We Don't Always Agree — Red Carpet Realities Podcast Episod

Sterling K. Brown is one of the most decorated actors in the modern era of prestige television and film — a three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, Golden Globe winner, Academy Award nominee, Screen Actors Guild Award winner, NAACP Image Award winner, and Time 100 honoree whose accolades include the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of prosecutor Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, the Emmy and Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Randall Pearson in This Is Us — making him the first African-American actor to win the Golden Globe in that category in the award's 75-year history — and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for American Fiction. His career spans Broadway, regional theater, Black Panther, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Paradise, and a body of work that has established him as one of the most versatile and most recognized actors of his generation.

Ryan Michelle Bathé is a Stanford-educated actress, producer, and co-founding voice of We Don't Always Agree whose career spans Boston Legal, This Is Us, First Wives Club, The Endgame, and a series of television and film roles that have established her as a formidable creative presence in her own right — distinct from and complementary to the extraordinary public profile her husband's career has generated. She and Sterling met as college freshmen at Stanford, have been married since 2007, and have built an eighteen-year partnership that is the specific human context from which We Don't Always Agree draws its most compelling authority.

We Don't Always Agree is an Indian Meadows production in partnership with ABF Creative — recorded at the Blackbird House Flagship in Culver City, California — a podcast hosted by one of Hollywood's most genuinely compelling couples whose premise is specific and whose execution is exactly as advertised. The show's subjects — relationships, race, religion, body image, money, cancel culture, Black identity, generational wealth, faith at work, and the full range of topics that the Black American experience at the intersection of celebrity, family, and contemporary culture generates — are addressed through the specific lens of eighteen years of marriage between two Stanford-educated, highly accomplished, deeply thoughtful people who have real disagreements about real things and are willing to have those disagreements publicly in a format that is simultaneously entertaining, personally revealing, and culturally substantive. The show was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Podcast in the Lifestyle and Self Help and Society and Culture categories.

The Red Carpet Realities episode is a specific and naturally compelling subject for a show hosted by one of Hollywood's most prominent couples — the unfiltered conversation about what the red carpet experience actually involves for the people who navigate it most regularly. For the audience that follows Sterling K. Brown and Ryan Michelle Bathé, the red carpet is a highly visible, highly curated public presentation of a life they can observe from the outside but whose internal experience — the preparation, the pressure, the politics of who attends alongside whom, the specific anxieties and negotiations that precede the photographs — is almost entirely opaque. An episode hosted by people who have attended more significant Hollywood events than almost anyone in their audience, and who are willing to be honest about what that experience is actually like rather than performing the aspirational version of it, is the specific combination of access and candor that distinguishes We Don't Always Agree from entertainment journalism and gossip media.

VID produced the video component of the Red Carpet Realities episode with Video Producers Dallin Nead and Brenden Blackham and Director of Photography Paulo Martinez — the professional production infrastructure that gives We Don't Always Agree the visual quality that matches the ambition and the talent of its hosts and that allows the video version of the episode to extend the podcast's reach across YouTube and social media platforms where the visual format serves the show's audience in ways that audio alone cannot.