Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 447th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporters Awards Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a singer,

songwriter and actress who has been working professionally since the age of 7. First

shooting to prominence as the star of the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place,

ran from 2007 through 2012, and the frontwoman of the band Selena Gomez and the scene,

which was active from 2008 through 2012. By her teens, she had become one of the world's

biggest celebrities, the first person to accumulate 100 million followers on Instagram,

where she now has 270 million, thanks to a solo recording career which was skyrocketing,

and an on-again, off-again relationship with another equally famous young music artist.

Now in her 20s, she has increasingly done work in both of her professions,

which has earned her the sort of praise and respect she always craved. She has to her name

three solo albums, all of which reach number one on the Billboard 200, and eight singles which

broke into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including one which hit number one,

2020's Luzzyu to Love Me. She has worked with top-tier filmmakers ranging from Harmony

Corinne to Jim Jarmish to Woody Allen, and she now finds herself in serious contention

for a best actress in a comedy series Emmy nomination for her work on the first season of a Hulu

comedy series on which she stars opposite Steve Martin and Martin Short, only murders in the building.

One of times 100 most influential people in the world in 2020, and someone described by Rolling

Stone in 2021 as quote, one of the most influential pop culture icons of our time, close quote,

Selena Gomez. Over the course of our conversation, the 29-year-old and I discussed how a

girl from Texas wound up in show business in the first place, and what her experience of child

stardom was like, how she sought to rebrand herself after her years on the Disney Channel,

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