In The Envelope: An Awards Podcast

Superstar Hailee Steinfeld had the biggest of big breaks at age 13, when she earned an Academy Award nomination for the Coen brothers’ “True Grit,” opposite Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. Her thriving career ever since, both as an actor and singer-songwriter, is the result of a childhood obsession with playing other people—and, with her family’s support, managing realistic expectations. “Every time I walk onto a set for the first day I feel like I know nothing,” she reveals. “And I hope that feeling never goes away.” An Oscar nominee for “True Grit” and a Golden Globe nominee for “The Edge of Seventeen,” Hailee has taken on a wide variety of roles in the last decade, starring in “Ender’s Game,” “Romeo and Juliet,” the “Pitch Perfect” movies, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and “Bumblebee.” Her newest challenge is executive producing Alena Smith’s Peabody Award-winning comedy “Dickinson” from AppleTV+, and leading the series as a particularly irreverent Emily Dickinson. This episode is brought to you by Ap