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Little Gold Men
Jacob Anderson Loves Doing “Insane” Things on Interview With the Vampire—Including That Wild Finale
“There’s a version of this show that is very stoic and takes itself too seriously, and I don’t think any of us ever wanted to make that show,” says the star of AMC’s hit vampire series. “And thank God!”
By David Canfield
Here: Robert Zemeckis’s New Movie Spans a Century, but the Camera Never Moves
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite the Forrest Gump team for a drama set entirely in one household’s living room.
By Anthony Breznican
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Jodie Comer Knew Her Bikeriders Accent Would Be Polarizing: “She’s Lost Her Mind!”
The Emmy winner tells Vanity Fair why her bold performance in the acclaimed film required taking a big risk. - Little Gold Men
Jessica Lange, Living on the Edge: “What Would It Take to Teeter Off That High Wire?”
The Oscar-winning icon speaks about her remarkable spring on screen and stage, and why she feels more liberated as an actor than ever. - Little Gold Men
8 Brilliant Underdogs That Most Deserve Emmy Nominations This Year
From the unhinged chaos of the best Real Housewives franchise to the career-best work from industry veterans Zahn McClarnon and Carla Gugino, we implore the Television Academy to keep their eye on this group of contenders. - little gold men
Why Bo Burnham Turned Down John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in LA
Mulaney breaks down his fascinating talk show experiment, from his favorite segment to potentially doing a second season in a new city (but only if “everybody was there”). - Little Gold Men
Predicting the Big Winners at This Year’s Tony Awards
On this week’s roundtable episode of the Little Gold Men podcast, the panelists discuss Broadway’s biggest night, when a play with music just might outshine all the musicals. - Little Gold Men
How Jonathan Bailey Juggled Wicked With Fellow Travelers: “It Was Fame From the Waist Down”
The Bridgerton breakout on his busiest season yet, costarring with Matt Bomer in a groundbreaking queer love story, and the spot where two very different characters intersect: “Tim, if he’d been born 60 years later, may have played Fiyero in the school production of Wicked. And he would have loved the shiny boots.” - Little Gold Men
After Nearly 30 Years Onscreen, The Bear’s Liza Colón-Zayas Found Her Breakout
The Bronx-born stage and screen veteran on bonding with Philip Seymour Hoffman, facing years of rejection, and the pandemic-forced turning point that brought her to this moment.
First Looks 📽
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Inside Sing Sing, the Colman Domingo Prison Drama That Will Break Your Heart
Domingo may be headed back to the Oscars for his incandescent performance in A24’s innovative film, where he stars opposite several formerly incarcerated men. - Awards Insider!
Kevin Hart, Taraji P. Henson, and Samuel L. Jackson Bring a True Story to Wild Life in Fight Night
Peacock’s dynamic new limited series examines how an infamous heist changed the city of Atlanta forever—and reintroduces Hart as a dramatic leading man. - Cannes Film Festival
Ben Whishaw on Giving the Riskiest Performance of His Career in Limonov. The Ballad
“I have no idea what this is going to be,” he tells Vanity Fair of his mammoth portrayal of a radical Russian activist. Here, an exclusive first look at the bracing result. - Cannes Film Festival
Inside the “Mind Fuck” of David Cronenberg’s Grief Drama The Shrouds
Inspired by the death of Cronenberg’s wife, the film is rooted in the director’s experience of loss. For actors Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger, that made for an uncanny, emotional, and at times plain bizarre experience. - Cannes Film Festival
In The Apprentice, Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong Peer Into the Dark Heart of Donald Trump
Before Trump was Trump, he was a young striver taken under the wing of Roy Cohn. The Apprentice dramatizes their sinister bond: “I think of it as a love story, really,” Strong tells Vanity Fair. - Awards Insider Exclusive
Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone Run Wild in Poor Things Follow-Up Kinds of Kindness
Plemons’s initial reaction to Yorgos Lanthimos’s new movie: “Oh my God. What?” - First Look
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: An Exclusive First Look at the Director’s Retro-Futurist Epic
Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel scan the horizon, and Coppola explains his sprawling influences for the utopian drama.
2024 Election
Debate 2024: All the Highlights From the First Biden-Trump Showdown
The current and former president clashed on a host of policy issues, but Democrats are panicking over the president’s performance.
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Hacks Creator and Star Paul W. Downs Has His Head in the Game
What’s the secret to the Hacks multihyphenate’s success? It’s simple, says Jean Smart: “He comes across as just likable.”
By David Canfield
Reunited
Elizabeth Debicki Felt Like an “Australian Baby” When She Met Tom Hiddleston
The Emmy nominees revisit The Night Manager as they return to the awards conversation with The Crown and Loki.
