Skip Intro with Krista Smith

Skip Intro with Krista Smith works in the space between entertainment journalism and personal archive. The show is built around extended conversations with people connected to Netflix projects, but the episodes rarely stay pinned to a single title for long. A new release becomes the doorway. What follows is often a wider look at how a performer, creator, or public figure carries a career, a trauma, a collaboration, or a reputation through time. The register is polished and familiar, with the interviewer often drawing on years of Hollywood proximity and old conversations in crowded rooms. That history matters. It lets guests move past canned answers into stories about preparation, nerves, ambition, creative risk, and the odd afterlife of famous work. Brad Falchuk’s conversation turns toward death, interviewing, presence, and the ethics of giving people room to speak. Charlie Hunnam’s episode uses Monster: The Ed Gein Story to think about isolation, postwar dread, true crime, and why human monsters replaced gothic ones onscreen. Elizabeth Smart’s episode is heavier, centered on survival, shame, advocacy, faith in other people, and the decision to keep telling a painful story. Other episodes lean toward craft and movie memory. Matt Damon revisits Good Will Hunting and the suddenness of becoming one half of “Matt and Ben.” Kate Winslet discusses Goodbye June, directing, family logistics, and the long hesitation before stepping behind the camera. Josh O’Connor brings a lighter current, from frog ponds and festival life to comic timing in Wake Up Dead Man. Billy Crudup’s conversation moves through New York theater, Tom Stoppard, Lincoln Center, Jay Kelly, and stage work as a lifelong practice. Laura Dern’s episode folds Jay Kelly into a broader meditation on cinema, midlife, parents, work, and the fear of missing one’s own life. The show’s strength is its mixture of access and attentiveness. It is celebrity conversation with research under it, but also room for digressions that reveal how artists think when they are not just selling the next thing.