Emmy contender web chats: Portraits of the TV stars who’ve stopped by to gab

While Emmy voters have the tough job of choosing which series and performances of this season’s Peak TV crop are deserving of a nomination, we here at The Times have it much better. We get to talk with the Emmy contenders in person, so there’s no narrowing it down for us! Here’s a look at who’s dropped in for a chat so far. You can also watch their interviews at latimes.com/emmychats.

Eric McCormack, star of “Will & Grace.”

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Elizabeth Olsen stars in “Sorry for Your Loss,” a drama from Facebook Watch.

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Elizabeth Olsen and Mamoudou Athie play a married couple in the grief drama “Sorry for Your Loss.”

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Kate Beckinsale, star of “The Widow” on Amazon Prime.

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Actress Lily Collins, star of the PBS “Masterpiece” adaptation of “Les Miserables.”

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Ken Jeong, star of “The Hangover” franchise, NBC sitcom “Community,” “Crazy Rich Asians” and other film and TV roles.

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Mireille Enos, who played Seattle detective Sarah Linden on “The Killing,” reunites with co-star Joel Kinnaman in a very different kind of thriller: “Hanna.”

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Anthony Carrigan is known for playing Victor Zsasz in the Fox series “Gotham” and Tyler Davies in the ABC series “The Forgotten.” He currently plays NoHo Hank in the HBO series “Barry.”

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Timothy Simons kept audiences in stitches as Jonah Ryan on the HBO political comedy “Veep.”

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Anna Chlumsky plays Amy Brookheimer of the HBO political satire “Veep.”

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Joey King, 19, star of Netflix’s “The Kissing Booth,” dives into a twisted true-life killing in Hulu’s “The Act.”

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In the BBC drama “Bodyguard,” Richard Madden plays a special protection officer tasked with keeping Britain’s home secretary safe.

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Sara Gilbert, star of “The Conners,” ABC’s spinoff from “Roseanne.”

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Cat Deeley has 14 seasons as host of “So You Think You Can Dance” and five Emmy nominations under her belt.

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Ralph Macchio still executes his martial-arts moves in “Cobra Kai,” the YouTube Premium sequel series to the iconic “Karate Kid.”

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Molly Shannon, star of Comedy Central’s “The Other Two.”

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Eric Bana, star of the true-crime series “Dirty John” on Bravo.

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Reid Scott winds down as Dan Egan on “Veep” as the HBO series ends its run.

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British actress and singer Carmen Ejogo played schoolteacher-turned-author Amelia Reardon on HBO’s “True Detective.”

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“Two and a Half Men” actress Marin Hinkle steps back into the world of 1950s stand-up comedy as Rose Weissman in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” on Amazon Prime.

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Jared Harris is known for his versatile work in “Mad Men, “The Crown” and most recently in the HBO miniseries “Chernobyl.”

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Rhea Seehorn plays dedicated lawyer Kim Wexler in “Better Call Saul.”

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Manny Jacinto plays lovable lug Jason Mendoza on “The Good Place.”

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Mark Hamill, known across the globe as Luke Skywalker from “Star Wars,” portrays Talus on the History Channel series “Knightfall.”

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Topher Grace, known for his roles on “That ‘70s Show,” “Spider-Man 3” and “Predators,” learned a lot about Ebola filming the NatGeo miniseries adaptation of “The Hot Zone.”

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Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar, long remembered as Zack Morris in “Saved by the Bell” and Det. John Clark Jr. in “NYPD Blue,” continues to expand his versatility.

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Trevor Noah, who brings the laughs on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” is just trying to keep up with day’s news like the rest of us.

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Andrew-Rannells stars in “Black Monday” which chronicles the 31st anniversary of the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall Street.

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Sharon Horgan’s comedy “Catastrophe” offers an unblinking look at matrimony and parenthood.

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Steve Zahn is downright giddy to talk about his role in “Valley of the Boom” about Silicon Valley in the 1990s.

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Michael Angarano is in a unique position on the NBC drama “This Is Us.” Although his character, Nicky Pearson, is alive during the multiple time periods the series covers, he does not portray the role at every age.

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Christina Applegate plays recent window Jen Harding in “Dead to Me.”

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Milo Ventimiglia talked about “This is Us” and of some of the secrets his character kept from his family.

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Adam Scott appeared in a CBS All Access The Twilight Zone episode called “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet.” The title of the episode, is a riff on one of the original show’s more famous episodes, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.”

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Matthew Macfadyen sat down with The Envelope and talked about some of his favorite lines in HBO’s “Succession” and how Tom is different from his role in “Howards End.”

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Christina Hendricks describes “Good Girls” as a real passion project.

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(L-R)- Justina Machado and Isabella Gomez star in Netflix-original comedy-drama “One Day at a Time.”

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Sanaa Lathan from the New CBS All-Access “ The Twilight Zone.”

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Anna Konkle from the comedy series, “PEN15” on Hulu.

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Timothy Hutton recently stared in “The Haunting of Hill House,” a supernatural horror web television series created for Netflix.

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Drew Tarver stars in “The Other Two,” a comedy series about follows two floundering millennial siblings who must grapple with their 13-year-old brother’s overnight fame.

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Justina Machado stars in “One Day at a Time” with her co-star Isabella Gomez.

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Jennifer Michelle “Ginnifer” Goodwin recently starred in “The Twilight Zone” developed by Simon Kinberg, Jordan Peele, and Marco Ramirez, based on the original 1959 television series created by Rod Serling.

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Ellie Kemper played the starring role in the Netflix comedy series “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” for which she has received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

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Isabella Gomezs stars in “One Day at a Time” with her co-star Justina Machado.

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Eric Lange, who stars in “Escape at Dannemora,” is photographed for the Los Angeles Times Emmy Contender Web Chats.

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Jane Krakowski is best known for the roles of Cousin Vicki in National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Jenna Maroney in the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, for which she received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

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Bobby Berk of “Queer Eye” is photographed for the Los Angeles Times Emmy Contender Web Chats.

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Father and son Eugene and Daniel Levy created Schitt’s Creek. The father and son duo discuss shooting the final season and why they’ll always have a soft spot for their Canadian fans.

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Linda Edna Cardellini is an American actress. In television, she is known for her leading roles in the teen drama Freaks and Geeks, the medical drama ER, the drama thriller Bloodline, and the dark comedy Dead to Me, a Dark Comedy’s Exploration Of Women Holding Each Other Up.

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Carol Kane became known in the 1970s-80s in films such as “Hester Street” (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and “The Princess Bride.” She was abcast member on the Netflix original series “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” in which she plays Lillian Kaushtupper.

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Michael Kelly, who stars in “House of Cards” and “Jack Ryan,” is photographed for the Los Angeles Times Emmy Contender Web Chats.

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Tituss Burgess is best known for starring as Titus Andromedon on the Netflix comedy series “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”

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Justin Hartley, who stars in “This is Us,” is photographed for the Los Angeles Times Emmy Contender Web Chats.

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Wanda Sykes’ new Netflix special “Not Normal,” has a long opening salvo that targets what the comedian recently called “the orange elephant in the room.”

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Calum Worthy, who stars in “The Act” is photographed for the Los Angeles Times Emmy Contender Web Chats.

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Maya Erskine from the comedy series, “PEN15” on Hulu.

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