Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 599th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the most impressive actresses of her generation.

Shining in films like 1993's Dazed and Confused,

1995's Party Girl, and Kicking and Screaming, 1996 is the Daytrippers, 1997's The House of Yes,

and a quartet of films from Christopher Guest, 1996 is Waiting for Guffman, 2000s Best in Show,

20003 is a Mighty Wind, 2006 is for your consideration,

and 2016's mascots, as well as TV programs, including Louis in 2012, 2012, 22's The Staircase,

and most recently, in 2025, the third season of Mike White's HBO drama series, The White Lotus,

on which she played Victoria Ratliff, a wealthy, self-medicating Southern woman on vacation in Thailand

with her financier husband and their three kids, and for which she is currently nominated for

the best supporting actress in a drama series Emmy Award,

the great Parker Posey.

Often likened to Catherine Hepburn in the sense that she is totally unlike anyone else,

seems totally comfortable in her own skin, and moves seamlessly between comedy and drama,

Posey has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle in 1997 as the first actress to

emerge as a household name on the basis of independent films. By Time Magazine, also in 1997,

as the Queen of the Indies, and by the New Yorker in 2012, as the greatest character actress

of the last few decades. In 2002, just as the indie film boom from which she emerged began to wane,

film comment declared, more than anyone else, Parker Posey embodied independent film itself.

In 2002, just as the indie film boom from which she emerged began to wane,

film comment declared,

more than anyone else, Parker Posey embodied independent film itself.

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