Drama Actress Roundtable by Victoria Will for The Hollywood Reporter November 22, 2021

In this year’s six participants on The Hollywood Reporter’s Actress Roundtable were: Jessica Chastain, star and producer of Michael Showalter’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye, in which she resurrects the infamous televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker; Kirsten Dunst, who brings to life a 1920s remarried mother tormented by her brother-in-law in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog; Jennifer Hudson, who channels Aretha Franklin in Liesl Tommy’s biopic Respect; Emilia Jones, who portrays a hearing child of deaf parents in Sian Heder’s CODA; Kristen Stewart, who inhabits Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer; and Tessa Thompson, who plays a 1920s Harlem housewife reconnecting with an old friend passing as white in Rebecca Hall’s Passing.