Stephen Amell ‘Didn’t Really Know Anything’ AboutSuitsPrior to Auditioning forSuits LA(Exclusive)

Stephen Amell.Photo:Trae Patton/NBC Trae Patton/NBC Stephen Amellnailed hisSuits LAaudition despite having never watched the original show. The 43-year-old actor tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that he “didn’t really know anything” aboutSuitsprior to auditioning for the lead role of Ted Black in the new NBC spinoff series. “I had seen that famous scene where Harvey [Gabriel Macht] hires Mike [Patrick J. Adams] in the pilot — it just randomly it came up on my YouTube feed or Instagram.

Stephen Nedoroscik Is 'Blind' in Bright Light and 'Scared' to Drive. How the Pommel Horse Hero Competes (Exclusive)

Stephen Nedoroscik at the 2024 Paris Olympics; with Rylee Arnold on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ on Nov. 26, 2024.Photo:Tim Clayton/Corbis/Getty Images; Eric McCandless/Disney Tim Clayton/Corbis/Getty Images; Eric McCandless/Disney Stephen Nedoroscikremembers how hard it was being a kid who couldn’t toss a football with friends. Diagnosed at birth with two eye conditions, the Team U.S.A. Olympic gymnast always had trouble judging distances and seeing in bright light. “In the sunlight, trying to catch a football with no depth perception, you can imagine how difficult that would be,” he tells PEOPLE.

Stephen Park Revisits Racist Incident onFriendsThat Prompted 1997 Open Letter: 'It Did Not Feel Safe to Say Anything'

Steve Park in ‘Friends’ and in 2023.Photo:NBC; Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty NBC; Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Actor and comedian Stephen Park is looking back on what he describes as a “toxic environment” he experienced on the set ofFriendsin the ’90s and the racist incident that led him to write anopen lettercalling out Hollywood’s marginalization of Asian American actors. Park, who also guest-starred in a 1998 episode ofBoy Meets World, joinedDanielle Fishel,Rider StrongandWill Friedleon theirPod Meets Worldpodcast where the hosts asked him about his 1997 “mission statement.

Sterling K. Brown on the Shocking Twist inParadise's Premiere Episode: 'I Forgot Who I Was Dealing with' (Exclusive)

Sterling K. Brown on ‘Paradise’.Photo:Disney/Brian Roedel Disney/Brian Roedel Warning: this story contains spoilers from the first episode of Hulu’sParadise. In the new series, which dropped its debut episode early on Sunday, Jan. 26, Brown plays secret service agent and single father of two Xavier Collins, who becomes the leading suspect in the investigation of the shocking murder of President Cal Bradford (James Marsden). The premiere episode follows Xavier as he discovers the president’s body and quietly starts to investigate the murder on his own before it’s revealed that Xavier, and the rest of his counterparts, are living in an highly controlled underground bunker.

Sterling K. Brown Says He Would Be 'Beyond Flattered' to Be PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive (Exclusive)

Sterling K. Brown attends Hulu’s ‘Paradise’ FYC event at the Saban Media Center on March 7, 2025.Photo:Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Sterling K. Brownwould be “flattered” to be deemed the Sexiest Man Alive!TheParadisestar, 48, caught up with PEOPLE at an FYC event for the Hulu series in Los Angeles on Friday, March 7, and shared what it’s like to see so much support for his latest project — as well as what a Sexiest Man Alive title would mean for him personally.