David Letterman interviews Damon and Roberts in seventh Netflix series
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Netflix has confirmed that David Letterman’s “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” will return later this year for a seventh season, featuring long-form interviews with Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel and climber Alex Honnold. The renewal extends one of the streamer’s established nonfiction interview series, whose sixth season is currently nominated for an Emmy.
The programme has aired 31 episodes across six seasons, alongside four specials, and has previously hosted figures including Barack Obama, Jay-Z, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Billie Eilish. It has received eight Emmy nominations and won one in 2024; Damon is promoting “The Odyssey”, while Honnold recently completed Netflix’s live “Skyscraper Live” climb.
- Letterman’s Netflix interview series returns for a seventh season.
- Damon, Roberts, Kimmel and Honnold are confirmed guests.
- The show has won one Emmy from eight nominations.
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David Letterman is a US television presenter best known for hosting late-night chat shows for more than three decades. Since leaving his nightly programme in 2015, he has made My Next Guest Needs No Introduction for Netflix, using longer interviews that often cover guests’ lives, work and public roles.
The series features people from entertainment, politics, sport and other fields. Past guests have included former US president Barack Obama, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, musician Jay-Z and singer Billie Eilish, reflecting the show’s mix of celebrity and current-affairs conversations.
Matt Damon and Julia Roberts are prominent Hollywood actors, while Jimmy Kimmel is a US late-night presenter. Alex Honnold is an American climber known for climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan without ropes, a feat documented in the film Free Solo.
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Originally published by Variety as “David Letterman to Interview Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and More in ‘My Next Guest’ Season 7”.