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Dìdi Is the First Great MySpace-Era Coming-of-Age Movie
The brilliant comedy-drama brings a grip of late-aughts signifiers—AIM chats, Facebook wall posts, Verizon Ringback Tones, Warped Tour bands—to the big screen in the most painfully accurate and hilarious way possible. Director Sean Wang tells GQ what it took to recreate an oft-overlooked period for his first feature film.
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How The Acolyte’s Manny Jacinto Brought Sexy Back to Star Wars
“I think baby oil goes a long way,” the Sith Lord heartthrob tells GQ about turning the internet’s collective knees to jelly. “Baby oil and wet hair.” With The Acolyte’s first season all wrapped up, Jacinto talks training for those breathtaking fight scenes, what he learned after getting cut from Top Gun: Maverick, working with Lindsay Lohan on Freaky Friday 2, and what he hopes to do in season two.
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Can Mike Amiri Build the Next Global Luxury Fashion House?
Driven by doubters, the American designer has written a rare American success story on the international stage.
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Saltburn's Barry Keoghan on Flirting With Jacob Elordi and Manifesting Stardom
He’s one of our most exciting actors—a combustible shape-shifter onscreen, a moon-howling dynamo off it. And he spent the last couple years achieving his Hollywood aspirations at an absurd clip. Now, Barry Keoghan is confronting a rather novel dilemma: deciding which dreams to manifest next.
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Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley Has Been on One Hell of a Ride
In an intimate, wide-ranging conversation, the veteran rocker opens up to GQ about nearly dying from COVID in September, what it was like dating Paris Hilton and Avril Lavigne, and why Sum 41 is breaking up after three raucous decades.
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Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Now 80, the legendary director is on one of the most creative runs of his career— and consumed by the challenges (and opportunities) of all that he has left to do.
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The Beautiful Mind of Gael García Bernal
The Y Tu Mamá También star has carved out an enviable career by choosing challenging, brainy roles that poke at orthodoxy. Next, he'll play a legendary queer luchador in Amazon Studios' Cassandro, which is already generating Oscar buzz.
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Ben Shelton's Big Break
With a big serve and an even bigger stage presence, the 20-year-old American stole hearts (and more than a few matches) at the US Open. Next up: superstardom.
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DeAndre Hopkins Will Let His Hands Do the Talking
At 31, with a new team and a revamped regimen, the all-decade wide receiver is ready to remind the league of his greatness.
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The New King of College Football
Caleb Williams has already won a Heisman, resurrected a storied USC program, and become a highly paid pioneer in this newly lucrative era of college sports. Why would he ever want to leave school?
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Josh O’Connor on Working with Zendaya and Living Out of a Van
The British actor is already earning buzz for his sexy, swaggering role in the forthcoming tennis drama Challengers—this, after he snagged awards as a buttoned-up young Prince Charles on The Crown. So, what’s the young breakout star doing living the van life?
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Andy Roddick’s Open Era
Twenty years after winning the US Open, Andy Roddick has thrown away his trophies and moved on with his life. But in a rare interview, the last American man to win a grand slam reflects on that historic triumph—and all the pressure, fame, failure, love, and loss that came after.
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Harmony Korine’s Hi-Tech Vision for the Future of Movies
As Hollywood wages war over the future of movies, Harmony Korine and a gang of video game designers and AI artists are holed up in a house near Mar-a-Lago building it.
Style
How Alton Mason Became the World’s Only Male Supermodel
In an industry that still treats many male models interchangeably, one has transcended mannequin status to reach the heights of the fashion world. But he doesn’t plan on staying put for long.
Culture
Lil Uzi Vert Is Ready to Cook
The notoriously shy rapper went to rehab, stopped caring about clothes, and proceeded to release Pink Tape, one of the weirdest, most exciting albums of the summer.
Style
How to Get Sporty & Rich Quick
“I think if you’re not aspiring to anything, then what’s the point?” Hanging with sometimes-controversial streetwear entrepreneur Emily Oberg on the eve of her first store opening in New York.
Style
Meet the Only American Tailor in London’s Most Storied Bespoke District
Just a few blocks from Savile Row, a young Californian named Matthew Gonzalez is turning out Ivy League sack suits and Western denim shirts using the finest British craftsmanship.
Culture
Benny Safdie Steps into the Spotlight
Along with his older brother Josh, he’s written and directed some of the most demented, stress-inducing films of the past 10 years. (See: Uncut Gems.) Now with a major role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the younger Safdie is taking on an exciting new challenge: becoming a beloved actor.
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It's Always Sunny in Glenn Howerton's Brain
He made his bones doing some of the most demented comedy on television as Dennis Reynolds. And now with a breakout dramatic role in this summer's BlackBerry that has critics raving, Howerton suddenly finds himself on the precipice of a new kind of stardom.
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The Man Who Broke Bowling
Jason Belmonte’s two-handed technique made him an outcast. Then it made him the greatest—and changed the sport forever.