Hollywood Reporter – The Drama Roundtable

Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Dennis Quaid and newcomer Corey Stoll dish on the season’s top contenders, embarrassing moments and the lines (“My name is Inigo Montoya”) and gags (six degrees of who?) that they’ll never escape.

The gathering of six actors on an early April afternoon in Hollywood felt less like professional duty and more like group therapy.

The performers — Kevin Bacon, 54 (Fox’s The Following); Jeff Daniels, 58 (HBO’s The Newsroom); Mandy Patinkin, 60 (Showtime’s Homeland); Dennis Quaid, 59 (CBS’ Vegas); John Slattery, 50 (AMC’s Mad Men); and Corey Stoll, 37 (Netflix’s House of Cards) — shared and commiserated like old friends (and with equal parts happiness and horror) as they dissected the terrible auditions, egotistical outbursts, bizarre fan interactions and ongoing fire in their bellies for the craft that’s landed them in the Emmy race.

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