrunner/

Writer/EP

Billy Magnussen

Actor

“We screened it in Silicon Valley for these tech titans, and they were like, ‘Wow you guys kind of nailed it.’ They all kept saying, ‘I know who that person is. I know who that is.’ And we were like, ‘No it’s really you.’ ”

Panelist

Riz Ahmed

Creator/

Showrunner/EP/

Actor

“All the incredible geniuses, teachers, mentors who shepherded me through my first experience showrunning. Whether or not we get to make Bait again, I‘d love to keep that family with me.”

PanelistS

Eric Kripke

Showrunner/EP

Jessie T. Usher

Actor

Karen Fukuhara

Actor

John Koyama

2nd Unit Director/
Supervising Stunt Coordinator

“We didn’t necessarily plan on it, but for [the show] to reflect the world in the period that we’re living in so specifically — this intersection of authoritarianism and celebrity and social media and fascism — you spend your whole career trying to chase, trying to hit the zeitgeist, and it’s going to be really hard to do it again”

PanelistS

Michael Waldron

Co-Creator/

Showrunner/EP

Glen Powell

Co-Creator/

EP/Actor

Perry Mattfeld

Actor

“I think [the show is] universal, oddly enough. Everyone has regrets. Everyone has a moment they would just like to do over. This is watching somebody get that moment and how they deal with it, however flawed the character may be and all of that.”

Panelist

Carrie Preston

Actor

“I have a little break now, and then the fact that we get to do 20 more [episodes], we get to explore 20 more worlds in New York City means we get to have 20 more amazing guest stars.”

Panelists

Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Showrunner/EP

Lisa Joy

Director/EP

Aaron Moten

Actor

Kyle MacLachlan

Actor

Frances Turner

Actor

“I think coming out of Season 1, we were so excited to see what would happen when Lucy, the most moral character in our show, and the Ghoul, the most immoral character, were paired up and which of them would rub off on the other more.”

PanelistS

Johnny Knoxville

Host

Michael Heyerman

EP

“Oh my God — snakes, fine; spiders, fine. I don’t care about heights. But the communal bathrooms in the house, it gives me anxiety.”

Panelist

Richard Gadd

Creator/Writer/
EP/Actor

“I like to be across everything. I mean, it’s all-consuming. … And as a showrunner, I like to be across every creative decision — everything from the look, tone, feel, the way it’s shot, all the way to the shoes the character wears.”

Panelists

Myha’la

Actor

Marisa Abela

Actor

Kit Harington

Actor

“I think that we all really try and gnaw on the bone of this show. And I think that that’s what people responded to … and I think the show has gotten better and better.”

Panelist

Andy Muschietti

Creator/Director/EP

“I had read this book many, many decades ago, and it was very close to me and very close to my heart. And there’s so many stories in that book that I couldn’t possibly cover in two movies.”

PanelistS

Jake Szymanski

Director/EP

Nicholas Hatton

EP

Todd Schulman

EP

“I think [viewers] sense that our hero is getting something out of this experience. And then when they get to the end, it’s like, oh, there’s a sense of relief ultimately that they had a good time. Because if they didn’t, then I think everyone would feel not great about that as a viewer.”

PanelistS

Stephen Kay

Director/EP

Billy Bob Thornton

Actor

Andy Garcia

Actor

Sam Elliott

Actor

“Taylor [Sheridan’s] shows normally will have a vibe, and this has several — emotion and humor and drama and absurdity and danger, all those different things. I think the variety on it appeals to people.”

PanelistS

Ben Thursby-Palmer

Showrunner/EP

Ariana Madix

Host

“Yes, [the show is] fun and it’s sexy and it’s bright colors and it’s flashy, but by the end of the summer, I’ve fallen in love with like, 10 to 15 to 20 people, and getting to watch them have this best summer of their lives and open themselves up to me, the world, all of us, is really a gift.”

Panelists

Eva Anderson

Co-Showrunner/
Writer/EP

Matthew Tinker

EP

Nick Offerman

Actor

Mirren Gordon-Crozier

Costume Designer

“To be cast as [Elle Fanning’s] dad and that happened because I had a baby with Michelle Pfieffer, I’ve had worse gigs.”

