Barry Jenkins Hasn’t Let Go Of ‘Underground Railroad’ Yet [Interview]

Barry Williams is opening up about how he navigated life as an adolescent all while playing a teenage boy on the popular sitcom "The Brady Bunch." The actor, 66, recently appeared on "Today Extra" and spoke of the challenges of growing up not only in the public eye but on camera for the entire world to see as he starred on the ever-popular family show. "The years were very intense years for me," Williams recalled on the Australian morning talk show.

Growing up “Brady” wasn’t always easy.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe very first sonic reference director Barry Jenkins sent to composer and frequent collaborator Nicholas Britell for “The Underground Railroad,” the epic 10-part Amazon series, was a cryptic audio message of a drilling sound.A few hours later, Britell received another text from Jenkins making sure the previous sample had been received, and that’s when the composer knew his mission.

R.F. Terry The heartbeat of the ensemble propels “The Underground Railroad,” Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins’ sumptuous 10-episode Amazon Prime Video series set in the pre-Civil War America.As a boy, Jenkins imagined an underground train network taking enslaved people to freedom.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorA look at the world building through the eyes of production designers.

Diedre Johnson The Amazon original series “The Underground Railroad” centers around Cora, a young Black woman fighting to escape slavery. When Cora leaves, she encounters a fantastical vision of mid-19th century America, where the underground railroad is a real train running from state to state through tunnels — and each “station” brings its own promise and peril.Cora carries a burden: As a young girl, she was abandoned by her mother, who escaped and vanished.

Back in September, we were able to exclusively report that Steven Soderbergh has more ideas for “The Knick” and that he’s working with Barry Jenkins and actor André Holland to bring those to life. A little while later, Soderbergh spoke about what those plans might be and what the future of “The Knick” was originally going to look like.

Tony-award winner Phllipa Soo, Simu Liu and Luke Bracey are set to star in the adaptation of the Taylor Jenkins Reid’s One True Love, with Andy Fickman on board to direct. Taylor Jenkins Reid and Alex Jenkins Reid will adapt the script.

NEW YORK -- “Malibu Rising,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)Taylor Jenkins Reid is not afraid to challenge herself with her writing.In 2015's “Maybe in Another Life," she wrote about two parallel universes, documenting the resulting path of a character's choice in alternating chapters.

EXCLUSIVE: It may be erroneous to call the melding of rapper Tablo, Scooter Braun’s SB Projects, Emmy nominee Jason Kim and Amazon a K-pop supergroup. However, the quartet certainly are embracing the genre, if not the notion.

Bob Verini At a time of unprecedented interest in sorting out America’s tortured racial past, Amazon Prime Video’s “The Underground Railroad” offers a unique contribution to the conversation. The adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller tells the saga of Cora, a runaway, and her dogged pursuer, bounty hunter Arnold Ridgeway, through a blend of uncompromising realism and otherworldly imagery.

EXCLUSIVE: Sherri Shepherd (30 Rock), Mike Manning (Days Of Our Lives), Jonny Beauchamp (Katy Keene), and Ashleigh Murray (Riverdale, Katy Keene) are set to star in The Way Out, an indie drama which is being written and directed by Barry Jay, who is the founder of the popular Barry’s gym franchise.

When you talk about the best film composers working today, you always hear about those legendary folks like John Williams and Hans Zimmer. Yes, they are two people that will undoubtedly go on the Mt.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed the renewed controversy surrounding Martin Bashir’s 1995 interview with Princess Diana, Chris Cuomo advising his brother during Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment scandal and a preview of TheWrap’s upcoming series, Conversations on Cancel Culture.Then, we’re joined by Jeremy Helligar and NPR’s TV critic Eric Deggans to discuss Barry Jenkins’ new Amazon series, “The Underground Railroad.” Is the series too violent? And is it suitable

If social media is any indication, the fact that Thuso Mbedu had 1.3 million Instagram followers even before her U.S. breakthrough role in The Underground Railroad was even released should point to the arrival of a fully formed star.

Jordan Rose Hip-hop has grown from a party in a South Bronx basement to a global soundtrack over its 47-year run.

Barry Jenkins turns to television for his latest project, a 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, Starring Thuso Mbedu, which hit Amazon Prime Video last week. It’s his most ambitious project yet, set on a grander canvas and with much greater emotional stakes than anything he’s tackled before.

Barry Jenkins’ acclaimed TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,, William Jackson Harper plays Royal, a freeborn man who helps a runaway slave named Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu) as she goes on a harrowing journey through the antebellum South to find freedom by way of an underground network of trains, tracks and tunnels. “I just figured this is the kind of job that goes to other people,” Harper tells ET about coming off four years of, where he earned an Emmy nomination for