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2 days ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
When multihyphenate Broadway diva Whitney White first conceived of her latest project, Macbeth in Stride, she had one goal. “I’m trying to surf the wave of Black feminine embodiment as I experience it,” she told me the day after the show’s opening night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Raja Feather Kelly, the production’s choreographer, chimed in from Montreal, where he was already hard at work on another project.
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1 week ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Jenna Ortega |Ary Russell
It’s not exactly “mommy mode,” but when Natalie Portman greets a jittery Jenna Ortega on Zoom, she immediately puts her younger costar at ease with the effusive warmth that comes naturally to a seasoned actor—and mother of two. At 43, Portman, who divorced her husband last year, is keeping busy. She just wrapped shooting The Gallerist alongside Ortega, and ignited a bidding war when she signed on to star in Lena Dunham’s Good Sex.
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1 week ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Brandon Sklenar is a chill guy—he spent the pandemic in a bungalow, tripping on mushrooms and writing music. He’s also a bit of a daredevil, doing all his own stunts on 1923, the Taylor Sheridan–created Western that made him a star.
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3 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve featured playlists from DJ Koze, Eli Roth, and Benny Blanco. This week’s edition comes all the way from sexy and sweaty Miami with DJ and producer Pressure Point. A founder of the black queer collective Masisi, Pressure Point’s Haitian ancestry brings a fresh queer Caribbean mix to the local house scene.
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3 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
“We’ve been touring for years, and we look awful now,” drummer Ryan McMahon proclaimed on a couch next to his bandmates. The rest of Inhaler, the Irish band made up of guitar player Josh Jenkinson, bass player Robert Keating, and lead singer Eli Hewson, all nodded in agreement. When they called us from Houston, the boys had been put through the wringer, as Keating confessed that codeine had helped them, survive a number of sick-day performances.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
For next-gen Hollywood, the starlet has become a multi-hyphenate. After the success of production companies like Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap, a whole generation of rising young stars have taken it upon themselves to wear multiple hats at once. Enter Camila Mendes and Rachel Matthews, who founded the production company Honor Roll. I myself started bb² earlier this year. For all of three of us, it was our second time premiering films at the festival.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Heartworms, Benny Blanco, and 9mice. This week’s installment comes from Toronto-based songstress Saya Gray, who’s just come off the release of her third studio album, SAYA.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Benny Blanco, 9mice, and Lexee Smith. This week’s installment comes from the London-based musician Heartworms, aka Jojo Orme, who’s currently making her way across Europe on tour.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
SATURDAY 8:16 PM FEBRUARY 22, 2025 HELL’S KITCHEN“I might be a little bit famous, but at the end of the day I’m still your local drag queen,” exclaimed Nick Gaga, clad in a black sequin ensemble, on stage at the Balcon Salon on Saturday night. But before she ever graced our Instagram feeds as the world’s premiere Lady Gaga impersonator, she was just a young kid with dreams of leaving her native Russia.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Since parlaying a bad bout of insomnia into the hit podcast In Your Dreams, Owen Thiele has cameoed in Sabrina Carpenter’s A Nonsense Christmas, bagged a starring role in FX’s coming-of-age comedy Adults, and gotten the greenlight from Amazon for a semi-autobiographical series, Off Color. But what does the 28-year-old Angeleno think about screen time, self-tapes, and Cybertrucks? Let’s find out!———GREEN ROOMS“I think of my high school production of 12 Angry Men. I was the 13th man. The stand-in.
