Ary Russell

3 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell

Sipping on an Erewhon smoothie over Zoom, the actress Leisha Hailey posed a tantalizing question to her best friend and former co-star Kate Moennig: “Can we surprise each other after all these years?” Considering the pair have practically been joined at the hip since the first time they met at auditions for The L Word, perhaps not.

3 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell

In 1972, a decade before her acting career took off, Anjelica Huston sat down with her friend Berry Berenson for her first of four Interview covers. Yes, she was Hollywood royalty, but at 21, the model was living her best bohemian life, drifting between fashion shoots, late nights at the Chelsea Hotel, and the kind of trouble that made New York City a magnet for misfits and muses. Ahead of her latest role, in the John Wick spinoff Ballerina, she looks back on a time when anything felt possible.

4 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell

WEDNESDAY 9:58 PM MAY 28, 2025 EAST VILLAGEThere are a few things you can count on when attending a ball hosted by the one and only Qween Jean: drag, death drops, and dismantling corruption. Despite all of her success in theatre, the renowned costume designer has never let the recognition distract from the community that has supported her, so she created the Black Trans Liberation, an organization that moves to end homelessness amongst Black and trans people in New York City.

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell

On a video call all the way from London, the British pop star Rachel Chinouriri reflected on her upbringing as a young Black girl at an all-white school. “Maybe I’m a bad bitch and they were a little bit scared,” she said. Now, Chinouriri is strutting her stuff on stages all over the world—in her knee-high socks, sequin tank tops, and the miniest of mini skirts. But it wasn’t always easy.

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell

After a period of loss, doubt, and disillusionment, British rapper Little Simz is doing what she does best—turning it into music. Lotus, her sixth album, is both a reckoning with the industry’s toll and a release from its grip. To break it all down, the North London native, born Simbiatu “Simbi” Ajikawo, got on a Zoom with I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel, a fellow Brit who understands firsthand the alchemy between poetry and pain.