Garrett Hedlund
Traditionally, there’s only one golden-boy megastar a decade—in the Seventies, Sixties icon Steve McQueen handed the blond baton to Robert Redford, who, in the Eighties, passed it to Brad Pitt. While...
View ArticleEmily Browning
The love interest is not a role Emily Browning ever hopes to land. “It’s just so boring—it kind of makes me feel a bit ill,” says the 22-year-old Australian actress, who’s best known for her...
View ArticleLéa Seydoux
“No one pushed me into acting,” insists Léa Seydoux, nervously tapping her elegant fingers. Born into not one but two French film dynasties (she counts Pathé and Gaumont studio bosses among her...
View ArticleStephanie Sigman: On the Verge
In the first shot of Miss Bala, the just opened Mexican thriller from the director Gerardo Naranjo, the camera pans across aspiring beauty-pageant queen Laura Guerrero’s bedroom wall: a collage of...
View ArticleStriptease: Leading Man Michael Fassbender Bares It All
“From the start of my career, I’ve been naked,” Michael Fassbender said with a laugh. He was sitting cross-legged on the floor of his hotel room in downtown Manhattan, tearing into a breakfast of...
View ArticleI Am Liz, Hear Me Roar
Growing up, I rarely thought about Elizabeth Taylor—and never in the context of feminism, which I discovered in high school, thanks to Ms. magazine. By the late seventies, Taylor’s important films...
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Fight Like A Girl
It was the summer of 2009, and Gina Carano neither looked nor felt much like an action star. Though she’d been the face of women’s mixed martial arts for several years, the fighter had just suffered...
View ArticleThomas Middleditch Is a More Traditional Nerd
HBO’s Silicon Valley, which won a Critics’ Choice Television Award for best comedy series, is set in a company town—one ruled by geeks-turned-billionaires. It’s a weird, insular, paranoid culture that...
View ArticleJussie Smollett Is Not Jamal
There is no shortage of talented musical performers on Fox’s hip-hop opera Empire, but few of its stars have as much invested in the drama’s catchy jams—the soundtrack went to No. 1 on Billboard’s 200...
View ArticleMark and Jay Duplass Get Together
As television trends ever soapier and more plot-packed and over-the-top, it could be argued that the most emotionally affecting shows are no longer the big-ticket prestige dramas but the modest,...
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