Panelists

David Farr

Creator/EP

Georgi Banks-Davies

Director/EP

Stephen Garrett

EP

Tom Hiddleston

EP/Actor

Diego Calva

Actor

“Right now, I feel the deep weight of doom of stress about it because I’m the one who has to actually do the writing of the damn thing. It’s a huge challenge. It’ll be very exciting. And it won’t take as long as the last one, I promise.”

PanelistS

Julianne Nicholson

Actor

Shailene Woodley

Actor

Thomas Doherty

Actor

Enuka Okuma

Actor

“The writing is so extraordinary. Dan [Fogelman] and his writers, it’s some of the best writing that I’ve ever been able to kind of breathe life into. And so our job is really to just kind of submit to what’s on the page and be present.”

PanelistS

Alison Tatlock

Writer/EP

Rhea Seehorn

Actor

Karolina Wydra

Actor

Skip Macdonald

Editor

“It was a couple months later that I got that first script and I think I had the experience that I presume a lot of the audience members did, which is like an insane rollercoaster ride.”

Panelists

David Stassen

Showrunner/EP

Mindy Kaling

EP

Ike Barinholtz

EP

“The fact that we can get peak Kate — this is a woman who will bring you to tears in a breakup scene but then will also walk into a glass wall, happily. She does everything, and it really to me is an incredible showcase for Kate Hudson who we are all obsessed with.”

Panelists

Liz Patrick

Director

Ashley Padilla

Actor

Marcello Hernández

Actor

“My mom is a very scary woman, and she doesn’t let me complain or get nervous or anything like that. So I just kind of take it one day at a time and try to work hard so that I don’t regret [anything] later.”

PanelistS

Donald Faison

EP/Actor

Sarah Chalke

EP/Actor

Zach Braff

EP/Actor

“Obviously to work with your best friends on a show that you love going to work everyday is a gift to do once in a lifetime, so to be able to do it again was insanely lucky. So yeah we’d love to do another.”

PanelistS

Debby Romano

Casting Director

Neil Goldman

Writer/EP

Michael Urie

Actor

Sarah Lucky

Editor

“To extend it any more might feel a little bit like we were trying to draw a little bit of water from a stone, especially with respect to the fact that [creator Bill Lawrence] always makes the joke that if we came back for Season 4 and Jimmy was still upset about his wife dying, we’d all be like, ‘All right, get over it.’ ”

PanelistS

Phil Lord

EP

Chris Miller

EP

“[We] didn’t want to do something that’s part of some giant web of interconnected series. It’s just its own little jewel of a story. It’s a big jewel. By little, I mean an enormous jewel. It’s the Hope Diamond of television.”

PanelistS

Brad Ingelsby

Creator/
Showrunner/
Writer/EP

Tom Pelphrey

Actor

“As soon as I read Task I felt I understood Robbie in my soul. It really doesn’t happen often, but when it does you think uh-oh I have to do this now, I won’t be able to sleep tonight if I can’t do this.”

Panelists

Seth MacFarlane

Creator/Writer/

Director/EP/

Actor

Alanna Ubach

Actor

“[Another season] really is up to to Peacock with their, you know, vast amounts of big Scrooge McDuck money that they dive into every day.”

Panelists

Bruce Miller

Creator/

Showrunner/EP

Chase Infiniti

Actor

Lucy Halliday

Actor

Ann Dowd

Actor

“There’s a lot of friction there at the start definitely between Agnes and Daisy that was really fun to get to play. I think especially when you like someone in reality, getting to pretend you despise them is so much fun.”

Panelists

K.J. Steinberg

Creator/

Showrunner/EP

Monica Lewinsky

EP

Grace Van Patten

Actor

“We really need to understand the how of [the case]. It wasn’t a whodunnit. It was a howdunnit and a whydunnit. How did this innocent girl from Seattle end up in this position and why did we come to believe it?”

PanelistS

Destin Daniel Cretton

Creator/

Director/EP

Andrew Guest

Creator/EP

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Actor

“This was a risk creatively for Marvel and I think it was one they reexamined during the strike. It’s been this underground project that the people at Marvel believed in.”

PanelistS

Hero Fiennes Tiffin

Actor

Dónal Finn

Actor

Zine Tseng

Actor

“Guy [Ritchie] brings the spontaneity and fun to it, so as much as he can give you lots of dialogue or change scenes, weapons two minutes before we shoot — you always rather do what he wants on the day because it’s just always better.”