Eight spectacular stars—including Idris Elba, Andrew Garfield, and more—cover this year’s Hollywood Issue.
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Kristen Stewart & More Cover Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue
A spotlight on eight shining stars—including Nicole Kidman, Simu Liu, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, and more—who are breaking boundaries, thrilling audiences, and inventing the movieland they want to live in.
Benedict Cumberbatch doesn’t dodge tough questions—in fact, he raises some of the thorniest ones himself. Over a long outdoor breakfast at the Malibu Racquet Club, we’re preparing to discuss two of the most significant films of his career, Spider-Man: No Way Home and The Power of the Dog, both of …
On a crisp December evening, Idris Elba rescued a group of men—from embarrassment. The night had taken a turn for the worse for the young chaps after they were denied entry to a hot London club. But Elba happened to be walking by the venue, where he and his friends are regulars, and chatted with …
Kristen Stewart is not going to play it cool. “Everyone wants to win an Oscar, you know?” she says. She’s looking at me through rose-colored glasses, glowing in the California sun. Her face is sharp and delicate, like a marquise-cut diamond, framed by blond strands near-black at the roots. Her dog, …
Andrew Garfield is ready to talk—about the admirable work of his older brother, a pulmonary specialist in London; about the awe-inspiring experience of seeing New Yorkers take to the streets in the wake of George Floyd’s murder; about the pain of losing his mother, Lynn, to cancer in 2019; about …
“I’m just a regular, shmegular girl,” says Michaela Jaé Rodriguez. Her pedigree would beg to differ. In 2021, Rodriguez became the first trans woman to earn an Emmy nomination in a lead acting category for her work as Blanca on the groundbreaking FX series Pose. In 2022, she added another pivotal …
Waughhhh!” Nicole Kidman lets out a nasally wail, her face stretched into exaggerated, comic pain, her body covered in bandages, and her weight supported by Javier Bardem. She’s acting twice over, playing Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo to Bardem’s Desi Arnaz as Ricky, in Amazon Studios’ Being the …
Winding down after a long cover shoot, Penélope Cruz sits back like she’s got it all figured out. She’s returned to the hair-and-makeup chair to deglam, her In-N-Out cheeseburger sitting patiently on the nearby counter. Colleagues pop in to hug her and say their goodbyes. She’ll soon return home to …
There’s a charming pugilist’s persistence to the way Simu Liu parries any question into an excuse to say something nice about his coworkers. He tells me Phillipa Soo, his costar in the upcoming rom-com One True Loves, has “one of the best voices I’ve ever heard.” Working with SNL writer Celeste Yim …
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