SXSW Preview + Hot List: Blake Lively, Jenna Ortega, Michelle Obama, Matthew McConaughey & More Coming To Austin
deadline.comUsually, it’s the films that are loud at SXSW in Austin, however, this year a parade of personalities in the City of the Violet Crown will be creating plenty of thunder including Blake Lively, Jenna Ortega, former First Lady Michelle Obama, Disney Co-Chairman Alan Bergman, Amazon and MGM Studios Head Jennifer Salke, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Conan O’Brien fresh off the Oscar Dolby Theatre stage.
There’s an intriguing amount of sitdowns here at SXSW this year, clearly rivaling the number sidebar chats at a San Diego Comic-Con and certainly towering those at this past year’s Sundance where the best chats were off-menu, and not contained in any program: Elvis Mitchell’s conversations with Bill Murray and Quentin Tarantino.
In a Déjà vu to Comic-Con, O’Brien will be on stage twice, once in a Sunday comedy event with Robert Smigel and another on Tuesday, March 11 talking up the next phase of videogames with President of Blizzard Entertainment Johanna Faries.
At one end of the festival you have Lively making a fierce public appearance in the face of her very public legal battle with It Ends With Us’ Justin Baldonifor the world premiere of her Amazon MGM Studios movie Simple Favor 2 which opens the fest tonight.
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