{"id":41762,"date":"2026-05-02T12:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/?p=41762"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:17:43","slug":"2026-tcmff-dana-delany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/interviews\/carpet-chat\/2026-tcmff-dana-delany\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 TCM Classic Film Festival Carpet Chat with DANA DELANY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7XeengR-WS0?si=lDgYjfZoCT60pVd3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>BEHIND THE LENS was on the Opening Night \u201cGreen\u201d Carpet for the 17th Annual TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL for a Carpet Chat with actor DANA DELANY.\u00a0 And what an interesting chat it was!\u00a0 Dana is always so insightful about cinema and its thematic evolution.<\/p>\n<p>With this year&#8217;s theme of &#8220;The World Comes to Hollywood\u201d, as more than 100 years of cinema has shown us, the world not only came to Hollywood, but founded it as America\u2019s shores welcomed immigrants who went on to become some of the most legendary figures in cinema history, both in front of and behind the camera, telling their stories, dreaming of new ones, breaking technological ground and helping shape the world in which we live. 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