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Gail Berman on her interest in making female-oriented shows (including All-American Girl and Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Gail Berman on her interest in making female-oriented shows (including All-American Girl and Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

On growing up in Long Island and Philadelphia; on her early interest in theater; on attending the University of Maryland and moving to New York after college; on how she came to produce the original production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

On why and how she transitioned to television after working in theater; on her work for the Comedy Channel and the show The Sweet Life, meeting Maggie Lear, and later meeting Maggie's father, Norman Lear

On moving to California and how she came to work for Sandollar Television; on how her role at Sandollar evolved; on executive producing All-American Girl

On why she wanted to adapt Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a television show and how she got the adaptation made with Warner Bros. while she was at Sandollar; on the possible Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot at Hulu and on the legacy of the show

On her interest in female-oriented shows; on how Angel came about; on when and why she left Sandollar; on her work developing Malcolm in the Middle while at Regency Television, and on Doug Herzog ultimately wanting to make it; on the casting and legacy of the show

Gail Berman on sending in a script for Here Come the Brides when she was a child

On the film Older than America; on being in the play Three Little Birds and working on it with her son; on receiving the Order of Canada; on the Alberta Tar Sands and how businesses have changed her community's environment; on being involved in the environmental movement and protesting in Washington, D.C. with Margot Kidder; on stepping back from her involvement in the environmental movement

On working on the film Eden and learning about the sex trade world from that job; on what she learned about the police and the dismissed investigations of missing women while doing Unnatural and Accidental; on her approach to voiceover work and the differences between doing voiceover for narration and animation projects; on working in an all-Indigenous production of King Lear and the other Shakespeare roles she would be interested in doing

On the series Blackstone, on being in the film Down Here; on her role in Mohawk Girls; on comparing the pacing between television and movie productions; on working on the play The Rez Sisters; on working on Longmire and her character, "Marilyn"

On working on the film Falls Around Her and the limitations of working with an indie film budget; on having to take on different languages at the start of her career and how that has changed over time; on working on Through Black Spruce; on "pretendians" who pretend to be Indigenous; on her character in Godless; on her frustrations with non-Indigenous writers not fully understanding Indigenous culture; on how the value of Indigenous women and responsibility to the earth have been diminished

Tantoo Cardinal on doing voiceover work for some of Ken Burns's documentaries

Tantoo Cardinal on being in Blackstone

Tantoo Cardinal on working on Mohawk Girls

Tantoo Cardinal on working on Longmire

Tantoo Cardinal on being in Godless

Tantoo Cardinal on why writer Chong Kim chose her to play the nurse in Eden and Kim's insight on how women and girls in the sex trade were kept on reservations

Tantoo Cardinal on doing voiceover work for some of Ken Burns's documentaries

Tantoo Cardinal on working with Lou Diamond Phillips on Longmire

Tantoo Cardinal on working with Julia Jones on Longmire

Tantoo Cardinal on working with Darlene Naponse on Falls Around Her

Tantoo Cardinal on the film Through Black Spruce being based on Tina Keeper's mother's story, and the backlash the film received because the story was written by a pretendian

Tantoo Cardinal on how Buffy Sainte-Marie misrepresenting herself as Indigenous took away from the careers of Indigenous people

Tantoo Cardinal on how Sylvia McAdam's work exposed how history has diminished the value of women in Indigenous culture

Tantoo Cardinal on stepping in for Tina Keeper's role in Mohawk Girls

Tantoo Cardinal on getting arrested with Margot Kidder while protesting the environmental movement in Washington, D.C.

Tantoo Cardinal on doing voiceover work and how it compares to acting on set

On how doing voiceover work for narration projects differs from animation projects

Tantoo Cardinal on how being an older Indigenous woman felt limiting, and how freeing her role in Falls Around Her was for her