By David Canfield
Royals
All the Highlights From Trooping the Colour 2024
Trooping the Colour, which celebrates King Charles’s birthday, featured Kate Middleton’s first royal appearance in months.
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Larry David on Ending Curb Your Enthusiasm and Staying True to His Roots
“We have our fans, and they don’t want us to be politically correct,” David tells Vanity Fair. “They don’t care about wokeness.”
By David Canfield
Shot List
How Expats Defied Visual Expectations From Its Very First Shot
“When you have Nicole Kidman as your star, generally the studio wants you to show her face right away,” director Lulu Wang tells Vanity Fair. She had another idea.
By David Canfield
Reunited
Renée Elise Goldsberry Has Followed in Christine Baranski’s “Phenomenal Footsteps”
At very different stages in their careers, Baranski and Goldsberry starred together on CBS’s The Good Wife. Years later, the two Tony winners reflect on their parallel paths as actors before and since.
By David Canfield
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Chloë Sevigny and Josh Lucas on Career Struggles, Method Acting, and Making American Psycho
Twenty-five years after filming American Psycho, Sevigny and Lucas meet again as Emmy contenders—the former for FX’s Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, the latter for Apple TV+’s Palm Royale.
By David Canfield
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Jude Law: An Eras Tour
The two-time Oscar nominee reflects on his thrilling rise in Hollywood, the real reason he initially turned down The Talented Mr. Ripley, and his recent career turning point: “When there’s a whole herd of interesting, beautiful young men coming up, you’re trying to readjust.”
By David Canfield
Little Gold Men
Will Anything About This Year’s Emmys Surprise Us?
With Shōgun now ruling the drama races, Baby Reindeer has the limited-series field all to itself. But TV’s biggest night may offer up some big twists elsewhere.
By David Canfield
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Heh Heh: The Amazing Alchemy That Saved SNL’s Beavis and Butt-Head Sketch
Saturday Night Live’s cast and crew explain how host Ryan Gosling helped Mikey Day’s “white whale” of a sketch finally make it to air—and why, precisely, it broke Heidi Gardner.
By Donald Liebenson
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Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon on Big Little Lies Season 3, Their Hot New Projects, and Their “Lifetime” of Collaboration
The Oscar- and Emmy-winning stars reunite to dish on Big Little Lies’ past and future, as well as everything in between: “We’ve lived a life.”
By David Canfield
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Baby Reindeer Begins a Journey to Emmys Gold at Gotham TV Awards
“It’s weird that a show as messed up as this has gone on to strike a chord with so many people,” series creator-star Richard Gadd said at the inaugural event, which also honored Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Colin From Accounts.
By Savannah Walsh
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Jonathan Groff Didn’t Want to Spend 7 Years as a “Singing Teenager” on Glee
The Tony nominee and star of Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along takes a walk down memory lane, reminiscing about falling in love with Sondheim, his first days as an actor in New York, and why he turned down a starring role on Ryan Murphy’s musical series.
By Chris Murphy
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William Jackson Harper’s Wild, Wonderful Year on the New York Stage
The Good Place alum has hit a career high in back-to-back plays over the past 12 months—bringing him his first Tony nomination, and an opportunity to reflect on some tougher years in his journey as an actor.
By David Canfield
3 Body Problem Renewed By Netflix For Two More Seasons
The alien invasion saga from the Game of Thrones and True Blood producers will now get its conclusion.
By Anthony Breznican
Shot List
Inside Brit Marling’s Singular Directorial Vision for A Murder at the End of the World
The acclaimed actor and writer made her narrative directorial debut on the genre-subverting mystery, which featured both striking visuals and a rich thematic undercurrent. In the process, we meet a strikingly bold new director.
By David Canfield
Little Gold Men
Maya Rudolph Never Takes the Easy Route: “I Have No Interest in That in Life”
The Emmy winner on finding her Loot groove in season two, building a surprising career, and the legacy of her extraordinary run on Saturday Night Live.
By David Canfield
Reunited
When Marnie Met Desi: Girls Stars Allison Williams and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Reunite
The Bear and Fellow Travelers stars sit down for the first time in seven years to talk about making sweet music together on Girls, where their characters would be now, and being the original members of the Tortured Poets Department.
By Chris Murphy
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Seth Meyers Could Use a Drink, Especially If Trump Wins
The Late Night host on celebrating his show’s 10th anniversary, the double-edged success of “Seth Goes Day Drinking,” and why he once thought Trump hosting SNL was a good idea.
By Hillary Busis