Watch: 'Actors on Actors' Series Returns with Our Favorite Queer Hunks

Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 2 MIN.

Variety's "Actors on Actors" series returns for season 19 this year just in time for the Oscars.

As reported by Variety, four episodes will debut Jan. 11 on PBS SoCal, with encores on KCET and public television stations across the country and the WORLD Channel. And of course, all episodes will stream on pbssocal.org.

Included in this year's lineup is two of our favorite queer hunks, Colman Domingo ("Rustin," "The Color Purple") and Andrew Scott ("All of Us Strangers"), who have both been garnering Oscar buzz.

See the complete list of actors and their pairings below:

Margot Robbie ("Barbie") & Cillian Murphy ("Oppenheimer")

Robert Downey Jr. ("Oppenheimer") & Mark Ruffalo ("Poor Things")

Emily Blunt ("Oppenheimer") & Anne Hathaway ("Eileen")

Halle Bailey ("The Little Mermaid", "The Color Purple") & Rachel Zegler ("The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes")

Emma Stone ("Poor Things") & Bradley Cooper ("Maestro")

Colman Domingo ("Rustin," "The Color Purple") & Jacob Elordi ("Priscilla," "Saltburn")

Carey Mulligan ("Maestro") & Michael Fassbender ("The Killer")

Jeffrey Wright ("American Fiction") & Taraji P. Henson ("The Color Purple")

Greta Lee ("Past Lives") & Andrew Scott ("All of Us Strangers")

Annette Bening ("Nyad") & Julianne Moore ("May December")

Natalie Portman ("May December") & Paul Mescal ("All of Us Strangers")

Alden Ehrenreich ("Fair Play," "Oppenheimer") & Da'Vine Joy Randolph ("The Holdovers")

"I'm so excited that 'Actors on Actors' – the most prestigious franchise of awards season – will be returning with one of our biggest lineups yet," said Variety Co-Editor-In-Chief Ramin Setoodeh. "These conversations will truly be the talk of the internet as we roll them out over 12 days, starting on Dec. 4 and on PBS SoCal in January."

Will you be watching? Variety's "Actors on Actors" series has won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2019 and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award this year.


by Emell Adolphus

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