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Interview: Emmy winner Regina King on joining The Leftovers Season 2

The Leftovers Season 2 premieres Sunday, Oct. 4 at 9/8CT on HBO. As Regina King waited to find out if John Ridley’s brilliant ABC anthology American Crime — which scored the actress her first Emmy  — would be renewed, she received a script from a pair of equally compelling storytellers. Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta hoped King would take a lead role in Season 2 of their family-centric HBO spine-tingler The Leftovers, which will further expand the story culled from Perrotta’s best-selling book. “I sat down and talked to them and they’re just so smart — and they want their actors […]

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We talk The Leftovers on HBO with star Justin Theroux

Imagine it. You’re in the midst of an ordinary day — at your job, at the mall, in your home, your car, an airplane — when 2 percent of the world’s population vanishes in an instant. No natural disaster. No terrorist attacks. No carnage. Just random empty spaces where people used to be — celebrities, political and religious leaders, your neighbor, your spouse, your child. And no one can explain it. How would you adapt? Who might you become in the aftermath? It’s the simple, stunning scenario at the heart of best-selling author Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel The Leftovers, which […]