This episode of Awards chatter is brought to you by Universal Pictures Wicked, now nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, Cynthia Arrivo, best supporting actress Ariana Grande, and Best Picture Musical or Comedy.

Forbes hails Wicked as a triumph of cinema, and Variety calls it a musical masterpiece.

The American Film Institute has included Wicked as one of their top ten films of the year,

and the National Board of Review awarded it Best Director, John M. Chu, and Best Picture of the Year.

Wicked, now playing in theaters.

Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 564th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today has been a screen

actress for 40 years and is best known for two bona fide classics.

1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, in which she plays Jeannie Bueller, a high school student

who is the sister of the title character, and is driven crazy by what he gets away with,

and 1987's Dirty Dancing, in which she plays Frances Baby Houseman, a 17-year-old daddy's girl vacationing

with her family and the Catskills in the summer of 1963, who meets and begins dancing with

an employee at the resort at which they are staying. Now, at the age of 64, after a rollercoaster

last few decades, she has added a third classic to her resume.

Jesse Eisenberg's new dromedy, a real pain, in which she plays a woman who is part of a group touring Holocaust-related sites in Poland.

Jennifer Gray.

Over the course of a conversation at the LA offices of the Hollywood Reporter, Gray reflected

on what it was like growing up as the daughter of the Oscar-winning actor Joel Gray, how she was

deemed too Jewish-looking for roles in films like Flash Dance and how this sort of thing

impacted her self-esteem moving forward, why her memories of the making and phenomenal reception of

dirty dancing are mixed up with less happy memories, and how the film failed to have the impact

on her career that she expected it would, what the ensuing decades were like for her,

and why the opportunity to be a part of a real pain was so meaningful to her personally and professionally, plus much more.

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