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Leslye Headland on Why ‘Bachelorette’ Is Not a ‘Bridesmaids’ Rehash
It’s hard to say who’s the hottest mess in Leslye Headland’s feature debut, Bachelorette. In the raunchy comedy, three unhappy singles reunite in Manhattan on the eve of their friend Becky’s nuptials,...
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Mykki Blanco on His Origins, Queer Rap, & Homophobia in Black Culture
The press has been quick to lump Mykki Blanco in with the recent surge of boundary-smashing artists emerging in the hip-hop scene, but the Harlem-based drag punk-rapper and poet finds that sort of...
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Paloma Faith on Major Label Success, Love Songs, & Lessons From Prince
Her look may be a blatant nod to classic silver-screen vamps like Mae West and Marilyn Monroe, but British retro-pop singer Paloma Faith has a vision of love that’s all her own. “It’s not all about...
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‘Girls’ Star Christopher Abbott on Season 2, Sex Scenes, and Love Stories
Last year, Christopher Abbott was relatively unknown, performing on Broadway with Ben Stiller in The House of Blue Leaves and sharing brief screen time with Elizabeth Olsen in the Sundance hit Martha...
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Icona Pop on Waging a Pop War, Celebrity Crushes, and That ‘Fuck It’ Feeling
Sparks flew when fashion plates Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo first met at a house party in 2009. “You know when you get a friend crush? It was like that—love at first sight,” Hjelt recalls. What began...
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Ssion on Pop Stardom, Lady Gaga, Being a Queer Artist
Singer and visual artist Cody Critcheloe started Ssion (pronounced “shun”) when he was a teenager growing up in Kentucky. Roughly 15 years later, what began as a straight-up punk band has evolved into...
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Meet Sarah Gadon, Cronenberg Muse & Struggling Artist
Sarah Gadon snagged her first plum role last year as the wife of Michael Fassbender’s Carl Jung in David Cronenberg’s slow-burning psychodrama, A Dangerous Method, and this year, she’s honing her craft...
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Brooklyn MC Joey Bada$$ Lays Out His Plan for World Domination
On his recently released debut mixtape, 1999, Joey Bada$$ achieves that rare feat in rap music: he manages to pile on the boyish braggadocio while still exhibiting an unpretentious appreciation for the...
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R&B Breakout Autre Ne Veut on ‘Anxiety,’ the Future of Music, and His Last...
Anxiety, the second album from Brooklyn-based musician Arthur Ashin—aka Autre Ne Veut—is a lot of things: the first proper studio release from a guy who, when he wasn’t working on his graduate degree...
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Doldrums on the Psychological Choice to Make Art, Not Money
If listening to Airick Woodhead’s bizarre brand of blippy, tribal chaos-pop elicits images of some mind-bending underground art-rave, that’s because the 23-year-old, Montreal-based bohemian immersed...
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Meet Rhye, the Mysterious Men Behind ‘Woman’
When Robin Hannibal tapped Mike Milosh to remix a song for his electro-soul project Quadron, Hannibal was so blown away by the results that he invited Milosh to lay down some tracks together. Milosh,...
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Jake Abel on ‘The Host’ and Flubbing His Edward Cullen Audition
“Preparation is one thing, but planning is something an actor should avoid,” says Jake Abel, explaining how he found his calling while taking acting classes at the Charleston Stage theater in South...
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‘The Host’ Star Boyd Holbrook Is Poised for a Breakout Year
In 2001, Boyd Holbrook was building theater sets in his native Kentucky when a friend snapped his photo and sent it to a modeling agency. Within a year he was on catwalks in Milan and Paris, and soon...
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Jane Levy on ‘Suburgatory’ and Surviving the Punishing ‘Evil Dead’ Shoot
Hell, we’ve been told, is relative. For Tessa, Jane Levy’s character on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory, it’s Chatswin, the affluent small town her father forces the New York teen to relocate to in the hope...
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Olga Kurylenko, From the Moscow Subway to ‘Oblivion’
“I wouldn’t go for the blue pill,” says London-based Ukrainian bombshell Olga Kurylenko of The Matrix’s famed tablet, which offered blissful ignorance over its reality-facing red counterpart. “I’d go...
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Bar Paly on ‘Pain & Gain,’ Arm Wrestling The Rock, & Eating Whatever She Wants
For her role in Michael Bay’s new action flick, Pain & Gain, 24-year-old Bar Paly was given the sort of instructions that few Hollywood actors—let alone model-actors ever hear: “Eat whatever you...
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Jeremy Allen White on ‘Shameless’ and Why He’ll Always Choose the Ass Shot
Among a cast of characters that has included a sex addict, an agoraphobe, a meth-cooking granny, and a deranged wastoid father, the part of the bad-boy genius sounds rather quaint. But as Lip, the...
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Katie Chang on ‘The Bling Ring’ and Nerding Out Over Sofia Coppola
“Ice queen. Manipulative. Bitch in charge.” That was the character sketch Katie Chang was given when she flew to L.A. to audition for the lead role in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, a movie based on a...
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Meet Antje Traue, ‘Man of Steel”s Scene-Stealing Psycopath
Antje Traue knows pain. “I once had a root canal without anesthesia,” says the Berlin-based actor. “I said, I don’t know what’s coming, so let’s just start without it and see how far we can go.” Today...
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Melonie Diaz on the Harrowing Experience of Making ‘Fruitvale Station’
Fruitvale Station, director Ryan Coogler’s film based on the true story of the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant, proved to be a watershed for 29-year-old actor Melonie Diaz. The native New Yorker wasn’t...
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