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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
It’s hard to imagine, but initially Josh O’Connor turned down both of his biggest roles to date. First came The Crown in which he portrayed a young Prince Charles during the royal’s tumultuous marriage to Princess Diana. At the time, O’Connor doubted his ability to hold his own alongside the series’ esteemed cast. Yet his performance garnered universal praise, winning him an Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics Choice Award.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
If Nicholas Galitzine appears more swole than usual, it’s because he’s preparing for his first big action hero role as none other than He-Man in the upcoming Masters of the Universe. Having established himself as Hollywood’s go-to Prince Charming with his turns in Cinderella; Red, White & Royal Blue; and The Idea of You, Galitzine is now bracing for battle as the iconic Mattel doll from the 1980s.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
In Good One, Lily Collias stars as Sam, a teenage girl who embarks on a pivotal camping trip with her father and his friend in upstate New York. The coming-of-age drama, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, marks the feature debut of writer-director India Donaldson. Collias grew up in Santa Monica but didn’t pursue acting until she moved to New York City.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
“Do you have any idea the kind of risks a woman like me takes every time she agrees to have a little fun?” In Strange Darling, the twisted thriller directed by JT Mollner, a character identified only as “the Lady,” played by actor Willa Fitzgerald, delivers this line with a sultry kind of melancholy. She's sitting in a car next to “the Demon” (Kyle Gallner), a man with whom she's planning to have a one-night stand.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
Pamela Anderson is already an icon. She could easily have rested on that status for life, but the 57-year-old wanted more. So she put her head down, studied acting, and opened herself up to risks. In recent years, she has conquered Broadway with a run in Chicago, worked with artists like Alex Israel and Sara Cwynar, and overhauled her public image—emerging as a serious fashionista who confidently hits the red carpet without makeup.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
Since his feature film debut, in the 2017 indie drama Beach Rats, Harris Dickinson has proven his preternatural ability to convey raw, complex emotion on film. That talent is on full display in Babygirl, where he stars opposite Nicole Kidman in a bold exploration of power and intimacy. Directed by Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn, the story follows Romy Mathis (Kidman), a formidable yet sexually unfulfilled CEO who embarks on a complicated affair with her young, ambitious intern, Samuel (Dickinson).
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
Andrew Garfield has been remarkably candid about his experience of grieving the loss of his mother, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2019. So when he first read Nick Payne’s script for We Live in Time, the British star felt an immediate connection to its exploration of love and loss. Directed by John Crowley, the film follows Garfield’s Tobias and Florence Pugh’s Almut as they fall in love, build a life together, and confront the heartbreak of an untimely death.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
At this point in his career, it’s easy to forget that Nicholas Hoult got his start as a child star in 2002’s About a Boy. Now 35, the British actor has become a Hollywood mainstay, delivering standout performances in both indie dramas (see: Tom Ford’s A Single Man and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite) and blockbuster hits (Mad Max: Fury Road and the X-Men franchise).
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
Before Ryan Destiny took on the role of boxing champion Claressa “T-Rex” Shields in The Fire Inside, she had no interest in the sport. “I was not into watching people hit other people,” she tells W’s editor at large, Lynn Hirschberg. “It was hard for me to see the blood.” But that quickly changed when Barry Jenkins cast the now 29-year-old as the multi-title-winning athlete, the first female boxer to win two consecutive Olympic gold medals.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
wmagazine.com | Lynn Hirschberg |Mert Alas |Marcus Piggott |Sara Moonves
For Danielle Deadwyler, all roads lead to the theater. The Atlanta native honed her craft on the stage before making a name for herself in film and television with standout roles in Station Eleven, P-Valley, and The Harder They Fall. After captivating audiences with her breakthrough—and heartbreaking—performance in 2022’s Till, Deadwyler has now, in a sense, returned to the theater with The Piano Lesson.
