That’s the beauty of Hollywood. We live at a comfortable remove from life and death, i.e., from reality, and we like it that way. I saw them shortly…
Read more How Cazzie David Got in Touch With Her Animal InstinctsINT. WRITERS ROOM – DAY An empty conference room in Burbank, California. Four laptops face each other on a table, each running a different large language model. CHATGPT serves…
Read more Grok and Company Write the Next Sopranos: A Story of WALL-Es in the Writers RoomIt is still very much Lautner’s own. The spiral staircase down to the primary suite, and the staircase down another level to the pool on its own deck,…
Read more Nicolas Ghesquière Invites Vanity Fair Into His California ChâteauOn this October day, Sennott is supposed to be editing the finale of I Love LA, which marks her directorial debut—the capstone of an eight-episode series about mourning…
Read more With ‘I Love LA,’ Rachel Sennott Takes Her Place as Hollywood’s Reigning ZillennialYou mentioned writing songs with a bridge. In general, your songs are really well structured. How do they come together? I always start with a verse or a…
Read more Sombr Is a “Pop Star, Apparently”—and Even He’s SurprisedWhat about Hunter Schafer as Jules? Hunter was an artist. She is an artist, and there’s a sensitivity that she has that lends itself to be an incredible…
Read more If Casting Whiz Jennifer Venditti Scouts You, Just Say YesThe Formula 1 champ and F1 producer on shifting gears, working with Brad Pitt, and why he’s not racing to direct a movie just yet. Wisdom Iheanyichukwu Source…
Read more Lewis Hamilton’s Not-So-Fast, Not-So-Furious Road to HollywoodVanity Fair: Now that Stranger Things is ending, you get to stop being nervous that you’ll accidentally spoil something. Does keeping plot secrets weigh on you at all?…
Read more The Strange Education of Sadie SinkThe Stranger Things producer and Deadpool & Wolverine director still can’t quite believe he got tapped to make a new Star Wars movie, starring Ryan Gosling. Rebecca Ford…
Read more On the Set of ‘Star Wars: Starfighter,’ Shawn Levy’s Inner Child Is “Losing His Mind”Photographer Norman Jean Roy 7:27PM PT HOLLYWOOD Jimmy Kimmel Who better to cap off our 37 hours in Hollywood than Jimmy Kimmel, back at his studio revisiting a…
Read more Live From Hollywood With Jimmy Kimmel, Dakota Johnson, Lewis Hamilton, Sadie Sink, and 17 Other Power PlayersIt’s such a wonderful, weird, witchy little magical place,” Dakota Johnson says. She’s happily ensconced in the bohemian offices of TeaTime Pictures, the production company she launched with…
Read more Dakota Johnson and Producing Partner Ro Donnelly Are in a “Constant Fight” to Be Taken SeriouslyI don’t mean to make this a thing about misogyny. I actually thought the Emmys were great. But anytime I watch a performance that I feel was a…
Read more Nikki Glaser Might Just Be Really Great at Being a Movie StarTerminator 2: Judgement Day was revolutionary for its use of CGI. The villain in the film, the T-1000, was envisioned by Cameron as a form of liquid metal…
Read more How James Cameron Convinced Leonardo DiCaprio to Make ‘Titanic’But in moments like that Palm Royale scene, Gerber is also forging a new trail. Crawford drew crickets when she tried to launch an acting career with the…
Read more Kaia Gerber Says Acting Means “Accepting and Exploring Embarrassment”Niko Argento believes it’s what’s on the inside that counts. He believes this because he is in the business of curating bespoke immortality for the chronically rich and…
Read more Niko Argento, the Blood Concierge—Yes, Blood Concierge—to the Stars, Shares His SecretsPapps previously served as News Corp Australia’s Los Angeles correspondent from 2004 to 2006, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor and the LA Lakers were enduring the breakup of…
Read more Rupert Murdoch’s Last Hurrah: Conquering Hollywood With the ‘California Post’The director heard Gellar’s concerns, and yet, Zhao says, “I think we chose each other in that moment.” “No one knows Buffy better than Sarah Michelle Gellar…and that’s…
Read more Chloé Zhao Talks ‘Hamnet,’ Reviving ‘Buffy,’ and Navigating Hollywood as a “Deeply Neurodivergent” DirectorJeremy Allen White is not a brooding native son of Chicago, a misconception many have due to his Emmy-winning performance in The Bear. (He grew up in Brooklyn’s…
Read more Will the Real Jeremy Allen White Please Stand Up?“May I leave my contortionist skills at the door and speak from the heart? May I not conceal or reframe my anger, but share it so as to…
Read more Kristen Stewart Lets Loose in Fiery Speech: Hollywood Is “In a State of Emergency”