Annette Bening, the admired veteran actress, reflects on breaking into Hollywood with 'The Grifters' and 'Bugsy', standout roles in films like 'The Kids Are All Right' and '20th Century Women', and her challenging role as swimmer Diana Nyad in 'Nyad'. They also discuss her parents' influence and the making of 'American Beauty'.

Annette Bening shares details about her new film 'Nia', her physical training, and working with Jodie Foster. She discusses meeting Warren Beatty, parenting advice, and iconic projects like 'American Beauty'. Annette also makes her TV cooking debut with a comfort dish.

Explore reflections on childhood experiences and the impact of films, collaboration with actors, financial management tips, emotional highs and lows of the Oscars, challenges of dialects and character creation, struggles and uniqueness of dyslexia in memorizing scripts, Canadian comedy talent, visual aesthetics in film creation, themes of love and betrayal, music evolution, and home-based music creation.